Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

Current editor(s): Michelle Greenwood and R. Edward Freeman

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Volume 200, issue 2, 2025

“A Sane Island in an Ocean of Madness”: A Case of Alternative Organisational Ethics Through Post-Growth Values pp. 233-253

Ben Robra, Alex Pazaitis and Arnaud Levy

Multispecies Ethics and Space: Coexisting with Wolves pp. 255-268

Géraldine Paring

CEO Activism and Political Mobilization pp. 269-285

Young Hou and Christopher Poliquin

Serving as an Ethical Signal: Understanding How and When Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Inhibits Time Theft pp. 287-305

Bo Lv, Jie Xiao, Yinxu Zhou, Chenghao Men, Fengyu Li and Haomin Chen

Supporting and Humiliating Dignity with Biometric Technologies: An Affordance Perspective pp. 307-324

Jayson Killoran, Jasmin Manseau, Andrew Park and Jan Kietzmann

In Moderation: Automation in the Digital Public Sphere pp. 325-341

Diana Acosta Navas

The Shadow of Peer Death Among Rank-and-File Employees: Evidence from Audit Office pp. 343-371

Xingqiang Du, Lirong Shentu and Yuhui Xie

Security and Privacy Protection in Developing Ethical AI: A Mixed-Methods Study from a Marketing Employee Perspective pp. 373-392

Xuequn Wang, Xiaolin Lin and Bin Shao

State Ownership, Environmental Regulation, and Corporate Green Investment: Evidence from China’s 2015 Environmental Protection Law Changes pp. 393-416

Thomas J. Chemmanur, Bo Cheng, Zi-Tian Wang and Qianqian Yu

Collectivist Culture and Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from China pp. 417-443

Huijie Cui, Shiqiang Chen, Dongmin Kong and Yonggen Luo

Unveiling Investor Motivation and Trust in Impact Investing: Evidence from Global Green Bond Issuances pp. 445-468

Chaoxi Liang, Xiaoming Ma and Xiawei Liao

Correction to: A ‘Grey’ Side of Family Business Ethics? Looking into the Interplay of Internal and External Ethical Orientations: Empirical Insights from the Wine Industry pp. 469-469

Elena Casprini, Rocco Palumbo, Jacopo Cammeo and Lorenzo Zanni

Volume 200, issue 1, 2025

Examining Love as a Central Ethic of Leadership: a Kierkegaardian and Feminist Reading pp. 1-12

Edward Wray-Bliss and Irene E. Pater

Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care pp. 13-30

Nina Mesiranta, Malla Mattila, Outi Koskinen and Elina Närvänen

Women Harmonizing Sustainability Practices for a Circular Bioeconomy: Can They Transform from Within Organizations? pp. 31-53

Alexia Sanz-Hernández, Irene Zarauz, Paula Jiménez-Caballero and María Esther López Rodríguez

Unveiling Her Efforts: Gender Diversity’s Impact on Performance Commitments in M&As pp. 55-90

Xiang Luo and Jianan Zhou

Can Perfectionists Be Cheaters? The Roles of Fear of Performance Failure and Supervisor Bottom-Line Mentality pp. 91-114

Li Guo, Jih-Yu Mao, Xinyan Mu and Yamei Cai

Employee Moral Evaluation of Supervisor Leniency for Coworkers’ Misconduct: The Role of Attributed Altruistic and Instrumental Motives pp. 115-135

Shike Li, Bin Ma and Ivana Radivojevic

When and Why Negative Supervisor Gossip Yields Functional and Dysfunctional Consequences on Subordinate Interactive Behaviors pp. 137-155

Chen Ding, Mengting Su, Jialiang Pei, Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu and Shuming Zhao

From Deception to Rejection: Unraveling the Impact of Workplace Cheating Behavior on Coworker Ostracism pp. 157-173

Yijiao Ye, Long-Zeng Wu, Ho Kwong Kwan and Xinyu Liu

Reasonable Precaution or Unjust Discrimination? Applying a Lexical Utility Model of the Precautionary Principle to Moral Choices pp. 175-188

Thomas Boyer-Kassem and Sébastien Duchêne

“The Gut Instinct Gives You Direction and then You Follow it”: Exploring the Social-Intuitive Dimension of Auditor Skepticism pp. 189-205

Yasser Alnafisah, Mouna Hazgui and Anna Samsonova-Taddei

Choices and Effects of Different Green Labels in the EU Bond Market pp. 207-229

Peng Zhou, Shijie Jin, Khelifa Mazouz and Wenjie Ding

Publisher Correction: Choices and Effects of Different Green Labels in the EU Bond Market pp. 231-231

Peng Zhou, Shijie Jin, Khelifa Mazouz and Wenjie Ding

Volume 199, issue 4, 2025

Artificial Aesthetics and Ethical Ambiguity: Exploring Business Ethics in the Context of AI-driven Creativity pp. 671-692

Cheng Xu, Yanqi Sun and Haibo Zhou

Work Integration of People with Mental Disorders Through Social Enterprise: A Humanistic-Personalist Framework and Case Study pp. 693-713

Iñigo Gallo and Domènec Melé

Racial Justice Without Character: Business Ethics, Diversity Training, and Distributed Cognition pp. 715-729

Abraham Singer

Corporate Weakness of Will pp. 731-747

Kenneth Silver

Demoralizing Markets: Vendor Conscience and Impersonalism pp. 749-759

Mark Peacock

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: The Impact of Job Insecurity on Workplace Cheating Behavior pp. 761-775

Yijiao Ye, Xinyu Liu, Long-Zeng Wu, Xuan-Mei Cheng and Ho Kwong Kwan

Satisfaction with Life as an Entrepreneur: From Early Volition to Eudaimonia pp. 777-798

Nadav Shir, Johan Wiklund and Srikant Manchiraju

Evaluating Negotiators Who Deceptively Communicate Anger or Happiness: On the Importance of Morality, Sociability, and Competence pp. 799-817

Zi Ye, Gert-Jan Lelieveld and Eric Dijk

Taking Stock of Ethics and Compliance Programs as Anticorruption Mechanisms: An Integrative Review pp. 819-837

Renato L. P. Chaves and Emmanuel B. Raufflet

Exploring the Coping Strategies of Bullying Targets in Organisations Through Abductive Reasoning: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach pp. 839-861

Chia-Hao Ho, Marco Campenni, Constantine Manolchev, Duncan Lewis and Navonil Mustafee

Robots as Moral Persons: Exploring AI Ethics in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model pp. 863-868

Kevin T. Jackson

Volume 199, issue 3, 2025

Institutionalizing Sustainability: The Role of Multiple Logics in B Corp Course Integration pp. 481-494

Maija Lähteenkorva

Deepening the Conversation on Systemic Sustainability Risks: A Social-Ecological Systems Approach pp. 495-506

Hanna Ahlström, Amanda Williams, Emmy Wassénius and Andrea S. Downing

Dilemmas of Care (Re) Allocation: Care and Consumption in Pandemic Times pp. 507-527

Teresa Heath, Samanthika Gallage, Andreas Chatzidakis and Martina Hutton

The Sociable and the Deviant: A Latent Profile Analysis of HEXACO and the Dark Triad pp. 529-547

Minnie H. C. She, Richard Ronay and Deanne N. den Hartog

Managers Behaving Unethically: Coping with the Ebb and Flow of Job Insecurity Through Abusive Supervision pp. 549-563

Fu Yang, Xiaoyu Huang, Hong Deng, Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro, Mengying Xie and Zihan Zhou

Alliance Termination After Corporate Misconduct: An Integrated Model of Power and Scrutiny Effects pp. 565-582

Xu Jiang and Lulu Shi

Bank Digitalization and Capital Reallocation pp. 583-601

Sirui Wu, Haowen Tian and Ela Aden

Confucian Culture, Climate Risk, and Corporate Environmental Information Disclosure Quality: Evidence from China pp. 603-625

Yuedong Li and Xiaoyue Yao

Exploring the Implications of Working Conditions for Corporate Sustainability in Last-Mile Delivery Platform Companies pp. 627-651

Annachiara Longoni, Sergio Salas, Cristina Sancha, Vicenta Sierra and Frank Wiengarten

Judging in the Dark: How Delivery Riders Form Fairness Perceptions Under Algorithmic Management pp. 653-670

Yuan Xiang, Jing Du, Xue Ni Zheng, Li Rong Long and Huan Yan Xie

Volume 199, issue 2, 2025

Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders pp. 231-253

Nil Gulari, Anna Dziuba, Anna Hannula and Johanna Kujala

Executive Presentations and Environmental Action in Polluting Industries: Moderating Effects of Narrative and Numeric Concreteness on Aspirational Talk pp. 255-283

Jaemin Kim, Joy Jiang and Michael Greiner

Media Reporting of Environmental Supply Chain Sustainability Risks: Contextual and Moderating Factors pp. 285-308

Ivana Mateska, Stephan M. Wagner and Laura Stienen

H-1B Visas and Wages in Accounting: Evidence from Big 4 Payroll and the Ethics of H-1B Visas pp. 309-330

Thomas Bourveau, Derrald Stice, Han Stice and Roger White

How and When Does Employee Creativity Relate to Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior? Unmasking the Negative Side of Organizational Creativity pp. 331-349

Imran Hameed, Ghulam Ali Arain, Irfan Hameed, Ancy Gamage and Michael K. Muchiri

A Profit Cap is not yet a General Moral Duty for Companies: A Corporate Social Contract Perspective pp. 351-364

Muel Kaptein

Self-Interest over Ethics: Firm Withdrawal from Russia After the Ukraine Invasion pp. 365-391

Pankaj C. Patel and Jack I. Richter

What Happens When Your Hand is in My Pocket: The Foreign Policy Effects of China’s Foreign Direct Investment in Africa pp. 393-412

Hermann Achidi Ndofor, Carla D. Jones and Mengge Li

Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions pp. 413-436

Jingbin He, Bo Liu and Hong Zou

The Impact of Visual Perspectives in Advertisements on Consumers’ Reactions to Close-to-Expiry Food pp. 437-451

Lu Monroe Meng, Eileen Yiran Zhang, Shen Duan and Ce Liang

Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t pp. 453-479

Stephanie Nguyen, Daisy Bertrand, Sylvie Llosa and Mathieu Alemany Oliver

Volume 199, issue 1, 2025

Can Ethical Texts Achieve Clarity? Whistleblowing Texts in the UK Banking Sector and the Ethical Clarity Framework pp. 1-17

Elizabeth Hornby

Navigating Between Control and Trust: The Whistleblowing Mindset pp. 19-35

Paulina Arroyo, Leslie Berger and Nadia Smaili

The Duty Speech Loophole in Whistleblower Protection: Why We Need Retroactive Causality to Avoid Moral Luck pp. 37-53

Wim Vandekerckhove and Geert Demuijnck

‘Should I Tell?’ Moral Reflexivity in 14 Whistleblower Autobiographies pp. 55-70

Thomas Olesen

Warding Off Cognitive Dissonance: How Supervisor Perspective Taking Shapes the Responses of Employees Who Engage in Unethical Behavior pp. 71-84

Bulin Zhang, Xiangmin Liu and Zhengtang Zhang

Sameness and/or Otherness: What Matters More for Narcissist CEOs in the Context of Non-market Strategy? pp. 85-112

Marwan Al-Shammari, Soumendra Nath Banerjee, Abdul Rasheed, Hussam Al-Shammari and Krist Swimberghe

Financial Shared Service Centers and Corporate Misconduct: Evidence from China pp. 113-139

Wang Dong, Yuan Meng, Jun Chen and Yun Ke

The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance pp. 141-162

Eun-Ji Oh, Youngsang Kim and Yangxin Wang

Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors pp. 163-182

Lixin Chen, Qingxiong Weng, Anastasiia Popelnukha and Hui Jiang

Board Gender Diversity and Within-Firm Wage Inequity: Evidence from the Relaxation of China’s One-Child Policy pp. 183-205

Ni Qin, Dongmin Kong, Ling Zhu and Mengxu Xiong

Does Price Personalization Ethically Outperform Unitary Pricing? A Thought Experiment and a Simulation Study pp. 207-227

Deni Mazrekaj, Mark D. Verhagen, Ajay Kumar and Daniel Muzio

Correction to: Value, Values, and Valuation: The Marketization of Charitable Foundation Impact Investing pp. 229-229

Kirsten Andersen and Rebecca Tekula