Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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

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Volume 198, issue 1, 2025

Deception, Discrimination, and Objectification: Ethical Issues of Female AI Agents pp. 1-19

Sylvie Borau

Scoring the Ethics of AI Robo-Advice: Why We Need Gateways and Ratings pp. 21-33

Paul Kofman

‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes pp. 35-68

Blair Wang, Daniel Schlagwein, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic and Michael C. Cahalane

Teaching Business Students to Care: Perspective-Taking and the Narrative Enabling of Moral Imagination pp. 69-83

Kalyani Menon

Growth Through Ethical Role Identity Work: The Case of Ethics and Compliance Officers pp. 85-106

Niki A. Nieuwenboer, Linda K. Treviño, Derron Bishop, Glen E. Kreiner and Chad Murphy

Silenced by Incivility pp. 107-125

Kristin Bain, Kathryn Coll, Tamar A. Kreps and Elizabeth R. Tenney

Ethics, Faith, and Engagement: Unpacking the Effect of Voice Climate on Work Engagement pp. 127-141

Yasir Mansoor Kundi, Fawad Ahmad and Usman Nazir

Against the Sale of Homeopathy (and Other Ineffective Medicines) pp. 143-153

Jeffrey Moriarty

The Space for Religion and Spirituality in Business, Management, and Entrepreneurship Education: Reflections on the Main Contributions and Tentative Directions pp. 155-175

Soledad Moya and Nuria Toledano

Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience pp. 177-197

Zhe Zhang, Yating Hu and Juan Wang

Are Fairness Perceptions Related to Moral Licensing Behavior? Evidence From Tax Compliance pp. 199-221

Donna Bobek, Amy Hageman and Cass Hausserman

Volume 197, issue 4, 2025

Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life pp. 659-671

Brian Kogelmann

Organizing the Good Death: Ethics and Values-Work in the Sower Hospice pp. 673-687

M. Dolores Rio and Roy Suddaby

Receiving Social Support Motivates Long-Term Prosocial Behavior pp. 689-711

Chiara Trombini, Winnie Jiang and Zoe Kinias

Injustice Provokes Psychological Resources Loss: A Dual-Pathway Model of App-worker Reactions to Customers’ Injustice pp. 713-738

Zhipeng Zhang, Runna Wang, Lu Shang, Kui Yin, Guangjian Liu and Xianxian Gui

Does Accelerated Patenting Information Dissemination Affect Managers’ (Un)Ethical Behavior? Evidence from the American Inventor’s Protection Act and Crash Risk pp. 739-759

Kose John, Xiaoran Ni and Chi Zhang

Being a Parent Helps Being a Benevolent Leader: A Mixed-Method Approach pp. 761-784

Zhengguang Liu, Zhenkun Liang, Cheng Wang and Wenjun Bian

First Things First: Using Anchoring Bias to Examine the Effect of Penalty Severity and Social Norms on Tax Compliance pp. 785-809

Tisha King

Spotting Portfolio Greenwashing in Environmental Funds pp. 811-839

Rabab Abouarab, Tapas Mishra and Simon Wolfe

After the Accident: Is There a Blame Bias Against the Airline? pp. 841-853

Dwane H. Dean

Are Donors Watching? Nonprofit Rating Availability and Pay-to-Performance Sensitivity pp. 855-872

Chen Zhao and Richard Dull

Exploring a paradox: Psychopathy, Morality and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour pp. 873-892

Melrona Kirrane, Adeela Farqan and Emer Cloak

A Mixed Blessing? Explaining the Double-Edged Effects of Leader Leniency on Employee Task Performance pp. 893-915

Xin Liu, Bo Lv, Liyuan Li, Peter Harms, Jiawei Zheng and Xiaoming Zheng

Volume 197, issue 3, 2025

Global South States’ Views on Building Partnerships with Corporations: An Agonistic Struggle in the UN and Beyond pp. 445-463

Eva Nilsson and Martin Fougère

When Social Innovations Foster Integral Human Development: Evidence from the Impact of Theatrical Activities on Prison Inmates’ Social Skills pp. 465-487

Tommaso Ramus, Francesco Castellaneta, Filippo Giordano and Francesco Perrini

Can Good Information Prevent Misconduct? The Role of Organizational Epistemic Virtues for Ethical Behavior pp. 489-504

Marco Meyer and Tong Li

Unethical Behavior in the Name of the Family: Exploring the Consequences of Unethical Pro-Family Behavior on Employees’ Work and Life pp. 505-522

Meilan Nong and Wenjuan Mei

The Effect of Customers’ Unethical Practices on Suppliers’ Intention to Continue Their Relationships pp. 523-540

Daniel Prajogo, Brian Cooper, Ross Donohue and Anand Nair

HRM’s Response to Workplace Bullying: Complacent, Complicit and Compounding pp. 541-555

Clive R. Boddy and Louise Boulter

Greatest Good for the Greatest Number – the Role of Managers’ Ethical Meaning-Making and Subjective Wellbeing Complexity pp. 557-579

Archana Mishra, Lance Newey and Paul Spee

Socially Irresponsible HRM: Findings from the UK Hotel Sector pp. 581-595

Victoria Walker and Dennis Nickson

Unlocking the Connection between Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy and Firm Performance: Unveiling Mediating and Moderating Effects pp. 597-611

Jonah Tyan, Shih-Ching Liu, Carol Yeh-Yun Lin and Tien-Yu Chang

Social Impact Assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives: Evaluating the Social Return on Investment of an Inclusion Offer pp. 613-629

Nicolas Scelles, Yuhei Inoue, Seth Joseph Perkin and Maurizio Valenti

Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors pp. 631-658

Daniel Kim, Klodiana Lanaj and Joel Koopman

Volume 197, issue 2, 2025

Toward an Ethics of Ambiguity in Critical Work and Organizational Psychology: From ‘Blank’ to ‘Troubled’ Subjectivity pp. 219-230

Parisa Dashtipour, Nathan Gerard and Duarte Rolo

Experience of Marginalization in Noncooperative Spaces: The Case of Undocumented Migrant Workers in Italy pp. 231-252

Roya Derakhshan and Rashedur Chowdhury

Iron Cage for Indigenous Entrepreneurs? Understanding the Movement and Impact of External Ideas on Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Ecuador pp. 253-270

Bryan Solorzano Bajaña

Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States pp. 271-288

Rolf Brühl

Is the State a Socially Responsible Shareholder? State-Owned Enterprises, Political Ideology, and Corporate Social Performance pp. 289-309

Leonardo Henrique Lima Pilla, Alketa Peci and Rodrigo Leite

Does Social Media Pressure Induce Corporate Hypocrisy? Evidence of ESG Greenwashing from China pp. 311-338

Li Long, Chunze Wang and Min Zhang

Publisher Correction to: Does Social Media Pressure Induce Corporate Hypocrisy? Evidence of ESG Greenwashing from China pp. 339-339

Li Long, Chunze Wang and Min Zhang

How to Design Green Compensation to Promote Managers’ Pro-Environmental Behavior? A Goal-Framing Perspective pp. 341-353

Yishuai Yin, Yue Wang and Ying Lu

Greenwashing or Striving to Persist: An Alternative Explanation of a Loose Coupling Between Corporate Environmental Commitments and Outcomes pp. 355-370

Robert Kudłak

Sustainable Governance: Board Sustainability Experience and the Interplay with Board Age for Firm Sustainability pp. 371-389

Francesca Collevecchio, Valerio Temperini, Virginia Barba-Sanchez and Angel Meseguer-Martinez

Consumer Disposition Toward Fairness in Agri-Food Chains (FAIRFOOD): Scale Development and Validation pp. 391-421

Margherita Prete, Artyom Golossenko, Matthew Gorton, Barbara Tocco and Antonella Samoggia

Hunting and Fishing CEOs: Environmental Plunderers or Saviors? pp. 423-444

Thomas Covington, Steve Swidler and Keven Yost

Volume 197, issue 1, 2025

Inquiring Value: The Pragmatist Turn in Business Ethics pp. 1-11

Henrik Rydenfelt

Joseph Heath’s Ethics for Capitalists: The Market Failures Approach 2.0 pp. 13-17

Santiago Mejia and Robert Mass

Legitimating Organizational Secrecy pp. 19-38

Nicholas Clarke, Malcolm Higgs and Thomas Garavan

CEO Narcissism and Credit Ratings pp. 39-72

Zehan Hou, Richard Fairchild and Pietro Perotti

Is There a Foreign Language Effect on Workplace Bribery Susceptibility? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Vignette Experiment pp. 73-97

Jack Fitzgerald, Paul Stroet, Kristina S. Weißmüller and Arjen Witteloostuijn

Narcissism Dynamics and Auditor Skepticism pp. 99-116

Steven E. Kaszak, Eric N. Johnson, Philip M. J. Reckers and Alan Reinstein

Mission Statements of Public Accounting Firms: Antecedents and Consequences of Professional Vs. Commercial Orientations pp. 117-142

Jared Eutsler and Steven Kaszak

Generalist Versus Specialist CEOs and the Scope of Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 143-158

Qian Lu, Guoguang Wan and Liang Xu

Challenging or Threatening? The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Intelligent Technology Awareness on Accountants’ Unethical Decision-Making pp. 159-175

Meng Bai, He Zhang, Junrui Zhang, Yuhui Jiang and Junmin Xu

Greenhouse Gas Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms pp. 177-194

Aline Grahn

Natural Disaster, Tax Avoidance, and Corporate Pollution Emissions: Evidence from China pp. 195-217

Rui Xu and Liuyang Ren