Publications

ROBUST researchers contribute to scholarship on sustainable business, organizational change, entrepreneurship, consumption, business ethics and sustainability education. This page presents selected research highlights and publications by researchers affiliated with ROBUST. The publications listed were not necessarily carried out as ROBUST projects.

Research highlights

Selected publications illustrate the breadth of research conducted by ROBUST-affiliated researchers.

Making Sustainability Tensions Salient: Changing Information or People?

Siarhei Manzhynski, Frank Figge and Andrea Stevenson Thorpe · Business Strategy and the Environment · 2025
Sustainability dilemmas often remain invisible to decision-makers. The paper develops a situation–information–cognition framework showing how changing the complexity of information, as well as developing cognition, can help people recognize competing sustainability demands.

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Agreeing to Disagree: Linear-Circular and Public-Private Tensions in the Transformation to Circular Business Models

Herman I. Stål, Siarhei Manzhynski and Maria Bengtsson · Organization & Environment · 2025
Drawing on a four-year study of public–private collaboration, the article shows how disagreements about circular and linear business models shape change. Rather than treating disagreement only as a barrier, it demonstrates how partners can learn from tensions and gradually arrive at workable combinations.

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Navigating Tensions Between Economic and Social Integration Among Immigrant Family Entrepreneurs: A Paradox Perspective

Quang David Evansluong, Siarhei Manzhynski and Eva Karayianni · Entrepreneurship & Regional Development · 2026
Immigrant family entrepreneurs face persistent demands for both economic security and social integration. The study explains how family relationships can either ease or intensify these tensions, offering insights for entrepreneurship support and integration policy.

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Addressing Climate Change Through Social Innovation Initiatives

Lucas Haskell, Karl Johan Bonnedahl and Herman Stål · Journal of Social Entrepreneurship · 2024
This study examines how social innovation initiatives can help address climate change by changing everyday social practices. It identifies the importance of social motives, inspiration, participation and material resources for climate-oriented social innovation.

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sustainability in Higher Education: A Sustainability Competence Support Model

Alice Annelin and Gert-Olof Boström · Frontiers in Sustainability · 2024
Based on conversations with university teachers across disciplines and countries, the article explores how sustainability education can better support transformative learning. It proposes a competence-based support model that emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and real-world practice.

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How Consumers’ Emotions About Transport Policies Shape Their Adoption of Sustainable Transport

Zeinab Rezvani, Stefanie Sohn, Johan Jansson and Oliver Schnittka · International Journal of Sustainable Transportation · 2025
A study of Swedish consumers shows that emotions such as anticipated pride and relief from guilt can strengthen support for transport policies and intentions to adopt lower-emission vehicles. The findings help policymakers design communications alongside infrastructure and economic incentives.

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Recent scholarly publications (2024–2026)

Journal articles, scholarly books and book chapters. The “ROBUST authors” field identifies institute-affiliated contributors; it does not necessarily list every coauthor.

2026

Business models for building sustainability: an exploratory integrative literature review on circular economy, health and safety, digitalization, and stakeholder collaboration — Buildings (2026). ROBUST author(s): Manzhynski.
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective — Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (2026). ROBUST author(s): Evansluong, Manzhynski.
Sustainability competence mindset: building capacity with students — International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (2026). ROBUST author(s): Annelin.
A facilitating platform for transdisciplinary partnerships to co-create sustainability education — The Elgar Companion to Management Education and the Sustainable Development Goals (2026). ROBUST author(s): Annelin, Boström.
Sowing seeds for regenerative futures: transdisciplinary approaches in higher education — Introducing the UN SDGs in Higher Education Institutions (2026). ROBUST author(s): Annelin.
Social organization as transformative technology: from demand-driven growth to needs-oriented wellbeing — Sufficiency: From Growth and Overshoot to Enoughness (2026). ROBUST author(s): Bonnedahl.
The relevance of impact assessment in nascent and small-scale social entrepreneurship — Sustainability (2026). ROBUST author(s): Bonnedahl.
Impact assessment in social entrepreneurship: a staged approach for nascent and very small sustainability-oriented organisations — Journal of Social Entrepreneurship (2026). ROBUST author(s): Bonnedahl.
The effect of customers’ extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on their e-commerce store loyalty: a four-country comparison — Journal of International Consumer Marketing (2026). ROBUST author(s): Jansson.
To own or share e-scooters?: Factors in ownership and sharing of e-scooters — Research in Transportation Business & Management (2026). ROBUST author(s): Jansson.
Beyond the new: how established industry sites can power the green transition — On the Edge of Change: Nordic Energy Transitions Disrupted (2026). ROBUST author(s): Evansluong.
Enhancing online retail engagement: the role of augmented reality in product presentations — International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research (2026). ROBUST author(s): Nilsson.

2025

Coopetition and sustainability performance: examining the impact of cognitive and behavioral mechanisms — Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing (2025). ROBUST author(s): Manzhynski, Biedenbach.
Making sustainability tensions salient: changing information or people? — Business Strategy and the Environment (2025). ROBUST author(s): Manzhynski.
Agreeing to disagree: linear-circular and public-private tensions in the transformation to circular business models — Organization & Environment (2025). ROBUST author(s): Stål, Manzhynski, Bengtsson.
Building sustainability competence capacity amongst educators: uncovering interdisciplinary perspectives — Competence Building in Sustainable Development (2025). ROBUST author(s): Annelin, Boström.
Competence building in sustainable development — Springer, World Sustainability Series (2025). ROBUST author(s): Annelin, Boström.
Social values and sustainable development in business education — Environmental Sciences Europe (2025). ROBUST author(s): Annelin, Boström.
Operationalizing the European sustainability competence framework: Development and validation of learning outcomes for GreenComp — Open Research Europe (2025). ROBUST author(s): Annelin.
An integrative review of challenges and strategies in the work of cultural entrepreneurs — Creativity and Innovation Management (2025). ROBUST author(s): Eriksson.
The effect of engagement on revisit intentions across visitation formats: insights from the World Heritage Site of Pompeii — Current Issues in Tourism (2025). ROBUST author(s): Jansson.
Eco-friendly brand experience and brand loyalty: investigating the impact of normative considerations in the electric vehicle context — Journal of Marketing Management (2025). ROBUST author(s): Herbert, Biedenbach, Jansson.
Examining senior citizens in public transport: the role of digitalization, environmental concern, and traveler satisfaction — Travel Behaviour & Society (2025). ROBUST author(s): Jansson.
Traveler perceived service quality and satisfaction with public transport: the influence of digital competence and environmental attitudes — Transport Policy (2025). ROBUST author(s): Jansson.
How consumers’ emotions about transport policies shape their adoption of sustainable transport — International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (2025). ROBUST author(s): Jansson.
Sounding bodies along the UKK hiking trail, Finland — Tourism Geographies (2025). ROBUST author(s): Vlasov.
The art of making fire-with — Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (2025). ROBUST author(s): Vlasov.
Paradoxical tensions across multiple levels and top management team cross-level bridging in coopetition: a conceptual model — Strategic Management Review (2025). ROBUST author(s): Bengtsson.
Economic success in unexpected places: spatial anomalies in Swedish retailing — Contemporary Perspectives on Shopping, Retail and Tourism (2025). ROBUST author(s): Nilsson.
Communicating antimicrobial resistance on Instagram: content analysis of #AntibioticResistance — JMIR Infodemiology (2025). ROBUST author(s): Nilsson.
Antimicrobial resistance and the non-accountability effect on consumers' behaviour — Social Responsibility Journal (2025). ROBUST author(s): Nilsson.
Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship — International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research (2025). ROBUST author(s): Evansluong.
Ethnicity and religion as symbolic capitals: learning from the case of diaspora Cypriot entrepreneurs in the UK during 1960–1963 — Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Religion, and Ethnicity (2025). ROBUST author(s): Evansluong.
Regional clustering in Swedish entrepreneurship: how do immigrant and native startups compare? — Journal of Comparative International Management (2025). ROBUST author(s): Evansluong.
The dark side of conscientious branding: exploring the interplay between moral failures and organizational resilience — Journal of Brand Management (2025). ROBUST author(s): Biedenbach.

2024

Audit team competence, auditor motivation and audit quality threatening behaviour — International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation (2024). ROBUST author(s): Annelin.
Interdisciplinary perspectives on sustainability in higher education: a sustainability competence support model — Frontiers in Sustainability (2024). ROBUST author(s): Annelin, Boström.
Sustainability competence assessment validation — Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practices (2024). ROBUST author(s): Annelin, Boström.
Audit Team Distance and Audit Quality Threatening Behavior — Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (2024). ROBUST author(s): Annelin.
Audit team diversity, work quality and affective state outcomes — International Journal of Auditing (2024). ROBUST author(s): Annelin.
Addressing climate change through social innovation initiatives — Journal of Social Entrepreneurship (2024). ROBUST author(s): Haskell, Bonnedahl, Stål.
Online content creators’ and viewers’ interdependent journeys — Services Marketing Quarterly (2024). ROBUST author(s): Jansson.
Engaging consumers through artificially intelligent technologies: Systematic review, conceptual model, and further research — Psychology & Marketing (2024). ROBUST author(s): Jansson.
Consumers’ online brand-related misinformation engagement: a weapons of influence perspective — Journal of Strategic Marketing (2024). ROBUST author(s): Jansson.
Coopetitive dynamics, really?: towards an interaction perspective on coopetition — Industrial Marketing Management (2024). ROBUST author(s): Bengtsson.
Family heterogeneity and migrant entrepreneurship — Handbook on Migrant Entrepreneurship (2024). ROBUST author(s): Evansluong.

Other research outputs (2024–2026)

Conference papers, reports, dissertations and editorial outputs, separately identified from the principal scholarly bibliography.

2026

When (not) everything becomes a paradox: Necessary and sufficient conditions for organizational paradox — EGOS Colloquium, Bergamo (2026); conference contribution. ROBUST author(s): Manzhynski.
When what beats how much: rethinking coopetition for sustainability — GRONEN Conference, Barcelona (2026); conference contribution. ROBUST author(s): Manzhynski.
Fireweed stories of more-than-human survival — Proceedings of the Sustainable Naturecultures and Multispecies Futures Symposium (2026); proceedings chapter. ROBUST author(s): Vlasov.
From liability to asset: gaining legitimacy from otherness among migrant and minority entrepreneurs — EURAM Conference, Kristiansand (2026); conference contribution. ROBUST author(s): Evansluong.
Guest editorial: past, present and future changes in migrant entrepreneurship landscape — Journal of Organizational Change Management (2026); editorial. ROBUST author(s): Evansluong.
Weaving otherwise: gender, alternative practices, and the remaking of entrepreneurship — Studier i företagsekonomi, Serie B, 112 (2026); doctoral thesis. ROBUST author(s): Le.

2025

Paradox as an illusion: the Buddhist perspective on organizational paradox — EGOS Colloquium, Athens (2025); conference contribution. ROBUST author(s): Manzhynski.
Preface [Competence Building in Sustainable Development] — Competence Building in Sustainable Development (2025); preface. ROBUST author(s): Annelin, Boström.
Sustainable consumption in the electric vehicle context: Investigating the effects of norms, branding, and spillover — Studier i företagsekonomi, Serie B, 111 (2025); doctoral thesis. ROBUST author(s): Herbert.
Tekniska lösningar för att underlätta produktvisualisering — Handelsrådet, Forskningsrapport 2025:5 (2025); research report. ROBUST author(s): Nilsson.
Nya utmaningar prövar handelns konkurrenskraft — Handelsrådet (2025); research report. ROBUST author(s): Nilsson.
Beyond the blame game: fostering consumer engagement in addressing antimicrobial resistance — Future Microbiology (2025); commentary / perspective. ROBUST author(s): Nilsson.

2024

When 'what' is more important than 'how much': an economic goods perspective to value creation and appropriation in coopetition for sustainability — EGOS Colloquium, Milan (2024); conference contribution. ROBUST author(s): Manzhynski.
Untangling coopetitive tensions for sustainability: a system dynamics exploration — International System Dynamics Conference, Bergen (2024); conference contribution. ROBUST author(s): Manzhynski, Bengtsson, Stål.
Normative antecedents of pro-environmental behaviour: investigating the impact on eco-friendly brand experience and brand loyalty towards electric vehicles — Global Brand Conference, Edinburgh (2024); conference contribution. ROBUST author(s): Herbert, Biedenbach, Jansson.
Social innovation and environmental sustainability: towards strongly sustainable social innovation — Studier i företagsekonomi, Serie B, 110 (2024); doctoral thesis. ROBUST author(s): Haskell.
Consumer-facing technology in retailing: how technology shapes customer experience in physical and digital stores — International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research (2024); editorial / introduction. ROBUST author(s): Nilsson.
Handeln i snabb utveckling: med ökad produktivitet och servicekvalitet — Handelns ekonomiska råd (2024); research report. ROBUST author(s): Nilsson.

Earlier publications (2018–2023)

Historical entries preserved from the existing ROBUST Publications page.

2023

Vlasov, Maxim; Heikkurinen, Pasi; Bonnedahl, Karl Johan (2023). Suffering catalyzing ecopreneurship: Critical ecopsychology of organizations. Organization, 30(4), 668–693.
Nguyen, Paige Trang Huyen; Evansluong, Quang; Vincze, Zsuzsanna (2023). Returnee Entrepreneurship: A Thematic and Integrative Literature Review. Proceedings of EURAM.
Nguyen, Hieu; Evansluong, Quang; Kazlou, Aliaksei (2023). Recent trends in Sweden’s new business formation: how do immigrant and native startups compare?. 49th Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting.
Ljungkvist, Torbjörn; Evansluong, Quang; Boers, Börje (2023). Family influences on entrepreneurial orientation in immigrant entrepreneurship. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, 29(11), 241–267.

2022

Nguyen, Hieu; Evansluong, Quang; Kazlou, Aliaksei (2022). Recent trends in Sweden's business formation and entrepreneurship: an empirical hot-spot examination hot-spot examination of the spatial embeddedness hypothesis. Western Regional Science Association Annual Meeting.
Flores, Phil Justice; Jansson, Johan (2022). SPICe - Determinants of consumer green innovation adoption across domains: a systematic review of marketing journals and suggestions for a research agenda. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 46(5), 1761–1784.
Ramirez Pasillas, Marcela; Evansluong, Quang (2022). Contextualizing sustainable entrepreneurship through different religions: q study of Buddhism and Confucianism in Vietnamese sustainable enterprises. EURAM 2022.
Evansluong, Quang; Ramirez Pasillas, Marcela (2022). Kinship-based opportunity development among migrant entrepreneurs. EURAM 2022.

2021

Jansson, Johan (2021). Circular economy and sustainable consumption: suggestions for ethical marketing. The SAGE Handbook of Marketing Ethics, pp. 215–225.
Bonnedahl, Karl Johan (2021). An economy beyond instrumental rationality. Sustainability Beyond Technology, pp. 203–229.
Grip, Lena; Evansluong, Quang (2021). From Disadvantage to Advantage: Digital performance of ethnicity in migrant entrepreneurship. Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday, ECREA, p. 68.
Rezvani, Zeinab; Sohn, Stefanie; Jansson, Johan; et al. (2021). Proud and Relieved?: How Consumers' Emotions towards an Environmental Policy Affect Perceived Policy Effectiveness and Pro-Environmental Behavior. Proceedings of the European Marketing Academy, 50th.
Flores, Phil Justice; Jansson, Johan (2021). The role of consumer innovativeness and green perceptions on green innovation use: The case of shared e-bikes and e-scooters. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 20(6), 1466–1479.
Ngo, Vi Dung; Evansluong, Quang; Janssen, Frank; et al. (2021). Social Capital Inequality and Capital Structure of New Firms in a Developing Country: The Role of Bank Ties. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, 27(7), 1649–1673.
Vlasov, Maxim; Ekberg, Kristoffer (2021). Inre uppror och utopiskt platsskapande: gröna vågor i 1970-talets och dagens Sverige. Fronesis, 72–73, 109–126.
Vlasov, Maxim (2021). In Transition Toward the Ecocentric Entrepreneurship Nexus: How Nature Helps Entrepreneur Make Venture More Regenerative Over Time. Organization & Environment, 34(4), 559–580.
Evansluong, Quang; Ramirez Pasillas, Marcela (2021). From Family Embeddedness to Families Embedding in Migrants' Opportunity Development Processes. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2021(1).

2020

Vlasov, Maxim (2020). Ecological embedding: stories of back-to-the-land ecopreneurs and energy descent. Studier i företagsekonomi, Serie B.
Jansson, Johan; Eckerberg, Katarina; Nilsson, Jonas; et al. (2020). Perspectives on sustainability in Sweden: stuck between two paradigms?. The Future of the North – Sustainability in Nordic Countries, pp. 167–216.
Manzhynski, Siarhei; Bengtsson, Maria; Stål, Herman (2020). Knowledge sharing for corporate sustainability – a system dynamics approach. Academy of Management Proceedings.
Manzhynski, Siarhei; Stål, Herman; Bengtsson, Maria (2020). Dealing with knotted paradoxes: A system dynamics approach to coopetition for sustainability. 36th EGOS Colloquium.
Manzhynski, Siarhei; Figge, Frank (2020). Making paradoxical tensions salient: changing information not people. Academy of Management Proceedings.
Stål, Herman; Babri, Maira (2020). Educational interventions for sustainable innovation in small and medium sized enterprises. Journal of Cleaner Production, 243.
Manzhynski, Siarhei; Figge, Frank (2020). Coopetition for sustainability: Between organizational benefit and societal good. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29, 827–837.
Evansluong, Quang; Ramirez-Pasillas, Marcela; Dana, Leo Paul (2020). Family heterogeneity and migrant entrepreneurship. EURAM Conference.

2019

Semenova, Natalia; Hassel, Lars G. (2019). Private engagement by nordic institutional investors on environmental, social, and governance risks in global companies. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 27(2), 144–161.
Semenova, Natalia; Hassel, Lars G. (2019). The Performance of Investor Engagement Dialogues to Manage Sustainability Risks. The Nordic Journal of Business, 68(2), 5–22.
Lappeman, James; Orpwood, Tessa; Russell, Meghan; et al. (2019). Personal values and willingness to pay for fair trade coffee in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Cleaner Production, 239.
Cerne, Annette; Jansson, Johan (2019). Projectification of sustainable development: implications from a critical review. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 12(2), 356–376.
Annelin, Alice (2019). Audit teams and audit quality: a sustainable development goal perspective. Studier i företagsekonomi, Serie B, 103.
Corvellec, Hervé; Stål, Herman (2019). Qualification as corporate activism: How Swedish apparel retailers attach circular fashion qualities to take-back systems. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 35(3).
Evansluong, Quang; Ramirez Pasillas, Marcela (2019). The role of family social capital in immigrants’ entrepreneurial opportunity creation processes. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 36(1–2), 164–188.
Lundberg, Hans; Ramirez Pasillas, Marcela; Dana, Leo Paul; et al. (2019). Social Enterprising for Immigrant Inclusion: An Organizing Context. OMICS 2019 conference.
Eryilmaz, Mehmet; Yeröz, Huriye; Evansluong, Quang; et al. (2019). A structured literature review on refugee entrepreneurship. Nordic Academy of Management 2019.
Eryilmaz, Mehmet; Evansluong, Quang (2019). Travel of Cuisines by the Hands of Refugee Entrepreneurs: A study on Syrian Restaurants in Turkey. RENT XXXIII conference.
Evansluong, Quang; Grip, Lena (2019). Homing and ethnicitization as strategies: turning ethnicity from disadvantage to advantage. OMICS 2019 conference.
Mitra, Amit; Evansluong, Quang; Diedrich, Andreas (2019). Liminality in narratives of integration: articulation of digital ethnicity in social media use by migrants to Sweden. OMICS 2019 conference.
Evansluong, Quang; Eryilmaz, Mehmet (2019). From Syria to Turkey: travel of cuisines by the hand of refugee entrepreneurs. OMICS 2019 conference.
Evansluong, Quang; Ramirez Pasillas, Marcela; Nguyen Bergström, Huong (2019). From breaking-ice to breaking-out: integration as an opportunity creation process. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, 25(5), 880–899.

2018

Vlasov, Maxim (2018). Ecological embedding of entrepreneurship for resilience: empirical study of regenerative agriculture. SEE Conference 2018.
Mitra, Amit; Evansluong, Quang (2018). Liminality in narratives of integration: Influence of social media use on situational ethnicity of migrants. 19th Nordic Migration Research Conference.

Latest update: 2026-11-05