Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2026

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

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Volume 208, issue 2, 2026

Whose Justice? A Turn to Relational Equality from the Experiences of Ethno-Racially Marginalised Women in Australian Workplaces pp. 243-258

Dimitria Groutsis, Christine Han, Jane O’Leary, Rose D’Almada Remedios and Annika Kaabel

Let’s Talk Stigma Out: An Interaction-Based Process of Stigma Recognition and Removal within Organizational Fields pp. 259-286

Francesca Capo, Riccardo Maiolini, Tommaso Ramus and Francesco Rullani

More Motivated to Help Male Leaders? Explaining Fatherhood Bonuses via Follower Helping pp. 287-307

Jamie L. Gloor, Susanne Braun, Jenny M. Hoobler, Huong Pham and Claudia Peus

Rewarding Ethical Leadership: Corporate LGBTQ+ Friendliness and CEO Compensation pp. 309-342

Ashrafee Hossain, Abdullah-Al Masum and Samir Saadi

Unpacking Leader Bottom-Line Mentality (BLM) in Organizations: A Meta-analytic Review of Its Drivers, Consequences, Mechanisms, and Boundary Conditions pp. 343-361

Ghulam Ali Arain, Imran Hameed, Mayowa T. Babalola, Cort W. Rudolph and Shuang Ren

The Dark Side of Guanxi HRM Practices: Moral Disengagement and Unethical Pro-supervisor Behavior pp. 363-376

Zhu Yao, Na Fu and Ulrich Leicht-Deobald

Correction to: The Dark Side of Guanxi HRM Practices: Moral Disengagement and Unethical Pro-supervisor Behavior pp. 377-378

Zhu Yao, Na Fu and Ulrich Leicht-Deobald

The Goldilocks Effect of Ethical Climate: How ‘Just Right’ Levels Drive Service Innovation pp. 379-396

Mingjun Yang, Tuan Trong Luu, Giang Hoang, Nicola McNeil and Michael Muchiri

Unethical Organizational Practices as a Stressor, Mediated by Moral Emotions and Moderated by Ethical Leadership pp. 397-416

Adam Tresidder, Emma Wituk, Jenna A. Van Fossen and Rachael H. Pyram

Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Information Sharing pp. 417-456

Yifei Chen, Dan Palmon, Chenyu Shan and Qi Zhang

Datafied Selves at Work: Ethical Boundaries of Surveillance in People Analytics pp. 457-473

Suharno Pawirosumarto and Buyung Kurniawan

Effectiveness of Formal and Informal Controls in Deterring Misreporting: The Role of Whistleblowing Mechanism and Ethical Leadership pp. 475-498

Vincent K. Chong, Muhammad Irdam Ferdiansah, Isabel Z. Wang and David R. Woodliff

Volume 208, issue 1, 2026

“If I Accomplish Nothing Else but Hope, That Will be Enough”: The Ethics and Morality of Market-Based Hope in Illness Entrepreneurship pp. 1-17

Susi Geiger and Olya Loza

The Expression of Self Through Venture Creation: Narratives of Entrepreneurial Life and Well-Being Abroad pp. 19-42

Nadav Shir, Yu Zhang and Paul Lassalle

Muddling Through During the Pre-Liminal Period: Women’s Transition to Entrepreneurship in the Midst of a Compound National Crisis pp. 43-66

Hayfaa A. Tlaiss and Dmitry Khanin

Artificial Intelligence and Disability Entrepreneurship: Moving the Field Forward pp. 67-83

Mengjie Zhang and Weiwen Li

Who Invests, Who Gets Funded: Gender and Racial Bias in LLM-Generated Investment Advice pp. 85-121

Ye Emma Wang and Kexin Gu

AI’s Hidden Price: AI Tools Reduce Donor Engagement Through Extrinsic Motivation Inferences pp. 123-140

Yujie Zhao, Pete Pengcheng Zhou and Zengxiang Chen

Bridging the Gap, Building Trust: Structural Holes as Dual Forces in Corporate Philanthropy pp. 141-156

Haifeng Wang and Weishu Liu

Reframing Sustainable Consumption: Toward an Ethical Dilemma Perspective pp. 157-175

Leila Elgaaied-Gambier, Yacine Ladli and Fanny Reniou

From Welfare to Well-Groomed: How Income Conditions Influence Moral Perception of Beauty Consumption pp. 177-196

Yu Qin, Mayuko Nishii and Kosuke Motoki

How Racial Minority Representation in Brand Communication Affects Social Media Engagement pp. 197-212

Sadaf Mokarram-Dorri and Nick J. F. Bombaij

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Ethicality in Entrepreneurs’ Creativity pp. 213-232

Md Imtiaz Mostafiz, Nazha Gali, Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Mathew Mat Hughes and Boyka Simeonova

Careless or Clueless? the Lost Promise of Facebook pp. 233-239

Joanne B. Ciulla

Correction: Careless or Clueless? The Lost Promise of Facebook pp. 241-241

Joanne B. Ciulla

Volume 207, issue 4, 2026

The Evolution of Virtue Ethics in Business: A Bibliometric and Systematic Literature Review pp. 703-729

Maria Clara Ames, Mauricio C. Serafim and Ignacio Ferrero

Distinguishing Three Concepts of the Societal Good: The Managerial Case for Adopting the Thomistic Concept of the Common Good pp. 731-744

Sara Mandray, Daryl Koehn and Matthias P. Hühn

Community-Based Cooperation and New Management Ideology: Lessons from Thomas Aquinas’ Thought pp. 745-760

Sandrine Frémeaux, Bernard Guéry and Anouk Grevin

When Darkness Dims the Social Light: The Dark Triad and Prosociality in Latin America pp. 761-779

Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi, Jill Kickul, Katrina M. Brownell, Valentina Gomes Haensel Schmitt, Milagros Isabel Rivas-Mendoza, Bernardo Fernandez, Priscila Rezende da Costa, Ximena Campos García, Verónica García Ibarra, Javier Gonzalez Nuñez, Silvia Torres Carbonell, Fausto Ignacio García, Luis Antonio Paredes Izaguirre, Arturo Orozco Leyva, Angelica Pigola and Victoria Galera

Ethical Decision-Making in Organizations in Times of Conflict: The Role of Personal Values and Collective Victimhood pp. 781-800

Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz, Inbal Moscovich, Alexandru D. Bucevschi and Amalya L. Oliver

“I’ve Crossed the Line for My Underling…”: Congruence Effect of Leader-Subordinate Trust on Unethical Pro-Subordinate Behavior pp. 801-816

Jeeyoon Jeong, Ji Hoon Lee, Ye Dai and Minyoung Cheong

A Farewell to Loyalty, a Farewell to Care? Evidence from Takeover Targets pp. 817-837

Dongxu Li and Xiaoran Ni

Making Sense of Conflicts During Management Consulting Missions: A Values-in-Practice Approach pp. 839-859

Myriam Bazdah and Florence Allard-Poesi

The Double-Edged Impact of AI Appraisals on Workplace Cheating: The Roles of Psychological Empowerment and Job Complexity pp. 861-873

Xinqiang Song, Jie Shen and Zhitian Yang

Detecting Gender Stereotype Biases Against Women Entrepreneurs in Large Language Models pp. 875-897

Xian Cao, Hongfei Li, Qingyu Xu and Ruoqing Zhu

Girls Help Girls: The Gender Preference of FOF Managers pp. 899-926

Mianzhi Wu, Yongjie Zhang, Jing Ding, Xing Cao and Xiangtong Meng

Volume 207, issue 3, 2026

What Happens After Whistleblowing? A Systematic Literature Review of the Post-whistleblowing Phase pp. 457-484

Chamari Lalanthi Edirisinghe, Wouter Vleugels, Huw Flatau-Harrison and Andrew Noblet

The Business–Social Paradox of ESG Investing: Responding to Persistent Tensions over Time pp. 485-510

Christel Dumas, Céline Louche and Rebecca Bednarek

Ethical Leadership in Climate Action: Navigating National Government Intervention, Financial Constraints, and Corporate Decarbonization pp. 511-541

Lilian Ng, Xiaoqiong Wang, Jing Yu and Nataliya Zaiats

Social Sustainability Practice: The Interplay between State and Community Logics pp. 543-561

Sithabile Chindondondo and Colin David Reddy

Exploring the Role of Health in Corporate Reporting: A Natural Language Processing (NLP)-Assisted Analysis of Corporate Proxy Statements pp. 563-581

Brittany E. Sigler, Neil Rowen, Stan Kachnowski, Lindsay Thompson, Keshia M. Pollack Porter, Sara J. Singer and Darrell J. Gaskin

Unobscuring the Concept of Tax Morale: A Systematic Review of the Literature pp. 583-595

Žiga Puklavec, Christoph Kogler, Olga Stavrova and Marcel Zeelenberg

Does the Moral Norm Initiative Affect Corporate Tax Compliance? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China pp. 597-616

Tianqi Cheng and Bo Cheng

How Does Folk Culture Affect Earnings Management? Empirical Evidence from CFOs’ Zodiac Year pp. 617-636

Huanmin Yan, Hangyu Jiang, Yutong Liu and Xiaoning Li

A ‘Sticky’ Past: The Viscosity of Organizational Memory in Navigating Ethical Change pp. 637-653

Yentl Dudink, Yvette Taminiau, Marcel Veenswijk and Nicolas Bencherki

Making Better Uses of Classics? Evaluating Critically the Legacy of Howard R. Bowen’s 1953 Social Responsibilities of the Businessman (1953–2023) pp. 655-682

Jean-Pascal Gond and Khodr Badih

Tech Ethics, Organizational Values, and Ethical Work: Insights from a Qualitative Study of Five UK-Based Digital Technology Businesses pp. 683-698

Andrew Jonathan Maile, Edward Brooks, Liz Gulliford and Rebecca Park

The Democratic Imperative in Everyone’s Business (Ron & Singer, 2024): From Negative to Positive Corporate Obligations pp. 699-702

Iwan Alijew and Benedikt D. S. Kapteina

Volume 207, issue 2, 2026

Beyond the Unethical Leader: A Dispositional Analysis of Unethical Leadership in the Case of Theranos pp. 237-252

Peter Stephenson and Richard Bolden

Executive Moral Elasticity: How Dark Personality Traits Shape Corporate Social Responsibility and Irresponsibility pp. 253-276

Pier Luigi Giardino, Matteo Cristofaro and Oleg V. Petrenko

My Oppressive Past- and Present-Day Vulnerability: Understanding How and When Authoritarian Leadership Adversely Impacts Black Employees at Work pp. 277-295

Darryl B. Rice, Shona G. Smith, Jamila S. Maxie and Erica M. Johnson

Correction: My Oppressive Past- and Present-Day Vulnerability: Understanding How and When Authoritarian Leadership Adversely Impacts Black Employees at Work pp. 297-297

Darryl B. Rice, Shona G. Smith, Jamila S. Maxie and Erica M. Johnson

The Ethical Role of Pro-Equality Laws in Reducing Executive Gender Pay Gaps under Cultural Resistance pp. 299-321

Nan Xiong, Aino Tenhiälä, Bunyamin Onal, Seppo Ikäheimo and Gonul Colak

Search for Whom? Performance Feedback, Female Directors, and Search Prioritization pp. 323-346

Renfei Gao and Yajing Li

Advancing the Informal Networks Practice Lens: Tie Dynamics, Moral–Ethical Tensions, and Contextual Realities pp. 347-363

Kousay Abid, Fadi Alsarhan and Sa’ad Ali

Counterproductive Work Behaviours Help Regain a Sense of Power after a Broken Promise pp. 365-378

Yingjie Li, Sabine Geurts, Johan Karremans and Fred Hasselman

Seeing Opportunities From Conflicts: Exploring Third Parties’ Mixed Reactions to Ethical Conflict in the Workplace pp. 379-406

Yuming Wang, Jinlian Luo, Limin Guo and Hongdan Zhao

Examining the Effects of Interpersonal Competition on Employees’ Reporting of Unethical Behavior in Organizations pp. 407-427

Feng Qiu, Ke Michael Mai, Aleksander P. J. Ellis, Xueqi Wen and Cheng-Huan Liu

A Moral, Self-regulatory Perspective on the Consequences of Maximum Downward Envy pp. 429-442

Fufu Sun, Jinsong Li, Yahua Cai, Ho Kwong Kwan and Yuan Li

Frustration at Work: The Case for Subsidizing Career Switching pp. 443-456

Areti Theofilopoulou and Tom Parr

Volume 207, issue 1, 2026

Understanding Failed Ethical Consumption Through a Socio-Cultural Lens: An Examination of Online Fashion Shopping pp. 1-18

Fiona Spotswood, Caroline Moraes, Tim Kindberg and Chris Preist

Correction to: Understanding Failed Ethical Consumption Through a Socio-Cultural Lens: An Examination of Online Fashion Shopping pp. 19-19

Fiona Spotswood, Caroline Moraes, Tim Kindberg and Chris Preist

From Price to Quantity: Redefining How Consumers Pay the Ethical Premium pp. 21-34

Jing Wan and Mehak Bharti

“What I Customize Is Mine, So I Take Responsibility For It”: Customization Enhances Socially Responsible Consumer Behaviour Through Psychological Ownership in the Sharing Economy pp. 35-55

Lu Huang, Wanqing Feng, Zerui Zhao and Pan Zhang

Re-enchanting Consumer Ethics Through Embodied Relationality: An Ethnographic Approach to the Attitude-Behaviour Gap pp. 57-75

Roberta Discetti, Barbara Tocco and Matthew Gorton

Under Pressure to Comply: How Neoliberal Governance Affords Consumer Self-Responsibility pp. 77-97

Robin Bankel and Cecilia Solér

Don’t Humor Me! Customers’ Moral Perceptions Toward Companies’ Humorous Responses in Social Media Service Recovery pp. 99-117

Andreawan Honora, Arnold Japutra and Felix Septianto

Good Intentions Gone Awry: How and When Perceived Platform CSR Toward Customers Undermines Gig Workers’ Service Delivery Quality pp. 119-141

Beini Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Minya Xu and Xiaode Ji

Can Compassion Appeals Change the World? A Critical Review and Reconceptualization pp. 143-161

Carmen Valor, Paolo Antonetti and Benedetta Crisafulli

Shall Companies Take a Stance in Sociopolitical Activism? Navigating a Journey to Boost Employee Attributions and Ambassadorship Behaviors pp. 163-188

Xin-Jean Lim and Xiaoying Zheng

The Dark Side of Source Credibility: Differential Effectiveness of Credibility Cues in Fraudulent Versus Legitimate Crowdfunding Campaigns pp. 189-210

Pyayt P. Oo, Thomas H. Allison and Keith M. Hmieleski

Publisher Correction: The Dark Side of Source Credibility: Differential Effectiveness of Credibility Cues in Fraudulent Versus Legitimate Crowdfunding Campaigns pp. 211-211

Pyayt P. Oo, Thomas H. Allison and Keith M. Hmieleski

Managing Urban Nights: Night Mayors, Commons Creation, and Bodily Interconnectedness pp. 213-232

Monika Müller, Christian Huber and Dan Kärreman

Review of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin – Studying Virtual Worlds for Business Ethics Perspectives on Desirable Futures pp. 233-236

Bennet Schwoon and Hannah Schupfer