Business Ethics Quarterly

1991 - 2025

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Volume 28, issue 4, 2018

Networks of Giving and Receiving in an Organizational Context: Dependent Rational Animals and MacIntyrean Business Ethics pp. 377-400

Caleb Bernacchio

Doing Good Together: Competition Law and the Political Legitimacy of Interfirm Cooperation pp. 401-425

Rutger Claassen and Anna Gerbrandy

Top Management Team Characteristics and Organizational Virtue Orientation: An Empirical Examination of IPO Firms pp. 427-461

Robert E. Evert, G. Tyge Payne, Curt B. Moore and Michael S. McLeod

Social or Commercial? Innovation Strategies in Social Enterprises at Times of Turbulence pp. 463-492

Tommaso Ramus, Barbara La Cara, Antonino Vaccaro and Stefano Brusoni

Economics for the Common Good, by Jean Tirole, translated by Steven Rendall. Princeton, NJ, and Woodstock, United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 2017. 576 pp. ISBN: 978-0691175164 (French original: Économie du bien commun. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2016) pp. 493-496

Antonio Argandona

The Firm Divided: Manager-Shareholder Conflict in the Fight for Control of the Modern Corporation, by Graeme Guthrie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0190641184 pp. 497-500

John R. Boatright

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism, by Arun Sundararajan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0262034579 pp. 501-505

Chris MacDonald

The Moral Responsibility of Firms, edited by Eric W. Orts and N. Craig Smith. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2017. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0198738534 pp. 506-508

Tobey K. Scharding

Volume 28, issue 3, 2018

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Philosophical Approaches to Leadership Ethics II: Perspectives on the Self and Responsibility to Others pp. 245-250

Joanne B. Ciulla, David Knights, Chris Mabey and Leah Tomkins

Plato on Virtuous Leadership: An Ancient Model for Modern Business pp. 251-274

David C. Bauman

The Leadership Ethics of Machiavelli’s Prince pp. 275-300

Christopher E. Cosans and Christopher S. Reina

Self Constitution as The Foundation for Leading Ethically: A Foucauldian Possibility pp. 301-323

Donna Ladkin

The Normative Justification of Integrative Stakeholder Engagement: A Habermasian View on Responsible Leadership pp. 325-354

Moritz Patzer, Christian Voegtlin and Andreas Georg Scherer

Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy, by Karthik Ramanna. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0226210742 pp. 355-359

James Gaa

#republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media, by Cass R. Sunstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0691175515 pp. 360-363

Dominic Martin

The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, by Mihir A. Desai. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 223 pp. ISBN: 978-0544911130 pp. 364-368

Alejo José G. Sison

Volume 28, issue 2, 2018

Which Firms Get Punished for Unethical Behavior? Explaining Variation in Stock Market Reactions to Corporate Misconduct pp. 119-151

Edward J. Carberry, Peter-Jan Engelen and Marc Van Essen

Contracts and Hierarchies: A Moral Examination of Economic Theories of the Firm pp. 153-173

Jooho Lee

Employee Anonymous Online Dissent: Dynamics and Ethical Challenges for Employees, Targeted Organisations, Online Outlets, and Audiences pp. 175-201

Silvia Ravazzani and Alessandra Mazzei

Fiduciary Duty, Risk, and Shareholder Desert pp. 203-218

Gordon G. Sollars and Sorin Tuluca

Private Government. How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It), by Elizabeth Anderson. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-0691176512 pp. 219-223

Sandrine Blanc

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, by Robert H. Frank. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-0691167404 pp. 224-226

Wayne Eastman

Can Microfinance Work? How to Improve Its Ethical Balance and Effectiveness by Lesley Sherratt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0199383191 pp. 227-229

Marek Hudon

Deepwater Horizon: A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster, by Earl Boebert and James M. Blossom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0674545236 pp. 230-233

Rangaraj Ramanujam

Expression of Concern Regarding Jensen (2002), “Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function” pp. 237-239

Bruce Barry

Volume 28, issue 1, 2018

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Philosophical Contributions to Leadership Ethics pp. 1-14

Joanne B. Ciulla, David Knights, Chris Mabey and Leah Tomkins

The Shadow of Sophocles: Tragedy and the Ethics of Leadership pp. 15-29

Kostas Amiridis

Ethical Responsibility - An Arendtian Turn pp. 31-50

Rita A. Gardiner

The Ethics of Affective Leadership: Organizing Good Encounters Without Leaders pp. 51-69

Iain Munro and Torkild Thanem

Ethical Irony and the Relational Leader: Grappling with the Infinity of Ethics and the Finitude of Practice pp. 71-98

Carl Rhodes and Richard Badham

The Challenges of Capitalism for Virtue Ethics and the Common Good: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Kleio Akrivou and Alejo José G. Sison. Cheltanham: Edward Elgar, 2016. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-1784717902 pp. 99-102

Andrew Gustafson

Virtue at Work: Ethics for Individuals, Managers, and Organizations, by Geoff Moore. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 216 pp. ISBN: 978-0198793441 pp. 103-105

Edwin Hartman

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative, by Alasdair MacIntyre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 332 pp. ISBN: 978-1107176454 pp. 106-109

Matthew Sinnicks

Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective (second edition), by Norman E. Bowie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 234 pp. ISBN: 978-1316343210 pp. 110-113

Patricia Werhane

Volume 27, issue 4, 2017

Ethical Climates in Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda pp. 475-512

Alexander Newman, Heather Round, Sukanto Bhattacharya and Achinto Roy

Collateral Damage From the Show: Emotional Labor and Unethical Behavior pp. 513-540

Michelle C. Hong, Christopher M. Barnes and Brent A. Scott

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Gender, Business Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility: Assessing and Refocusing a Conversation pp. 541-567

Kate Grosser, Jeremy Moon and Julie Nelson

Corporate Social Responsibility and Women’s Entrepreneurship: Towards a More Adequate Theory of “Work” pp. 569-602

Mary Johnstone-Louis

Empowering Women Through Corporate Social Responsibility: A Feminist Foucauldian Critique pp. 603-631

Lauren McCarthy

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman, by Jeremy Adelman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. 740 pp. ISBN: 978-0691155678 pp. 633-636

Marc A. Cohen

Ethics and Morality in Consumption: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Deirdre Shaw, Andreas Chatzidakis, and Michal Carrington. New York: Routledge, 2016. 268 pp. ISBN: 978-1138790230 pp. 637-640

Sofía López-Rodríguez

Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life, by Edward P. Stringham. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0199365166 pp. 641-644

Sébastien Mena

Business and Human Rights: From Principles to Practice, edited by Dorothée Baumann-Pauly and Justine Nolan. New York: Routledge, 2016. 329 pp. ISBN: 978-1138833586 pp. 645-647

Michael A. Santoro

Volume 27, issue 3, 2017

No Malibu Surfer Left Behind: Three Tales About Market Coercion pp. 335-351

Åsbjørn Melkevik

Profit and Other Values: Thick Evaluation in Decision Making pp. 353-379

Bastiaan van der Linden and R. Edward Freeman

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Ethical Management of Intangible Assets in Contemporary Organizations pp. 381-392

Rossella C. Gambetti, T. C. Melewar and Kelly D. Martin

The Importance of Ethics in Branding: Mediating Effects of Ethical Branding on Company Reputation and Brand Loyalty pp. 393-422

Sharifah Faridah Syed Alwi, Sulaiman Muhammad Ali and Bang Nguyen

The Nature of the Relationship Between Corporate Identity and Corporate Sustainability: Evidence from The Retail Industry pp. 423-453

Cláudia Simões and Roberta Sebastiani

From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone, by Paul B. Thompson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 329 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-939168-4 pp. 455-458

Joseph DesJardins

Reframing Economic Ethics: The Philosophical Foundations of Humanistic Management, by Claus Dierksmeier. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 127 pp. ISBN: 978-3-3193-2299-5 pp. 459-462

Daryl Koehn

Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory, by Lisa Herzog. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-0-1987-8457-9 pp. 463-465

Michael Schleeter

The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society, by Gerald Gaus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-0-0691-15880-8 pp. 466-469

Abraham Singer

Volume 27, issue 2, 2017

The Problem of Unilateralism in Agency Theory: Towards a Bilateral Formulation pp. 163-182

Sareh Pouryousefi and Jeff Frooman

Talk Ain’t Cheap: Political CSR and the Challenges of Corporate Deliberation pp. 183-211

Cameron Sabadoz and Abraham Singer

Guest Editors’ Introduction:Corporate Sustainability Management and Environmental Ethics pp. 213-237

Douglas Schuler, Andreas Rasche, Dror Etzion and Lisa Newton

License to Critique: A Communication Perspective on Sustainability Standards pp. 239-262

Lars Thøger Christensen, Mette Morsing and Ole Thyssen

Environmental Managers and Institutional Work: Reconciling Tensions of Competing Institutional Logics pp. 263-291

Frederik Dahlmann and Johanne Grosvold

The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy, by Gerald F. Davis. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2016. 222 pp. ISBN: 978-1-62656-279-0 pp. 315-318

John R. Boatright

Managing Corporate Impacts: Co-Creating Value, by Jennifer Griffin. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 340 pp. ISBN: 9781316484944 pp. 319-322

Timothy J. Hargrave

Inequality: What Can Be Done?, by Anthony B. Atkinson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-50476-9 pp. 323-326

Dominic Martin

Free Markets with Solidarity & Sustainability: Facing the Challenge, edited by Martin Schlag and Juan A. Mercado. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016. 313 pp. ISBN: 9780813228433 pp. 327-330

Alejo José G. Sison

Volume 27, issue 1, 2017

Corporate Philanthropy and Risk Management: An Investigation of Reinsurance and Charitable Giving in Insurance Firms pp. 1-37

Mike Adams, Stefan Hoejmose and Zafeira Kastrinaki

Exploring the Impact of Job Insecurity on Employees’ Unethical Behavior pp. 39-70

Ericka R. Lawrence and K. Michele Kacmar

Political Stakeholder Theory: The State, Legitimacy, and the Ethics of Microfinance in Emerging Economies pp. 71-98

Tricia D. Olsen

Authenticity, Power, and Pluralism: A Framework for Understanding Stakeholder Evaluations of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities pp. 99-123

Paul F. Skilton and Jill M. Purdy

Donaldsonian Themes: A Commentary pp. 125-142

Thomas Donaldson

Performance and Progress: Essays on Capitalism, Business, and Society, edited by Subramanian Rangan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 472 pp. ISBN: 978-0198744283 pp. 143-146

Lisa Herzog

Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway, by Raphael Cohen-Almagor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 406 pp. ISBN: 978–1107105591 pp. 147-150

Kirsten Martin

Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking and Practice, by James E. Austin and M. May Seitanidi. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 2014. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1118531136 pp. 151-154

Luca Mongelli and Francesco Rullani

The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty, edited by Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders, and Zoë Robinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 491 pp. ISBN: 978-019026252-5 pp. 155-158

Joshua E. Perry