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 February 2026

Academy of Management Learning and Education

• A Design for All: De-Neurotypicalizing Business Schools and Achieving Substantive Performativity. Jennifer R. Spoor, Tiffany Payton Jameson, Jon Billsberry, Timothy J. Vogus.

• Englishization Beyond the Global North: Dependency, Struggle, and Resistance in Brazilian Management Research. Mehdi Boussebaa, Rafael Alcadipani, Fernando Vianna, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Stewart Clegg.

• Publishing with AMLE: An Invitation to Join the “Big Table” for Pluriversal Conversations. Simy Joy, Olga Ryazanova, Laura A. Colombo, Diego M. Coraiola.

Academy of Management Review

• Designing Dual-Purpose Organizations: The Role of Soft Governance. Anna Szerb, Ilze Kivleniece, Vikas A Aggarwal.

• Corporate Strategy and the Portfolio-Based View of CSR: Toward a Theory of Optimal CSR Diversification. David J. Skandera, Mark R. DesJardine, Dane P. Blevins.

• Beyond Dangling Carrots: The Effect of Policy Maker Motives on Their Response to Corporate Political Activity. Pouyan Tabasi-Nejad, Yuval Deutsch.

• 2025 Presidential Address: Activism, Impact and Science: Management Scholarship in a Challenging Era. Peter Bamberger.

Accounting Review

• Constructing Carbon Abatement Cost Curves. Gunther Glenk, Rebecca Meier, Stefan Reichelstein.

• Fair Market Value of Used Capacity Assets: Forecasts for Repurposed Electric Vehicle Batteries. Amadeus Bach, Simona Onori, Stefan Reichelstein, Jihan Zhuang.

Administrative Science Quarterly

• Democratic Deviations: How Organizations Sustain Decentralization Commitments in the Face of Centralization Pressures. Michael Y. Lee, Trevor Young-Hyman.

• Book Review: Kalpita Bhar Paul. Ecophenomenology and the Environmental Crisis in the Sundarbans: Towards a Community-Based Ethic. Juliane Reinecke.

• Interpreting Violence: How Community Context Shapes Corporate Responses to Street Protests. Forrest Briscoe, Mark R. DesJardine, Muhan Zhang.

Business Ethics Quarterly

• In Defense of an “Ethics Judgment Rule”. Santiago Mejia.

• Social Upgrading in Global Supply Chains: Reframing Corporate Responsibilities. Ewan Kingston, Maria Carnovale.

• Moral Distress in Bioethics and Business Ethics: Knowledge, Action, and Desire in Moral Conditions and Communities. Christopher Wong Michaelson, Andrew Jameton and Joan Liaschenko.

• Balancing, Shielding, Filtering: Three Models of Role Morality. Hamish Russell.

• Book Review: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities, by Luciano Floridi. Oxford University Press, 2023. 272 pp. Diana Acosta-Navas.

• Guest Editors’ Introduction: Redefining Organizational Ethics Through the Lens of Life-and-Death. Mar Pérezts, Marianna Fotaki, Yuliya Shymko, Gazi Islam.

• Getting Away with Murder: Legitimizing Unethical Organization Practices via Memes. Fernando Vianna, Rafael Alcadipani, Marcos Barros, Gustavo Matarazzo.

• Book Review: The Ethics of Global Business, by Denis G. Arnold. Wiley Blackwell, 2023. 161 pp. Georges Enderle.

Econometrica

• Coordination and Commitment in International Climate Action: Evidence From Palm Oil. Allan Hsiao.

Human Resource Management

• Mitigating Disability Bias in Hiring: The Role of Inclusion-Focused Generative AI in Complex HR Decisions.Miles M. Yang.

• Advancing Employee Voice Through Insights From Democratic Innovations. Simon Pek, Lorin Busaan.

• Using Photo-Elicitation to Make Marginalised Voices Heard and Seen in Human Resource Management Research. Robin C. Ladwig, Jane Phuong.

• Sustainable HRM in the Public Sector: A Question of Viability or Legitimacy? Mathew Johnson,  Stephen Mustchin, Damian Grimshaw, Aristea Koukiadaki.

Journal of Applied Psychology

• The gendered costs of voice (un)enacted: Differential effects on belonging in traditionally male-dominated contexts. Crystal I. C. Farh, Blair E. Middlebrook et al.

• The effects of food insecurity on work outcomes. Jason H. Moy, Ussama Ahmad Khan, Wei Jee Ong, Christopher M. Barnes.

• The hidden cost of courage: How oppositional courage shapes trans employees’ diminished image belief. Christian N. Thoroughgood, Katina B. Sawyer, Gwendolyn Paige Watson, Mateo Cruz, Kelly P. Gabriel, Adam Pervez.

• Are they really just words? Investigating the prevalence and impact of physical disability biased language in job advertisements. Melissa D. Pike, Deborah M. Powell, Jeffrey R. Spence, Joshua S. Bourdage.

• Sharing is ethicizing: Examining the impact of sharing observed unethical behavior with family members on ethical voice at work. Anjier Chen, Ke Michael Mai; Yamon Min Ye.

• (Re)Entering the workforce after imprisonment: A new perspective on voluntary disclosure of criminal history and job-search assistance. Lawrence Houston III, Brett H. Neely Jr., Timothy G. Kundro, Horatio D. Traylor.

Journal of Business Venturing

• Emancipatory entrepreneurship by a stigmatized social group. Chang Lu, Rongrong Zhang, Trish Reay.

• The power of consumer solidarity framing in scaling up social impact. Yuliya Snihur, Clarence Bluntz, Nancy Bocken.

• Scale, scope, speed, and customization (pick two): Resourcing drives trade-offs in local compassion venturing effectiveness. Stella Seyb, Trenton A. Williams, Dean A. Shepherd.

• Rewards-based crowdfunding as an institutional carrier: The cross-border backing of environmental projects. Ahmed Sewaid, Tom Vanacker, Shaker A. Zahra.

• Social entrepreneurship mechanisms for systems change: A structuration approach. Gorgi Krlev.

Journal of Consumer Marketing

• BOP’s dilemma: is jugaad an innovation or an invisible burden? Jayashree Sutar, Srabanti Mukherjee.

• Memento Mori: mortality salience, legacy and time perspective in sustainable consumption. Hyeyoon Bae, Sang Hyun Jo.

• Participative pricing, food affordability, and nutritional adequacy: evidence from India. Zeeshan Zeeshan, Md Tajuddin Khan.

• A cultural perspective on informal ride sharing. Abigail Ehidiamen, Fiona Cheetham, Alexandros Nikitas.

• Is Gen Z willing to pay for sustainability? An advanced market segmentation analysis. Andrew Rohm, Aidin Namin, Matt Stefl.

• Values, risk and biodiversity-friendly action: perceived consumer effectiveness matters. Outi Uusitalo, Henna Rouhiainen, Mitra Salimi.

Journal of Financial Economics

• Investments that make our homes greener: The role of regulation. Nuno Clara, João F. Cocco, S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan, Varun Sharma.

• The benchmark greenium. Stefania D’Amico, Johannes Klausmann, N. Aaron Pancost.

Journal of Industrial Ecology

• What do circular cities do? Insights from 26 case studies. Mugur Schuppler, Christina Bidmon, Julian Kirchherr.

• CO2 and socioeconomic impacts of working time reduction: a case study of 4.5-day workweek. Junjie Zhang, Shiwei Yu, Xing Hu.

• Is academia addressing relevant questions to support a circularity transition in Latin America and the Caribbean? Glenn A. Aguilar-Hernandez, Ana Belén Guerrero, Alejandro Gallego-Schmid.

• Environmental, social and governance impacts of beef production systems: an integrated literature review. Priyambada Joshi, Ayon Chakraborty, Harpinder Sandhu.

• Enhancing regional resilience for energy price shocks: efficient gas use and upstream decarbonization. Sacha den Nijs, Mark Thissen.

• From ‘New’ to ‘Renewed’: how consumer perceptions of functional and symbolic value influence reuse in the construction industry. Nadine Gurtner, Barbora Starovicova.

• Circular technology design and its potential influence on minor metals demand in wind and solar expansion. Georgia Savvidou, Filip Johnsson, Theodoros Zachariadis.

• Reframing perceptions on the informal and formal waste sectors: an analysis of the social and systemic hotspots of the plastic waste management system of Chennai, India. Sowmya Marriyapillai Ravisandiran, Nicolas Navarre, Stefano Cucurachi.

• Supporting repairability analysis through graph-based visualisation. Eduardo Blanco-Espeleta, Victoria Pérez-Belis, María D. Bovea.

• Circular economy in India’s tire sector: material flow analysis and review of end-of-life management strategies. Shashank Shukla, Yogendra Shastri, Andrew Hoadley.

• A stakeholder theory perspective on digital product passport implementation. Johanna Paeplow, Ilka Jussen-Lengersdorf, Frederik Möller.

• Ecosystem initiation: a key policy challenge for circular economy transition. Roelof Vogel, Martin Geissdoerfer.

Journal of Management

• A Review of Systems Perspectives in Sustainability: How Systems Properties Convey Systems-Wide Dynamics. Domenico Dentoni, Marija Roglic, Amanda Williams, Pratima Bansal.

• Organizations as Stages: A Dramaturgical Theory of the Societal Integration of Stigmatized Groups. Jan Lodge, Wesley S. Helms, Thomas Roulet, Paul Tracey.

• How Gender Diversity and Equality in R&D Departments Jointly Affect Firm-Level Innovation Through Innovation Capabilities. Boris Lokshin, Christophe Boone, Corinne Post.

• A CEO-Driven Process Model of Firm Responsiveness to Secondary Stakeholder Demands: The Roles of CEO Values and Passion. François Neville, G. Alessandra Rizzi, Jeffrey B. Lovelace.

• Physical Disability in the Workplace: A Comprehensive Review and Unifying Framework. Wyatt E. Lee, Ashley Y. Roccapriore, Franz T. Lohrke, Christopher R. Reutzel.

• Firm Growth and Corporate Social Responsibility. Mark R. DesJardine, Jimi Kim, Pratima Bansal.

• Magic Will Happen if You Gather Us in One Room: Gender Homophily and Women-Only Networking. Patricia Hein, Marjo-Riitta Diehl, Karin Kreutzer.

Journal of Management Studies

• Carbon Populism and Representative Politics: On Why Fossil Fuel Firms Speaking for ‘The People’ Is a Bad Idea. Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright, Vanessa Bowden, Peter Fleming.

• Micro-Processes of Constrained Innovation: A Field Study of Constraint-Handling Practices in Base of the Pyramid Innovation Projects. Helene Doms, Matthias Weiss, Martin Hoegl.

• Joining Decision-Making, Moral Thinking, and Collective Action: Grand Challenges as a Phenomenology of Deliberation. Alfredo Grattarola, Jean-Pascal Gond, Stefan Haefliger.

• When Opposites Don’t Attract: The New Information Environment, Polarization, and What Happens to Social Evaluations When ‘The World Goes to Hell in a Handbasket’. Timothy G. Pollock, Violina P. Rindova.

• Leadership and the Virtue of Humanity: Conceptual Clarity, Systematic Review, and Future Research Agenda. Toby Newstead, Saeed Loghman, Alexander Newman, Ronald Riggio.

• CEO Activism and Corporate Reputation: How Authenticity and CSR Mitigate Stakeholder Misalignment. Lambert Zixin Li, Sarah A. Soule.

• Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm. Itziar Castelló, Elanor Colleoni, Andreas Georg Scherer, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich.

• Are Social Media Platforms a Threat to Democracy? An Ecosystem Governance Perspective. Carmelo Cennamo, Jovana Karanovic.

• Do Women Executives Make Workplaces Safer? Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations. Yangyang Chen, Emmanuel Ofosu, Don O’Sullivan, Shi Tang, Leon Zolotoy.

• Beyond Rugged Individualism?: Exploring the Resilience of Black Entrepreneurs to Chronic Racism. Saran Nurse, Kisha Dasent, Alex Rivera, John Pastor Ansah, Janine Black.

• Contending with Perceived Legitimacy Tensions: Impact Investing in Pluralistic Institutional Environments. Jessica Jones, Alex Murray.

Journal of Marketing Research  

• Fair Lending in Car Financing: Unintended Racial Consequences of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Supervision of Dealer Markups. Cheng He, O. Cem Ozturk, Pradeep K. Chintagunta.

• Who Benefits from Alternative Data for Credit Scoring? Evidence from Peru. Jung Youn Lee, Joonhyuk Yang, Eric T. Anderson.

Journal of Operations Management

• Supply Chain Guardianship: Why Some Firms Intervene When Other Firms Commit Fraud. Scott DuHadway, Steven Carnovale, Lutz Kaufmann.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

• Downwind and out: The strategic dispersion of power plants and their pollution. John M. Morehouse, Edward Rubin.

•  Regulatory Compliance in the Automobile Industry. Bing Guo, Sarah Parlane, Lisa Ryan.

• Confronting the Carbon Pricing Gap: Second-Best Climate Policy. Katheline Schubert, Aude Pommeret, Francesco Ricci.

Management Science

• Nudging Green-but-Slow Shipping Choices in Online Retail. Yeonjoo Lee, Karen Donohue.

• Eliciting Supplier Cooperation for Value Chain Decarbonization: A Field Experiment with Smallholder Farmers in India. Sukti Ghosh, Jasjit Singh.

• Female Equity Analysts and Corporate Environmental and Social Performance. Kai Li, Feng Mai, Gabriel Wong, Chelsea Yang, Tengfei Zhang.

• Do Financial Advisors Charge Sustainable Investors a Premium? Marten Laudi, Paul Smeets, Utz Weitzel.

• The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting. Lauren H. Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, Quoc H. Nguyen.

• How Deadly Is Financial Leverage? Evidence from Care Homes During the COVID-19 Crisis. Peter Morris, Ludovic Phalippou, Betty Wu.

• The Need for Speed: The Impact of Capital Constraints on Strategic Misconduct. F. Christopher Eaglin.

• Potty Parity. Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Ming Hu.

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