Business Ethics Quarterly

1991 - 2025

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Volume 29, issue 4, 2019

Pope Francis on Conscience, Gradualness, and Discernment: Adapting Amoris Laetitia for Business Ethics pp. 437-460

Caleb Bernacchio

Ethics as a Fabric: An Emotional Reflexive Sensemaking Process pp. 461-489

Pauline Fatien Diochon and Jean Nizet

Firms, Ex-offenders, and Communities: A Stakeholder Capability Enhancement Perspective pp. 491-518

Jerry Goodstein

Weeding Out Flawed Versions of Shareholder Primacy: A Reflection on the Moral Obligations That Carry Over from Principals to Agents pp. 519-544

Santiago Mejia

Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good, by Colin Mayer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 288 pp pp. 545-549

Ryan Burg

Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It), by Kent Greenfield. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 296 pp. - We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, by Adam Winkler. New York: W.W. Norton, 2018. 496 pp pp. 550-554

Amy Sepinwall

Volume 29, issue 3, 2019

Paying People to Risk Life or Limb pp. 295-316

Robert C. Hughes

The Enduring Potential of Justified Hypernorms pp. 317-342

Markus Scholz, Gastón de los Reyes and N. Craig Smith

Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives on Sustainability: A Cross-Disciplinary Review and Research Agenda for Business Ethics pp. 343-383

Frank de Bakker, Andreas Rasche and Stefano Ponte

Can Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives Improve Global Supply Chains? Improving Deliberative Capacity with a Stakeholder Orientation pp. 385-412

Vivek Soundararajan, Jill A. Brown and Andrew C. Wicks

Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society, by James R. Otteson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 250 pp pp. 413-416

Caleb Bernacchio

The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet, by Magali A. Delmas with David Colgan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 288 pp pp. 417-420

Graham Bullock

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World, by Joshua B. Freeman. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. 448 pp pp. 421-424

Blazej Kaucz

Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy, by Mary L. Hirschfeld. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 288 pp pp. 425-428

Domènec Melé and Alfredo Pastor

Volume 29, issue 2, 2019

Wage Exploitation and the Nonworseness Claim: Allowing the Wrong, To Do More Good pp. 169-188

David Faraci

Consent, Contestability, and Unions pp. 189-211

Lars Lindblom

Decasticization, Dignity, and ‘Dirty Work’ at the Intersections of Caste, Memory, and Disaster pp. 213-239

Ramaswami Mahalingam, Srinath Jagannathan and Patturaja Selvaraj

Perfectionism and the Place of the Interior Life in Business: Toward an Ethics of Personal Growth pp. 241-268

Joshua S. Nunziato and Ronald Paul Hill

The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism and the Corporate Politics of Development, by Kathryn Moeller. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. 320 pp pp. 269-272

Robbin Derry

Humanistic Management: Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well-Being, by Michael Pirson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 310 pp pp. 273-276

Christian Felber

Can Business Save the Earth? Innovating Our Way to Sustainability, by Michael Lenox and Aaron Chatterji. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 200 pp pp. 277-279

Ivan Montiel

Volume 29, issue 1, 2019

Structured Finance and the Social Contract: How Tranching Challenges Contractualist Approaches to Financial Risk pp. 1-24

Tobey Scharding

Supervisor-Subordinate (Dis)agreement on Ethical Leadership: An Investigation of its Antecedents and Relationship to Organizational Deviance pp. 25-53

Maribeth Kuenzi, Michael E. Brown, David M. Mayer and Manuela Priesemuth

The Persistence of Organizational Deviance: When Informal Sanctioning Systems Undermine Formal Sanctioning Systems pp. 55-84

Danielle E. Warren

Christian Religiosity and Corporate Community Involvement pp. 85-125

Jinhua Cui, Hoje Jo and Manuel G. Velasquez

Business Ethics for a Material World: An Ecological Approach to Object Stewardship, by Ryan Burg. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 379 pp pp. 143-146

Brian Berkey and Eric W. Orts

Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected, by Philip J. Ivanhoe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 208 pp pp. 147-150

Alicia Hennig

Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing, edited by Jennifer Arlen. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. 378 pp pp. 151-154

David Hess

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