Journal Articles

Forthcoming

Zhang, Y., Pinkse, J., & McMeekin, A. (2024). Hybrid governance of digital platforms: Exploring complementarities and tensions in the governance of peer relationships. Strategic Organization. In press. SO; ResearchGate

2025

Sun, Y., Pinkse, J., & Bleda, M. (2025). Social media platforms’ use of nonmarket strategy to manage politically contentious issues in host countries: The case of TikTok in the US market. Journal of International Management. 31(6), 101293. JIM; ResearchGate

Bocken, N., Pinkse, J., Ritala, P., & Darnall, N. (2025). Moving beyond circular utopia and paralysis: Accelerating business transformations towards the circular economy. Organization & Environment. 38(2), 91-108. OE; ResearchGate

Ziembla, M, Uyarra, E., & Pinkse, J. (2025). Examining system-level agency in the context of spatially embedded industries: A study of Greater Manchester’s domestic retrofit industry. Regional Studies. 59(1), 2446574. Regional Studies; ResearchGate

Bleda, M & Pinkse, J. (2025). Leaving the cold behind: The role of emotions and cognitive biases in business adaptation to climate change. Business and Society. 64(1), 9-44. B&S; ResearchGate

2024

Lehmann, S., Schleich, J., & Pinkse, J. (2024). Allocation or skill? What’s driving corporate trading performance in the EU ETS? The Energy Journal. 45(6), 203-221. EJ; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J. & Bohnsack, R. (2024). Harnessing AI butterfly effect for sustainability: Digital boost or recipe for disaster? Amplify. 37(4), 44-51. Amplify

Rezaeian, M., Pinkse, J., & Rigby, J. (2024). Transition policy mixes and business model adaptation: Incumbent firms’ response to zero carbon policy in the housing sector. Business Strategy and the Environment. 33(7), 7287-7304. BSE; ResearchGate.

Stadtler, L., Seitanidi, M., Knight, H., Leigh, J., Clarke, A., Janzen Le Ber, M., Bogie, J., Hustad, O., Krasonikolakis, I., Shah Brunese, P., Lioliou, E., MacDonald, A., Pinkse, J., & Sehgal, S. (2024) Cross-sector partnerships to address societal grand challenges: Systematizing differences in scholarly analysis. Journal of Management Studies. 61(7), 3327-3357. JMS; ResearchGate

Ziembla, M., Uyarra, E., & Pinkse, J. (2024). The uphill battle for reinventing post-industrial regions: The case of Greater Manchester’s ‘clean growth’ mission. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 53, 100915. EIST; ResearchGate

Niesten, E., Pereira, G., & Pinkse, J. (2024). Transitioning to sustainable energy by incumbent utilities: Insights from M&As, alliances, and divestments. Industrial and Corporate Change. 33(5), 1123-1157. ICC; ResearchGate

Molecke, G., Hahn, T., & Pinkse, J. (2024). Folding of organizational paradoxes: Narrative practices for legitimation amid competing stakeholder demands. Human Relations. 77(9), 1362-1396. HR; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J. (2024). Green and greening jobs. Nature Sustainability. 7(5), 510-511. NS; ResearchGate

Rezaeian, M., Pinkse, J., & Rigby, J. (2024). Transforming titans: The role of policy mixes in business model adaptation strategies for sustainability transitions. Energy Research & Social Science. 112, 103499. ERSS; ResearchGate  

Busch, T., Barnett, M. L., Burritt, R., Cashore, B, Freeman, E., Henriques, I, Husted, B. W., Panwar, R., Pinkse, J., Schaltegger, S., & York, J. (2024). Moving beyond ‘the’ business case: How to make corporate sustainability work. Business Strategy and the Environment. 33(2), 776-787. BSE; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J., Demirel, P., & Marino, A. (2024). Unlocking innovation for net zero: Constraints, enablers, and firm-level transition strategies. Industry and Innovation. 31(1), 16-41. I&I; ResearchGate

2023

Bleda, M., Krull, E., Pinkse, J., & Christodoulou, E. (2023). Organizational heuristics and firms’ sensemaking for climate change adaptation. Business Strategy and the Environment. 32(8), 6124-6137. BSE; ResearchGate

Panwar, R., Pinkse, J., Cashore, B., & Husted, B. (2023). Why corporate sustainability initiatives fail to reduce deforestation and what to do about it. Business Strategy and the Environment. 32(8), 5121-5127. BSE; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J., Lüdeke-Freund, F., Laasch, O., Snihur, Y., & Bohnsack, R. (2023). The organizational dynamics of business models for sustainability: Discursive and cognitive pathways for change. Organization & Environment. 36(2), 211-227. OE; ResearchGate

Panwar, R., Ober, H., & Pinkse, J. (2023). The uncomfortable relationship between business and biodiversity: Advancing research on business strategies for biodiversity protection. Business Strategy and the Environment. 32(5), 2554-2566. BSE; ResearchGate

2022

Vernay, A-L, Cartel, M. & Pinkse, J. (2022). Mainstreaming business models for sustainability in mature industries: Leveraging alternative institutional logics for optimal distinctiveness. Organization & Environment. 35(3), 414-445. OE; ResearchGate

Hahn, T., & Pinkse, J. (2022). A Paradox Approach to Sustainable Product-Service Systems. Industrial Marketing Management. 105, 182-189. IMM ; ResearchGate

Bohnsack, R., Bidmon, C.M., & Pinkse, J. (2022). Sustainability in the digital age – Intended and unintended consequences of digital technologies for sustainable development. Business Strategy and the Environment. 31(2), 599-602. BSE; ResearchGate

Panwar, R., Pinkse, J., & De Marchi, V. (2022). The future of global supply chains in a post-COVID-19 world. California Management Review. 64(2), 5-23. CMR; ResearchGate

Geels, F., Pinkse, J., & Pereira, G.I. (2021). Moving beyond opportunity narratives in COVID-19 green recoveries: A comparative analysis of public investment plans in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science. 84, 102368. ERSS; ResearchGate 

Pereira, G.I., Niesten, E., & Pinkse, J. (2022). Sustainable energy systems in the making: A study on business model adaptation in incumbent utilities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 174, 121207. TFSC; ResearchGate

Schena, R., Russo, A., & Pinkse, J. (2022). Employee domain and non-financial performance: The moderating effect of digital reputation. Meditari Accountancy Research. 30(4), 893-913. MAR; ResearchGate

2021

Pinkse, J. & Bohnsack, R. (2021). Sustainable product innovation and changing consumer behavior: Sustainability affordances as triggers of adoption and usage. Business Strategy and the Environment. 30 (7), 3120-3130. BSE; ResearchGate

Barnett, M.L., Cashore, B., Henriques, I., Husted, B.W., Panwar, R., Pinkse, J., 2021. Reorient the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 19 (1), 34–39. SSIR; ResearchGate

Dentoni, D., Pinkse, J. & Lubberink, R. (2021). Linking sustainable business models to socio-ecological resilience through cross-sector partnerships: A Complex Adaptive Systems view. Business & Society. 60 (5), 1216-1252. B&S; ResearchGate

2020

Zhang, Y., Pinkse, J. & McMeekin, A. (2020). The governance practices of sharing platforms: Unpacking the interplay between social bonds and economic transactions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 158, 120133. TFSC; ResearchGate

Laasch, O. & Pinkse, J. (2020). Explaining the leopards’ spots: Responsibility-embedding in business model artefacts across spaces of institutional complexity. Long Range Planning. 53 (4), 101891. LRP; ResearchGate

Molecke, G., & Pinkse, J. (2020). Justifying social impact as a form of impression management: Legitimacy judgments of social enterprises’ impact accounts. British Journal of Management. 31(2), 387-402. BJM; ResearchGate

Bohnsack, R., Kolk, A., Pinkse, J. & Bidmon, C. (2019). Driving the electric bandwagon: The dynamics of incumbents’ sustainable product innovation. Business Strategy and the Environment. 29(2), 727-743. BSE; ResearchGate

2019

Ashraf, N., Pinkse, J., Ahmadsimab, A., Ul-Haq, S. & Badar, K. (2019). Divide and rule: The effects of diversity and network structure on a firm’s sustainability performance. Long Range Planning. 52(6), 101880. LRP; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J., Hahn, T., & Figge, F. (2019). Super-sized tensions and slim responses: The discursive construction of strategic tensions around social issues. Academy of Management Discoveries. 5(3), 314-340. AMD; ResearchGate

Truong, Y. & Pinkse, J. (2019). Opportunistic behaviors in green signaling: When do firms engage in symbolic green product preannouncement? International Journal of Production Economics. 128, 287-296. IJPE; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J., & Gasbarro, F. (2019). Managing physical impacts of climate change: An attentional perspective on corporate adaptation. Business & Society. 58(2), 333-368. B&S; ResearchGate

2018

Vernay, A-L, D’Ippolito, B. & Pinkse, J. (2018). Can the government create a vibrant cluster? Understanding the impact of cluster policy on the development of a cluster. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. 30(7-8), 901-919.  ERD; ResearchGate

Hahn, T., Figge, F., Pinkse, J., & Preuss, L. (2018). A paradox perspective on corporate sustainability: Descriptive, instrumental, and normative aspects. Journal of Business Ethics. 148(2), 235-248. JBE; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J., Vernay, A-L, & D’Ippolito, B. (2018). An organisational perspective on the cluster paradox: Exploring how members of a cluster manage the tension between continuity and renewal. Research Policy. 47, 674-685. RP; ResearchGate

Siegner, M., Pinkse, J., & Panwar, R. (2018). Managing tensions in a social enterprise: The complex balancing act to deliver a multi-faceted but coherent social mission. Journal of Cleaner Production. 174, 1314-1324. JCP; ResearchGate

2017

Acquier, A., Daudigeos, T., & Pinkse, J. (2017). Promises and paradoxes of the sharing economy: An organizing framework. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 125, 1-10. TFSC; ResearchGate

Molecke, G., & Pinkse, J. (2017). Accountability for social impact: A bricolage perspective on impact measurement in social enterprises. Journal of Business Venturing. 32(5), 550-568. JBV; ResearchGate

Panwar, R., Nybakk, E., Hansen, E., & Pinkse, J. (2017). Does the business case matter? The effect of a perceived business case on small firms’ social engagement. Journal of Business Ethics. 144(3), 597-608. JBE; ResearchGate

Bohnsack, R., & Pinkse, J. (2017). Value propositions for disruptive technologies: Reconfiguration tactics in the case of electric vehicles. California Management Review. 59(4), 79-96.  CMR; ResearchGate

Ashraf, N.,  Ahmadsimab, A., & Pinkse, J. (2017). From animosity to affinity: The interplay of competing logics and interdependence in cross-sector partnerships. Journal of Management Studies. 54(6), 793-822. JMS; ResearchGate

Slawinski, N., Pinkse, J., Busch, T., & Banerjee, S. B. (2017). The role of short-termism and uncertainty in organizational inaction on climate change: A multilevel framework. Business & Society. 56(2), 253-282. B&S; ResearchGate

2016

Bohnsack, R., Pinkse, J., & Waelpoel, A. (2016). The institutional evolution process of the global solar industry: The role of public and private actors in creating institutional shifts. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.20, 16-32. EIST; ResearchGate

Gasbarro, F., & Pinkse, J. (2016). Corporate adaptation behaviour to deal with climate change: The influence of firm‐specific interpretations of physical climate impacts. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 23(3), 179-192. CSR-EM; ResearchGate

Hahn, T., Pinkse, J., Preuss, L., & Figge, F. (2016). Ambidexterity for corporate social performance. Organization Studies. 37(2), 213-235. OS; ResearchGate

Panwar, R., Nybakk, E., Hansen, E., & Pinkse, J. (2016). The effect of small firms’ competitive strategies on their community and environmental engagement. Journal of Cleaner Production. 129, 578-585.  JCP; ResearchGate

Shomali, A., & Pinkse, J. (2016). The consequences of smart grids for the business model of electricity firms. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112(5), 3830-3841.  JCP; ResearchGate

2015

Pinkse, J., & Groot, K. (2015). Sustainable entrepreneurship and corporate political activity: Overcoming market barriers in the clean energy sector. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 39(3), 633-654. ETP; ResearchGate

Bohnsack, R., Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2015). Catching recurring waves: Low-emission vehicles, international policy developments and firm innovation strategies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 98, 71-87. TFSC; ResearchGate

Panwar, R., Nybakk, E., Pinkse, J., & Hansen, E. (2015). Being good when not doing well: Examining the effect of the economic downturn on small manufacturing firms’ ongoing sustainability-oriented initiatives. Organization & Environment, 28(2), 204-222. O&E; ResearchGate

Hahn, T., Pinkse, J., Preuss, L., & Figge, F. (2015). Tensions in corporate sustainability: Towards an integrative framework. Journal of Business Ethics, 127(2), 297-316. JBE; ResearchGate

2014

Hahn, T., Preuss, L., Pinkse, J., & Figge, F. (2014). Cognitive frames in corporate sustainability: Managerial sensemaking with paradoxical and business case frames. Academy of Management Review, 39(4), 463-487.  AMR; ResearchGate

Hahn, T., & Pinkse, J. (2014). Private environmental governance through cross-sector partnerships: Tensions between competition and effectiveness. Organization & Environment, 27(2), 140-160. O&E; ResearchGate

Bohnsack, R., Pinkse, J., & Kolk, A. (2014). Business models for sustainable technologies: Exploring business model evolution in the case of electric vehicles. Research Policy, 43(2), 284-300. RP; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J., Bohnsack, R., & Kolk, A. (2014). The role of public and private protection in disruptive innovation: The automotive industry and the emergence of low-emission vehicles. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31(1), 43-60. JPIM; ResearchGate

2013

Pinkse, J., & Busch, T. (2013). The emergence of corporate carbon norms: Strategic directions and managerial implications. Thunderbird International Business Review, 55(6): 633-645. TIBR; ResearchGate

2012

Pinkse, J., & Kolk, A. (2012). Multinational enterprises and climate change: Exploring institutional failures and embeddedness. Journal of International Business Studies, 43(3): 332-341. JIBS; ResearchGate

Winn, M., Pinkse, J., & Illge, L. (2012). Case studies on trade-offs in corporate sustainability. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 19(2): 63-68. CSR-EM; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J., & Kolk, A. (2012). Addressing the climate change – sustainable development nexus: The role of multistakeholder partnerships. Business & Society, 51(1): 176-210. B&S; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J., & van den Buuse, D. (2012). The development and commercialization of solar PV technology in the oil industry. Energy Policy, 40: 11-20. EP; ResearchGate

2011

Marcus, A., Aragon-Correa, J. A., & Pinkse, J. (2011). Firms, regulatory uncertainty, and the natural environment: What can we expect? What should managers do? California Management Review, 54(1): 5-16. CMR; ResearchGate

Fortanier, F., Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2011). Harmonization in CSR reporting: MNEs and global CSR standards. Management International Review, 51(5): 665-696. MIR; ResearchGate

2010

Pinkse, J., Kuss, M. J., & Hoffmann, V. H. (2010). On the implementation of a ‘global’ environmental strategy: The role of absorptive capacity. International Business Review, 19(2): 160-177. IBR; ResearchGate

Hahn, T., Figge, F., Pinkse, J., & Preuss, L. (2010). Trade-offs in corporate sustainability: You can’t have your cake and eat it. Business Strategy and the Environment, 19: 217-229. BSE; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J., & Kolk, A. (2010). Challenges and trade-offs in corporate innovation for climate change. Business Strategy and the Environment, 19(4): 261-272. BSE; ResearchGate

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2010). The integration of corporate governance in corporate social responsibility disclosures. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 17(1): 15-26. CSR-EM; ResearchGate

2009

Pinkse, J., & Dommisse, M. (2009). Overcoming barriers to sustainability: An explanation of residential builders’ reluctance to adopt clean technologies. Business Strategy and the Environment, 18(8): 515-527. BSE; ResearchGate

2008

Kolk, A., Levy, D., & Pinkse, J. (2008). Corporate responses in an emerging climate regime: The institutionalization and commensuration of carbon disclosure. European Accounting Review, 17(4): 719-745. EAR; ResearchGate

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2008). A perspective on multinational enterprises and climate change: Learning from ‘an inconvenient truth’? Journal of International Business Studies, 39(8): 1359-1378. JIBS; ResearchGate

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2008). Business and climate change: Emergent institutions in global governance. Corporate Governance, 8(4): 419-429. CG; ResearchGate

2007

Pinkse, J., & Kolk, A. (2007). Multinational corporations and emissions trading: Strategic responses to new institutional constraints. European Management Journal, 25(6): 441-452. EMJ; ResearchGate

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2007). Towards strategic stakeholder management? Integrating perspectives on sustainability challenges such as corporate responses to climate change. Corporate Governance, 7(4): 370-378. CG; ResearchGate

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2007). Multinationals’ political activities on climate change. Business & Society, 46(2): 201-228. B&S; ResearchGate

Pinkse, J. (2007). Corporate intentions to participate in emission trading. Business Strategy and the Environment, 16(1): 12-25. BSE; ResearchGate

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2007). Bedrijfsstrategieën en het klimaatprobleem. Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie, 81(1/2): 697-703. MAB; ResearchGate

2006

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2006). Stakeholder mismanagement and corporate social responsibility crises. European Management Journal, 24(1): 59-72. EMJ; ResearchGate

2005

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2005). Business responses to climate change: Identifying emergent strategies. California Management Review, 47(3): 6-20. CMR; ResearchGate

2004

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2004). Market strategies for climate change. European Management Journal, 22(3): 304-314. EMJ; ResearchGate

Book Chapters

2025

Krull, E., & Pinkse, J. (2025). Sustanability. In B. Grossmann-Hensel, P. Jarzabkowski, R. Kratochvil, D. Seidl, P. Spee, R. Whittington (Eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing

2023

Matoh, S., Roelich, K., & Pinkse, J. (2023). Business models for sustainability: The current state of the literature and future research directions. In S. Russell & R. Padfield (Eds.) A Research Agenda for Sustainability and Business. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Book; ResearchGate

2022

Preuss, L., Pinkse, J., Hahn, T., & Figge, F. (2022). Travelled Roads and Novel Vistas: Taking Stock of Empirical Studies into Tensions in Business Sustainability. In T. Maak, N. M. Pless, M. Orlitzky, S. Sandhu (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility. New York: Routledge. Full-text; ResearchGate

2019

Pinkse, J. (2019). Firms, institutions and politics: The role of corporate political activity in sustainable innovation. In F. Boons & A. McMeekin (Eds.) Handbook of Sustainable Innovation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. Full-text; ResearchGate

2015

Pinkse, J. (2015). Corporations. In P. Pattberg, & F. Zelli (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia on Global Environmental Politics and Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Full-text

Pinkse, J. (2015). Environmental management. In M. Vodosek, & D. den Hartog (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, 3rd edition. Volume 6 International Management. (3 ed., Vol. 6). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Full-text

2012

Busch, T., & Pinkse, J. (2012). Reconciling Stakeholder Requests and Carbon Dependency: What is the Right Climate Strategy? In A. Lindgreen, P. Kotler, F. Maon, & J. Vanhamme (Eds.), A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility: Pressures, Conflicts, Reconciliation. Aldershot: Gower Press. Full-text

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2012). Multinational Enterprises and Climate Change Strategies. In A. Verbeke, & H. Merchant (Eds.), Handbook of Research in International Strategic Management. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Full-text

2010

Caprar, D., Gao, J., Haezendonck, E., Pinkse, J., & Tams, S. (2010). Academic Theory. In D. de Lange (Ed.), Research Companion to Green International Management Studies: A Guide for Future Research, Collaboration and Review Writing. (pp. 142-172). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Full-text

Kolk, A., Pinkse, J., & Hull van Houten, L. (2010). Corporate responses to climate change: The role of partnerships. In P. Martens, & C. T. Chang (Eds.), The Social and Behavioural Aspects of Climate Change: Linking Vulnerability, Adaptation and Mitigation. (pp. 48-67). Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing. Full-text

2008

Pinkse, J. (2008). The implementation of emissions trading in companies. In R. Antes, B. Hansjürgens, & P. Letmathe (Eds.), Emissions Trading – Institutional Design, Decision Making and Corporate Strategies. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag. Full-text

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2008). Milieu en ondernemingsgedrag. In F. Oosterhuis (Ed.), 21 jaar milieueconomie in Nederland. Amsterdam: IVM.

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2008). The influence of climate change regulation on corporate responses: the case of emissions trading. In R. Sullivan (Ed.), Corporate Responses to Climate Change: Achieving Emissions Reductions Through Regulation, Self-Regulation and Economic Incentives. (pp. 43-57). Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing.

2005

Kolk, A., & Pinkse, J. (2005). The evolution of multinationals’ responses to climate change. In J. Hooker, A. Kolk, & P. Madsen (Eds.), Perspectives on International Corporate Responsibility. Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center.