Table of Contents: September 2025

NBS’s monthly compilation of the latest business sustainability research prioritizes in-press articles, in order to highlight cutting-edge knowledge. The list draws from Financial Times Top 50 journals and other publications.

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Research for September 2025

Academy of Management Journal

• Multiverse Analysis to Advance Theory and Practice: Illustrating and Investigating Variability in CEO Gender Pay Inequality. Martin Götz, Christina Matz Carnes, Aaron D. Hill, Ernest H. O’Boyle.

• Special Research Forum—Our Transformational Era: Implications for Management and Organizations. Marc Gruber, Ann Langley, Quinetta Roberson, Georg von Krogh.

• Distributed Knowledge and the Creation of Public Value: Community-Based Organizing and Wildfire Management in Northern California. Devin Stein, Maria Minniti.

• Cross-Sector Relational Realignments after an Institutional Crisis: Checking the Instrumentalization of Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships. Marina A. B. Gama, Aline Gatignon.

• The Gendered Complexity of Sponsorship: How Male and Female Sponsors’ Goals Shape Their Social Network Strategies. Elizabeth Lauren Campbell, Catherine T. Shea.

Academy of Management Perspectives

• Contextualizing the Canon: Sociohistorical Change and the Future of Entrepreneurship Research. David A. Kirsch, R. Daniel Wadhwani, Friederike Welter.

• Strategic CSR Investment as a Response to Anticipated Employee Departures from Rivals. Rong Gong.

• Entrepreneurialism, Inequality, and Society: Organizational and Policy Implications. Robert Eberhart, Timothy Folta, Lisa Hehenberger, Jennifer E. Jennings, P. Devereaux Jennings, William Schulze, Tim Weiss.

• Corporate Engagement with Polarizing Morality Issues Conceptualization and Implications. Niels Selling, Florian Wettstein.

• Emplotting Climate Change: Rhetorical History and Imagined Accountability. Ziyun Fan, Yihan Liu, Daniel Nyberg.

• Navigating the Diversity–Unity Paradox in DEI Strategies. Salome Opoku, David A. Waldman, Patrick Wright.

American Economic Review

• Gender Differences in Financial Advice. Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Andreas Hackethal, Johannes Koenen, Christine Laudenbach.

• Immigration, Innovation, and Growth. Stephen J. Terry, Thomas Chaney, Konrad B. Burchardi, Lisa Tarquinio, Tarek A. Hassan.

• When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media. Leonardo Bursztyn, Benjamin Handel, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Christopher Roth.

• Managers and Public Hospital Performance. Pablo Muñoz, Cristóbal Otero.

• Politics at Work. Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto, Edoardo Teso.

Business and Society

• Towards Authentic Engagement with Indigenous Peoples: Lessons from Negotiated Agreements in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Julia Benkert, Robyn Eversole, Krzysztof Dembek.

• The Nexus Between Religiosity and Socioemotional Wealth in Family Firms’ Mergers and Acquisitions Decisions. Thomas M. Brunner-Kirchmair, Markus Dick, Eva Wagner, Helmut Pernsteiner.

• Competing Voices, Persistent Gaps: Shareholder Proposal Activism and ESG Decoupling. Eduardo Schiehll, Henrique Castro Martins, Krista B. Lewellyn.

• Blending Business and Philanthropy in the Data Economy: Insights from the Emerging Field of Data Philanthropy. Moritz Motyka, Benedikt Englert, Bernd Helmig.

• A Question of Time: Overcoming Temporal Tensions in Collective Indigenous Entrepreneurship Through Temporal Work. Maegan Baker, Jarrod Ormiston, Leanne Cutcher.

• Paradoxical Ethical Tensions in Wind Power Generation: Mapping Vicious Cyclical Dynamics and Proposing Strategies to Pivot to a Just Energy Transition. Mônica Cavalcanti Sá de Abreu, Ana Rita Pinheiro de Freitas, Domenico Ceglia, João F. Proença.

• Community-Based Enterprise Creation in Base of the Pyramid Environments: A Sharing Economy Perspective. Rakesh G. Nair, Vinay Sharma, Rajat Agrawal, Partha Roy, Yogesh Pandey.

• A Taxonomy of Hybrid Value Logics—How Social Enterprises Combine Institutional Logics Differently. Eva Alexandra Jakob, Janina Sundermeier.

Ecological Economics

• Determinants and effects of green bond issuance: Environmental awareness, ecological budget, biodiversity, oil and lithium. Matthias Horn, Amal Dabbous, Andreas Oehler, Florian Göbel.

• Striking a balance: Exploring preferences and trade-offs associated with mining in Arctic Norway. Rieke S. Kohn, Gorm Kipperberg, Margrethe Aanesen.

• The impacts of palm oil expansion on deforestation and economic activity in the eastern Amazon. Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros, Ariaster Baumgratz Chimeli.

• Small steps in the right direction: Preferences of small-scale farmers for sustainable cattle systems in Guaviare, Colombian Amazon. Catalina Posada-Borrero, Driss Ezzine-de-Blas, Emmanuelle Lavaine, Sébastien Roussel.

• Unlocking the economic potential of recycling waste fishing nets for textile reproduction. Pei-Chiun Li, Fu-Wei Tsao, Hsiu-Ching Shih, Hwong-wen Ma, Nai-Hua Hou.

• Unveiling how financial markets could intensify climate change risks. Juan Laborda, Cristina Suárez, Alejandro Fernández, Haoran Wang, Sonia Quiroga, et al.

• The social welfare value of the global food system. Simon Dietz, Benjamin Bodirsky, Michael Crawford, Ravi Kanbur, Alexander Popp et al.

• Climate neutrality scenarios: How they deal with economic growth, employment and social acceptance. Sarah Lange, Steffen Lange.

• From innovation to exnovation: insights from post-growth food enterprises in Australia. Sabrina Chakori, Nicola J. Grigg, Katharina Biely, Jennifer B. Hinton, Ben Robra et al.

• Climate shocks and banking sector stability: Evidence from El Niño southern oscillation. O. Damette, M. Fajeau, C. Mathonnat.

• Mission accomplished? A post-assessment of EU ETS impact on power sector emissions reduction. Ethan Eslahi, Anna Creti, María-Eugenia Sanin.

• Sufficiency as a matter of care: Practices to provide for needs. Laura Beyeler, Melanie Jaeger-Erben.

• A conceptual framework for assessing pathways towards climate neutrality and biodiversity conservation in a circular forest-based economy. Bogomil Iliev, Niclas Scott Bentsen, Huntley Brownell, Nils Droste, Marianne Thomsen et al.

• Book Review: Innovation, Automation and a Sustainable Economy: Tackling the Inequality, Climate and Biodiversity Crises, Jon-Arild Johannessen (Ed.). Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation, Routledge, New York (2024). Miguel Matos Torres, Ronaldo Couto Parente.

• Book Review: Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice, J. Martínez-Alier. Edward Elgar Publishing (2023). Silpa Satheesh.

Journal of Accounting Research

• Diversity Tokenism. Kelvin K. F. Law, Jingdan Tan.

• The Determinants of ESG Ratings: Rater Ownership Matters. Dragon Yongjun Tang, Jiali Yan, Yaqiong Yao.

• Company Websites: A New Measure of Disclosure. Romain Boulland, Thomas Bourveau, Matthias Breuer.

Journal of Management Information Systems

• Hate Speech Detection on Online News Platforms: A Deep-Learning Approach Based on Agenda-Setting Theory. Seong-Su Kim, Seongbeom Kim, Hee-Woong Kim.

• Understanding the Drivers and Outcomes of Ideologically Charged Social Media Firestorms: The Sociotechnical and Social Learning Perspectives. Tommy K H Chan, Zach W Y Lee, Meizhi Pan, Ke Sun.

• Algorithmic Stakeholder Governance on Content Platforms: A Lead Role Perspective. Mareike Möhlmann, Robert Gregory, Ola Henfridsson.

Journal of Marketing  

• Closing the Knowledge Gap: Understanding and Reducing the Environmental impact of Food Choices. Bart J. Bronnenberg, Trang Bùi, Barbara Deleersnyder, Lesley Haerkens, George Knox et al.

• Consequences of Bottle Bills: How Bottle Deposit Return Schemes Affect Retail Prices and Lead Consumers to Larger Package Sizes. Kristopher O. Keller, Jonne Y. Guyt.

• Sustainable Product Profit Potential and Availability. Bryan Bollinger, Randi Kronthal-Sacco, Levin Zhu.

• Better Innovation for a Better World. Darren W. Dahl, Charles H. Noble, Martin Schreier, Olivier Toubia.

• Immersive Service: Characteristics, Challenges, and Pathways to Consumer Agency. Laurel Anderson, Catharina von Koskull, Martin Mende, Johanna Gummerus.

Journal of Political Economy

• Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence. Laura Bakkensen, Toàn Phan, Tsz-Nga Wong.

• Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India. Arkadev Ghosh.

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

• The gender paradox in pro-environmental engagement: Actionable insights for cause-related marketing and social advocacy campaigns. Sylvie Borau, Robert Mai.

• When previous relationships limit the new: The interplay between product anthropomorphism and used products. Hyokjin Kwak, Marina Puzakova, Junhee Kim.

• Trying not to spend. Mary C. Gilly, Mary Finley Celsi, Chin-May Aradhye.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

• Please Customers or Prevent Wastage? Replenishment and Issuance Policy for a Perishable Product with Age-Sensitive Demand. Achal Goyal, Amar Sapra.

• Emission Reduction Through Regulating Indirect Sources. Sai Zhao, Luyi Gui, Shiliang Cui.

Marketing Science

• Can Rising Eco-sensitivity Hurt Sustainability? Eco-impact of Durable Goods Innovations. K. Sudhir, Ramesh Shankar, Yuan Jin.

Production and Operations Management

• Mainstreaming Versus Fairwashing in Fair Trade Operations. Daehoon Jung, Seung Jae Park.

• From Hidden Fees to Open Books: An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Hospital Price Transparency Rule on Costs and Quality of Medical Services. Xiru Pan, Niam Yaraghi.

• A Deep Demand Response Program for Local Electricity Systems. Marie-Louise Arlt, Gunther Gust, Dirk Neumann.

• Alliance Formations With Joint Sustainable Technology Innovation Efforts. Junlin Chen, Shi Chen, Yujie Xie, Jinting Wang.

• Improving Health Outcomes With Less Cost? Provision of Mobile Clinic in Developing Economies. Fang Liu, Pengfei Guo, Yulan Wang, Yuejuan Xi.

• E-waste Take-Back and Producer Eco-innovation: Empirical Analysis of State Regulations in the United States. Yuqi Peng, Sining Song, Sriram Venkataraman, Yan Dong.

• Social Heart and Business Sense: Translating Corporate Social Responsibility into Gross Margin Premium per Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility Law in India. S Arunachalam, Hariom Manchiraju, Rahul Suhag, Praveen K Kopalle.

• Competitive Industry’s Response to Environmental Taxation. Dmitry Krass, Anton Ovchinnikov.

Review of Accounting Studies

• Climate-related disclosure commitment of the lenders, credit rationing, and borrower environmental performance. Iftekhar Hasan, Haekwon Lee, Anthony Saunders.

• A double-edged sword: materiality classifications of sustainability topics. Max Göttsche, Paul A. Griffin, Theresa Spandel.

Review of Economic Studies

• The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics. Clare Balboni et al.

Review of Finance

• Biodiversity and Local Asset Values. Jess Cornaggia et al.

Review of Financial Studies 

• The Pace of Change: Socially Responsible Investing in Private Markets. Deeksha Gupta et al.

•  Are All ESG Funds Created Equal? Only Some Funds Are Committed. Michelle Lowry et al.

• Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation: Field Evidence from the Market for Carbon Offsets. Matthias Rodemeier.

• Failure to Share Natural Disaster Risk. Tuomas Tomunen.

• Societal Inequality and Bank Deposit Dynamics: Evidence from the Freedman’s Savings Bank. Virginia Traweek, Malcolm Wardlaw.

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

• Broadening the entrepreneurship funnel for women in poverty contexts: Field-experimental evidence from India. Leena Kinger-Hans, Juan Ma.

• Navigating grand challenges: How environmental dynamism shapes robust action and business model innovation. Marziyeh Talebian, Asma Fattoum-Guedri, Rick Molz.

Strategic Management Journal

• No margin, no mission? How emergency medical service crews attend to competing financial and social goals on 9-1-1 calls. Timothy Gubler, Haibo Liu, Alexandru Roman.

• The right to decide: A decision-based perspective on corporate stakeholder governance. Vitor de Barros Santos Freire, Sérgio G. Lazzarini, José Heleno Faro.

• Self-regulation, corruption, and competitiveness in extractive industries: Making transparency pay. Shirley Tang, Daniel W. Elfenbein, Tatenda Pasipanodya.

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