Kedge Business School

This paper investigates how microaggressions experienced by female employees can trigger antagonistic work behaviors (AWBs). By drawing on social exchange and reciprocity perspectives, we test a moderated-mediated model of microaggressions toward women. Findings from our vignette experiments (Study 1) conducted with 236 female employees confirmed that individuals exhibit more AWBs in a high-microaggressions condition and vice versa. Additionally, vignette-based Study 2, which used a 2 × 2 factorial design and included 272 female employees, validated the significant interactive effect of psychological ownership (PO) and co-rumination on AWBs. Furthermore, results from a two-wave time-lagged survey (Study 3) conducted with 267 female employees confirmed that microaggressions toward women are significantly related to AWBs. Additionally, we found the significant partial mediating role of PO in the relationship between microaggressions toward women and AWBs. Results regarding the boundary condition showed that high co-rumination at work intensifies the negative relationship between PO and AWBs. We also find evidence of a moderated mediation relationship in our study. These empirical findings add to the existing knowledge on microaggressions toward women and their effects on employee outcomes. Furthermore, these results guide organizations in creating a more diverse workplace where covert forms of discrimination toward women should also be addressed.

Enacting fairness remains a persistent challenge for managers, prompting the need to understand how they can better treat their subordinates. Addressing this challenge, we investigate whether, how, and when mindfulness facilitates managers’ adherence to fairness. Through the lens of Social Cognitive Theory, we frame mindfulness as a metacognitive skill and propose that it enhances managers’ enactment of justice by fostering their moral potency, while this effect is diminished under high-workload conditions. We tested these ideas across two studies. Study 1 (N = 201), an experiment conducted with graduate business students from cooperative education programs, showed that a brief 15-min mindfulness intervention significantly increased moral potency relative to an active control condition, providing causal evidence for the proposed mechanism. Study 2 (N = 419), a three-wave study of managers in the United States and the United Kingdom, offered full support for the overall moderated mediation model. Together, these studies advance the mindfulness and justice literature by clarifying moral implications and contextual boundaries of mindfulness.

We examine how home-country cultural institutions shape firms’ responses to political risk when choosing equity-based entry modes for international expansion. Prior research typically treats host-country political risk as a uniform deterrent, yet we contend that risk is cognitively filtered through national cultural frameworks that guide managerial perceptions and choices. We test this perspective with a meta-analysis of 154 studies (1976–2022), combining Hedges–Olkin models and meta-analytic regressions with Hofstede and GLOBE cultural dimensions and Lasso-based residualization of macro-institutional covariates. On average, we find that host-country political risk is associated with only a modest reduction in equity-based entry, and this relationship is highly heterogeneous. We show that cultural-cognitive institutions systematically account for this heterogeneity: power distance, individualism, and masculinity strengthen firms’ propensity to maintain or increase equity under political risk, whereas uncertainty avoidance weakens it, and long-term orientation shows no robust effect. These findings show that political risk is not simply an external constraint but a culturally interpreted phenomenon. By integrating internalization theory, neo-institutional perspectives, and insights from Institutional Anomie Theory, our study offers a more nuanced account of internationalization strategies and practical guidance for firms navigating political uncertainty across diverse cultural contexts.

Environmental justice struggles in restrictive institutional contexts remain contentious and sensitive. Current research confirms that the ability of NGOs to influence government policy and corporate behavior is limited due to state suppression in such contexts. There remains no clear understanding of how the work of NGOs can positively impact policy change for environmental justice. This study examines a case of activism and interaction between two types of NGOs in response to an oil pipeline project in Russia. Their efforts contributed to a regional law that regulates assessment and compensation for Indigenous peoples. Through the lens of institutional work and issue salience, the article examines collaborative and confrontational tactics of NGOs and introduces salience work and futuring as conceptual contributions to institutional work on environmental justice.

Assessing sustainability performance is crucial for ensuring industries align with sustainable development goals, contributing to society’s well-being. This paper investigates the impact of sustainable policies on supply chain design, examining how such policies drive industries to adopt greener production technologies, impose production caps, or relocate facilities. Unlike studies focused on individual companies, this research evaluates these impacts at the industry level. It introduces an optimization framework as an ex-ante sustainability assessment tool to compare industry performance in a business-as-usual scenario versus one with sustainable policy implementation. The model considers economic, environmental, and social factors, using the Time-to-Sustainability optimization approach to calculate the minimum time needed to achieve sustainability goals. This framework is instrumental in evaluating the effects of sustainability policies like the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on supply chains. The findings offer valuable decision support for policymakers crafting strategic sustainability pathways. A case study on Colombia’s dairy industry, using data from Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions for the country’s low-carbon strategy, highlights challenges in transforming the industry. The proposed framework aims to contribute to and assess sustainable agricultural production, but it is general in scope and can be adapted to other industries with appropriate sustainability goals.