Table of Contents: May 2026

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 May 2026

Academy of Management Learning and Education

• Responsible Ontological Work: Guidance for Doctoral Education and the Ontological Turn. Oliver Laasch.

• Book Review: Critical Hope: How to Grapple with Complexity, Lead with Purpose, and Cultivate Transformative Social Change. Xiangming (Tommy) Tao.

Academy of Management Review

• The Origins and Evolution of Red, Blue, and Purple Employee Populations: A Theory of How Organizations Become Ideologically Skewed. Yasir Dewan, Abhinav Gupta, Donald C. Hambrick.

• Understanding Inclusion: The Role of Organization Member Prototypes. Felix Danbold, Batia M. Wiesenfeld.

• Acting to Know: Extending Vorholzer and Brattström’s Theory of Moral Ambiguity in Entrepreneurial Action through Externalized Moral Resolution. Morgan X. Yang, Kwok Yuen Fan, Kevin J. Zeng.

• When Compassion Constricts: Identity Threat and Organizational Responses to Suffering. William A. Kahn, Han Liu.

Accounting Review

• Modern Privacy Regulation, Internal Information Quality, and Operational Efficiency: Evidence from the General Data Protection Regulation. Steven A. Maex.

• Cross-Border Impact of the ESG Disclosure Mandate: Evidence from Foreign Government Procurement Contracts. Yongtae Kim, Chengzhu Sun, Yi Xiang, Cheng Zeng.

• Effects of Mandatory Carbon Reporting on Greenwashing. Jody Grewal, Gordon Richardson, Jingjing Wang.

• Economic Consequences of Political Polarization: Evidence from an SEC Shutdown and Its Effect on Insider Trading. Daniel A. Bens, Gavin Cassar, Ying Huang, Thomas Keusch.

Administrative Science Quarterly

• Book Review: Hannah Ritchie. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet. Michael Lenox.

• Book Review: Women Lifting Up Women: The Transformative Potential of Parallel-Peer Connections. Julia DiBenigno.

• Book Review: Anthony Abraham Jack. Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality & Students Pay the Price. Heather McCambly.

• A Curation Approach to Identity Management: The Costs of Combining Identity Expression and Suppression. Rachel D. Arnett, Serenity S. Lee, Patricia Faison Hewlin.

Contemporary Accounting Research

• Motive Forces: Accountants’ Distinctive Values and Their Attitudes Toward Social Reforms. Paul E. Madsen, Kevin Munch, Marvin Nipper.

• Emergence of the Food Balance Sheet: A History of A Traveling Idea. Stephen P. Walker, Massimo Sargiacomo.

• Sustainability Controls as Technologies of Actorhood: Constructing the Responsible Supplier in Global Supply Chains. Martin Messner, Marek Reuter, Torkel Strömsten.

Econometrica

• Holding up Green Energy: Counterparty Risk in the Indian Solar Power Market. Nicholas Ryan.

• Firm Accommodation After Workplace Disability: Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Subsidy Design. Naoki Aizawa, Corina Mommaerts, Stephanie Rennane.

• The Complexity of Multidimensional Learning in Agriculture. Rachid Laajaj, Karen Macours.

• Food Policy in a Warming World. Allan Hsiao, Jacob Moscona, Karthik A. Sastry.

Human Resource Management

• Changing Public Attitudes Toward the Employment of Formerly Incarcerated People: The Role of “Human Resources Social Advocacy.” Prue Burns, Marco De Sisto, Andrew Timming, Jun Gu.

• Tokenism in Context: Unpacking Token Women Directors in the Corporate Boardroom. Tanusree Jain, Harry J. Van Buren III, Deirdre Ahern.

• Employee Representation and Firm Digital Transformation. Xin Liu, Ting Ren.

Industry and Innovation

• Artificial Intelligence and the twin transition: the good, the bad, and the ugly. René Bohnsack, Jonatan Pinkse, Georg Reischauer

Journal of Applied Psychology

• Who benefits from board quotas? Intersectional disparities and the moderating role of experience for women directors in India. Priyanka Dwivedi, Yashodhara Basuthakur, Cynthia E. Devers, Rohan Karri.

• They’ll conform anyway: A motivation stereotype perspective on the exploitation of Asian employees. Liuxin Yan, Anjier Chen.

• Setting higher referral targets increases the number of women recommended: Evidence from the field and lab. Aneesh Rai, Erika L. Kirgios, Brian J. Lucas, Katherine L. Milkman.

• A choice architecture intervention to increase diversity: Diverse defaults can counteract hiring discrimination. Zhiyu Feng, Fangzhou Liu, Priscilla Lok-Chee Shum, Rui Ling Lee, Dawei Wang.

Journal of Business Venturing

• Activating civic wealth creation in devitalized communities: The role of sense of place. Rebecca Franklin, Natalie Slawinski.

• 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.

• Debiasing entrepreneurial careers: A field experiment on female role model effects on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and early-stage career choices. Laura Bechthold, Laura Rosendahl Huber, Kimberly A. Eddleston.

Journal of Consumer Marketing

• Bridging the attitude–intention gap in vegan cosmetics consumption: an investigation with Brazilian consumers. Gabriela Nogueira Rauber, Francine Zanin Bagatini, André Francisco Alcântara Fagundes.

• Sustainable consumption and transitional mothers: a relational consumption perspective. Jane Susannah Priest, Christopher A. Dodd, Laura Galloway.

• Mindful consumption: a deep-rooted phenomenon or a far-seeing trade-off? Savita Prasad Kunwer, Shalini Singh.

• Exploring consumer-perceived antecedents of reactive vs proactive brand activism in banking. Rajnigandha Singh, Aditya Shankar Mishra.

• Promoting sustainable foods on Instagram: impact of message source and appeals. Francesca Lemmens; Malaika Brengman; Kim Willems.

• Guest editorial: Sharing services systems and collaborative consumption in a rapidly changing environment. Hugo Guyader; Pia A. Albinsson; Lucie K. Ozanne.

Journal of Financial Economics

• Out of sight, out of mind: Divestments and the global reallocation of pollutive assets. Tobias Berg, Lin Ma, Daniel Streitz.

• Dirty air and green investments: The impact of pollution information on portfolio allocations. Raymond Fisman, Pulak Ghosh, Arkodipta Sarkar, Jian Zhang.

• Sustainable investing and market governance. Alvin Chen, Deeksha Gupta, Jan Starmans.

• Cashless payment and financial inclusion. Shumiao Ouyang.

Journal of Industrial Ecology

• Assessing the social acceptability of sufficiency measures in the residential sector. Konstantin Arndt, Peter Berrill, Sabine Fuss.

• Unpacking policy perspectives and opportunities for a circular economy for plastics in India. Simran Talwar, Sherine Thanduparakkal, Monique Retamal.

• Sustainable public procurement in federal systems: insights from India. Shailly Kedia, Manish Anand.

• Conceptualizing product sustainability performance: a systematic literature review and proposed definition. Cecilia Braga, Jesko Schulte, Matilda S. Watz.

• Bridging industry 5.0 and circular economy in Indian SMEs: an integrated ML–MCDM framework to prioritize cross-sectoral barriers and enablers. Mohammad Amin Darzi.

• Does sufficiency ensure sustainability? Applying sufficiency lifestyles allocation in absolute environmental sustainability assessment of textile fibers. Juulia Suuronen, Anders Bjørn, Elias Hurmekoski.

• End-of-life vehicle management research: insights from the literature and relevance for India. Souvik Bhattacharjya, Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, Vaishali Narasimhan.

• Is circularity going to shrink the global economy? Theoretically, yes. Julian Kirchherr, Mitchell P. Jones.

• The climate cost of lateness: decomposing historical drivers of CO2industrial emissions during Spanish industrialization and deindustrialization, 1890–2021. Ángel Sanjuán-Ruiz, Juan Infante-Amate, Eduardo Aguilera.

• Projected twelve-fold growth in municipal solid waste generation calls for urgent techno-policy intervention across urban India. Vinay Yadav, Amar Mohan Shinde, Mohit Arora.

• Completing the SME carbon profile: scalable prediction of scope 3 emissions. Alec Phillpotts, Anne Owen, David Leake.

• When circular systems scale. Jonas Grafström, Johan P. Larsson.

• From atoms to allies: a social network analysis of information and resource exchange in hubs for circularity. Aidana Tleuken, Patricia Rogetzer, Devrim Murat Yazan.

• Circular Economy in the Global South: Co-creating a research agenda from the Industrial Ecology Society. Glenn A. Aguilar-Hernandez, Bart van Hoof, Simran Talwar.

• Carbon intensity disclosure and corporate credit spreads. Alexander Schoeffel, Lukas Mueller, Dirk Schiereck.

• Corporate carbon performance and the Science-Based Targets initiative: disentangling the effects across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. Martin Schüder, Henning Zülch.

Journal of Management

• Leveraging the Reputation of Being Socially Responsible: Evidence from Firms’ Online Job Postings. Qiang (John) Li, Bingyi Qin, Wenfeng Wang, Zheng Wang.

• Crises Unbound: Institutions, Occupational Groups, and the Construction of Omnicrises. Gerardo Patriotta, Maxim Voronov.

• Rewriting the Imprint: How #MeToo Led CEOs From Male-Dominant Cultures to Increase Gender Equality. Michael J. Mueller, Taco H. Reus.

• How Racioethnic Equity Contributes To Organizational Functioning. Larissa R. Garcia, Kristi B. Hatter, Derek R. Avery, Patrick F. McKay.

• There’s More Than Meets the Eye: Assessing the Impact of Immigrants on Firm Environmental Performance. Narae Lee, Heli Wang.

• Conflict-Situated Cooperation: How Israeli and Palestinian IT Professionals Give Meaning to Cooperating Under Ethnonational Conflict. Pieter de Wit, Christopher Wickert, Ali Aslan Gümüşay.

• Long-Term Organizational Growth Following Disasters: The Role of Collective Empathy. Lucrezia Nava, Kenichi Matsuno, Daniel Beunza.

• The Swaying Power of Business: Inconsistent Social Actions and Mitigating Mechanisms in Corporate Foundations. Ruiqian Xu, Eric Yanfei Zhao, Dongning Yang.

• Measuring Stakeholder Theory Mindsets: Development and Validation of a Measurement Scale. Jacob Hörisch, Laura Ackermann, Stefan Schaltegger, Bidhan L. Parmar, R. Edward Freeman.

• Applicant Reactions to Criminal History Hiring: Stereotype Processes, Diversity Rationale, and Individual Difference. Francisco J. Moreno, Michael A. Johnson, Terrance L. Boyd.

Journal of Management Studies

• Chasing – Or Escaping – The Limelight of Sustainability Media Attention? Narcissism’s Opposing Effects for Women and Men CEOs on Environmental Performance. Jamie L. Gloor, Sana Chiu, Judith Walls, Giannina Faktor.

• Understanding and Addressing the Disruptive Impacts of Contemporary Climate Crises. Jaco Fourie, Markus A. Höllerer, Renate E. Meyer, Dennis Jancsary, Graham Dwyer, Martin Kornberger, Paul Spee.

• When Doing Good Feels Wrong: The Dual Influence of Perceived Organizational Opportunism on Employee CSR Behaviour. Jintao Lu, Yue Li, Benjamin Laker, Chunyan Wang, Luu Duc Toan Huynh, Valerie Onyia Babatope, Malin Song.

• Recruitment in Times of Crisis: The Impact of Negative Signals and CSR on Job Seekers’ Attraction to Multinational Enterprises. Keyan Lai, Kristina Potočnik.

• Two Sides of the Same Coin: Sustaining Loan-Use Ambiguity in Microfinance through Harmonizing Practices. Jacob Vermeire, Miguel Meuleman, Jan Lepoutre.

• The Interactive Impact of Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Cultural Values on Technology Adoption: Renewable Energy in the EU. Raquel Antolín-López, Jeffrey G. York, Theodore L. Waldron, Javier Martínez-del-Rio.

• Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools. Wafa Ben Khaled,  Alessandro Ghio.

• Capitalism Versus Socialism: Can (or Should) Management Scholars Embrace Varieties of Socio-Economic Systems in a Multipolar World? Christopher Wickert.

Journal of Marketing Research

• Consumers Prefer That Corporations Donate Periodically. Alexander B. Park, Yanyi Leng, Fausto J. Gonzalez, Jared Watson, Francesca Valsesia, Cynthia Cryder.

• Marketing and Economics of Harm Reduction: Evidence from Conservation Field Experiments. Kristina Brecko, Wesley R. Hartmann.

Journal of Operations Management

• How Do Firms Develop Safety Management Capabilities? The Impact of Institutional Forces and Digital Technology Resources. Lin Zhang, Zhen Shao, Jose Benitez.

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 

• When the Regulator Goes Home: The Effectiveness of Environmental Inspections and Enforcement. Zach Raff, Jason M. Walter, Dietrich Earnhart.

• The Impact of Offshoring and Import Competition on Carbon Emissions. Jonathan Leisner, Jakob Roland Munch, August Twile Nielsen, Georg Schaur.

• Political Ideology and U.S. Electric Vehicle Adoption. Lucas W. Davis, Jing Li, Katalin Springel.

• Electricity, Agricultural Productivity, and Deforestation: Evidence from Brazil. Dimitri Szerman, Juliano Assuncao, Molly Lipscomb, Ahmed Musfhiq Mobarak.

• Correcting Consumer Misperceptions about CO2 Emissions. Taisuke Imai, Davide D. Pace, Peter Schwardmann, Joel J. van der Weele.

Management Science

• The Impact of Voluntary Carbon Goal Announcements on Stock Returns. Lukas Schnabel, Setareh Heidari, Stefan J. Hock, Sascha Raithel.

• The AI Democratization Paradox: Evidence from Decentralized Knowledge Communities. Kai Zhu, Dylan Walker.

• Climate Transition Beliefs. Marco Ceccarelli, Stefano Ramelli.

• Racial Inequality and Bureaucracy in U.S. Manufacturing. Dylan K. Nelson, Nathan Wilmers.

• Sustainable Sourcing of Agricultural Products: Fixed vs. Flexible Premiums. Vishal Agrawal, Can Zhang.

• Investor Reliance on ESG Ratings and Stock Price Performance. Aleksandra Rzeźnik, Kathleen Weiss Hanley, Loriana Pelizzon.

• Deciphering Greenium: The Role of Investor Demand. Liying Wang, Juan (Julie) Wu.

• Mission Driven and Data Averse: How Empathy Fosters Resistance to Algorithms and Hard Data. Razvan Ghita, Jacob Zureich.

• Designing Payment Models for the Poor. Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Saša Zorc.

• Financial Inclusion via Blockchain: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Shangrong Jiang, Yuze Li, Shouyang Wang.

• Combating Excessive Overtime in Global Supply Chains: The Workforce Perspective. Chuanya Jiao, Anyan Qi, Jiayu Chen.

• The Impact of Climate Change: An Empirical Analysis of Smart Thermostat Data. Michael R. Blair, Saed Alizamir, Shouqiang Wang.

• Dynamic Matching with Postallocation Service and Its Application to Refugee Resettlement. Kirk Bansak, Soonbong Lee, Vahideh Manshadi, Rad Niazadeh, Elisabeth Paulson.

• Willful Ignorance and Moral Behavior. Raphael Epperson, Andreas Gerster.

• “Glossy Green” Banks: The Disconnect Between Environmental Disclosures and Lending Activities. Mariassunta Giannetti, Martina Jasova, Maria Loumioti, Caterina Mendicino.

• Do Carbon Emissions Affect Stock Returns? Causal Evidence from a Supreme Court Ruling. Xiaoyi Lyu, Chenyu Shan, Dragon Yongjun Tang.

• Responsible Investment and Responsible Consumption. Hendrik Hakenes, Eva Schliephake.

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