Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Little evidence for cultural differences in automatic imitation

Individuals tend to automatically imitate others' actions. Such imitative behavior is often assumed to be a universal phenomenon. However, most prior research has focused on Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) populations, leaving open whether people a...

Family firm heterogeneity and corporate social responsibility: a literature review on internal family governance

Purpose This study summarizes earlier research on the impact of internal family governance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and CSR reporting as a major element of family firm heterogeneity. Design/methodology/approach Relying on a literature review, internal...

Board sustainability expertise: how shareholder and employee representatives shape supervisory board practice in codetermined German firms

Purpose This paper asks how sustainability expertise is constructed, distributed across shareholder and employee representatives and translated into influence through the governance channels of parity codetermined supervisory boards in German listed corporations, as European sust...

Phytotoxic impacts of microplastic pollution on cellular redox homeostasis and antioxidant defences in plants: a multilevel meta-analysis

Abstract The rapid build-up of plastic pollution in land-based ecosystems is a serious abiotic stressor that directly threatens cellular redox balance in plants. To precisely evaluate the risk of oxidative stress associated with microplastic exposure, a meta-analysis was conducte...

It's a Match, Isn't It? Developing a Checklist on Matching Secondary Data at the Example of Job Control

Few datasets simultaneously capture occupational exposures and health outcomes in a general working population. To understand associations between occupational exposures and health, researchers often combine existing datasets. As occupation codes are available in many datasets, c...

EXPRESS: Forced Choices without Resolutions: A Dialectical View of Strategic Change in an Endgame Industry

Endgame industries confront firms with intensifying contradictions. Yet little is known about how such conditions shape strategic change over time. Drawing on a longitudinal case study of Software Corp., a leader in the shrinking output management industry, we develop a dialectic...

The enabling and constraining effects of workplace accommodations on the careers of people with disabilities

This study uncovers a paradox in the use of workplace accommodations by exploring their unintended consequences on the career advancement decisions of people with disabilities. Drawing on 30 interviews with German employees across a range of disabilities, we examine how accommoda...

Gender and other diversity-related factors in psychiatric hospital care: protocol for the participatory mixed-methods PSY-DIVER study

Psychiatric hospital care is multimodal and typically comprises pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, social therapy, occupational therapy, exercise therapy, and various forms of creative therapies. The use, acceptance and effectiveness of these interventions may be shaped by gender an...

Peer Versus Top Management Communication and Energy‐Saving Behavioural Intentions in the Workplace: The Moderating Role of Personalised Framing

ABSTRACT Employee engagement is pivotal for corporate sustainability, yet the role of information design in internal employee communication remains under‐specified. Drawing on Construal Level Theory, this study examines whether the effect of information sender (peer vs top manage...

From resilience to antifragility? Satisfying human needs in a disruptive world

Abstract Calls to make ecological systems, organizations, and people “resilient” have become central to sustainability science. However, resilience is a broad term that sometimes means returning to the status quo. In a disruptive world, characterized by interconnected crises such...

Adaptive Output Feedback Control with Prescribed-Time Performance for Nonlinear Cyber–Physical Systems Under Output Constraints, Actuator Backlash, and Malicious Attacks

This paper proposes an adaptive fuzzy prescribed-time output feedback control approach for strict-feedback nonlinear cyber–physical systems (CPSs) subjected to malicious attacks, output constraints, and backlash-like hysteresis. To approximate unknown system nonlinearities, fuzzy...

Regime Shifts and Transformations in Social-Ecological Systems: Advancing Critical Frontiers for Safe and Just Futures

Current research challenges in sustainability science require us to consider nonlinear changes—shifts that do not happen gradually but can be sudden and difficult to predict. Central questions are therefore how we can prevent harmful shifts, promote desirable ones, and better ant...

The Effect of CEO Narcissism on the Quality of Environmental, Social, and Governance Reporting—Evidence From Listed German Companies

ABSTRACT This study explores how CEO narcissism—a salient individual trait within the upper echelons of corporate leadership—shapes the quality of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting in large German firms. Drawing on data from 109 DAX, MDAX, and SDAX companies b...

Economic and behavioural policy coupling has divergent effects on electric vehicle adoption at individual and system scales

Abstract Policy mixes are key to accelerating low-carbon transitions. Yet, how combined policies impact electric vehicle (EV) adoption decisions and scale up to system-level diffusion remains unclear. Here we combine individual-level and system-level analyses to investigate how a...

The Symbiocene as a transformative vision

Abstract We live in times of crises and calls for a transformative social‐ecological change are voiced increasingly often. The question is, however, how such a transformation could be achieved. The prevailing view is that we are living in an era in which human activities signific...

Plant species richness is key for restoring grassland butterfly assemblages

Abstract Palaearctic grasslands are heavily threatened by land‐use changes that lead to degradation and habitat loss. Thus, successful grassland restoration for vegetation and wildlife is urgently needed. Butterflies, as sensitive indicators, could provide a holistic view of rest...