My research focuses on corporate sustainability, responsible business practices, and the relationship between social and environmental performance and financial markets. I am particularly interested in understanding how firms can create long-term value while addressing stakeholder concerns and contributing to sustainable development.

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Professor Ioannis Ioannou

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Harvard Business Review Articles

Working Papers

Bad News, Now What? Responding to Multiple ESG Criticisms and Issues

with O. Hawn, R. Durand

Trapped Capabilities: Capability Valuation Under Socioecological Misalignment

with L. Nardi

How Gaming Spreads: Isomorphic Pressures and the Design of Organizational Evaluation Systems

with J. Bothello, L. Bonfim

When Gaming Outruns Repair: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Evaluation Systems

with J. Bothello, L. Bonfim

Frames That Bind: When Climate-Risk Framing Drives Green Innovation

with G. Tian, Q. Xiao, H. Shen

The Social Construction of Financial Materiality: How Environmental and Social Issues Become Financially Material, and Why They Sometimes Cease to Be

with F. Ferraro, E. Marti

From Sustainability to Compliance: How Peer Environmental Regulatory Sanctions Reshape Environmental Hiring in Non-Sanctioned Firms

with W. Shi, B. Li

Contrasting Cues, Similar Stakes: Corporate Social Performance and Equity Ownership Stake Sought in M&As

with C. Li, R. Saling

Sustainability-based Differentiation: Maintaining Competitive Advantage in the Face of Industry Convergence

with G. Serafeim, R. Durand

Talk Is Not Always Cheap: What Firms Say, How They Say It, And Social Performance

with D. Crilly

Book Chapters

Beyond the Business Case: Rebuilding the Foundations of Corporate Sustainability

In an edited volume, eds. D. Gitterman, S. Shah • Brookings Institution Press, forthcoming

Leaders as System-Shapers: Creating the Conditions for Sustainability

Invited contribution in M. Balisciano, C. Leitz, C. Scott • Navigating the Business of Sustainability: A Practitioner's Guide, Elsevier, forthcoming (January 2027)

Redefining Strategy in the Age of Sustainability and Social Responsibility

with O. Hawn • Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives, 2019

The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Evidence from Four Countries

with G. Serafeim • Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives, 2019

Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets

with G. Serafeim • The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, edited by R. Eccles, B. Cheng, D. Saltzman, 2010