Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2026

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

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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

Volume 206, issue 3, 2026

Follow the Leader: The Double-Edged Cascading Effect of Board Gender Diversity Practices in Hierarchical Business Groups pp. 437-459

Paula M. Infantes, Ryan Federo and Bartolomé Pascual-Fuster

There Is No Quick Fix: Compliance Officers’ Views on Organizational Behavioral Change pp. 461-486

Malouke Esra Kuiper

Does Stakeholder Orientation Improve Firms’ Operations? Evidence from Inventory Management pp. 487-514

Yunxiao Liu, Woochan Kim and Ning Zhang

Leading Responsibly to Safeguard Employee Rights in MNCs: Unpacking the Justice and CSR-Driven Pathways pp. 515-532

Muhammad Usman, Yasin Rofcanin, Adeel Khalid, Shaker Bani-Melhem and Muhammad Waheed Akhtar

From Critique to Action: A Capability Approach to Reimagining Human Rights Due Diligence pp. 533-548

Rim Bitar and Judith Schrempf-Stirling

A Review of Individual and Team Accountability Through Multilevel and Ethical Lenses pp. 549-570

Linh Bui and Thao P. H. Nguyen

Police Violence as Organizational Enactment of the State of Exception pp. 571-598

Rajnish Rai, Srinath Jagannathan and Raza Mir

Red Pill Leadership Behaviours and Discourse Ethics pp. 599-619

Cihat Erbil, Mustafa F. Özbilgin and Aybike Mergen

Fourth Sector: Catholic Social Teaching’s Business Principles Made Real? A Comparative Analysis pp. 621-633

Aiza Asi

Climate Action Through a Feminist Lens: The Role of Gender Inequality Awareness, Nature Empathy, and Climate Change Concern pp. 635-650

Vanessa Apaolaza, Patrick Hartmann, Virginia Rincón and Mario R. Paredes

Moving from Unethical Competition to Sustainability: Understanding the Impact of Competitive Ethics Review on Carbon Reduction of Digital Enterprise pp. 651-685

Desheng Wu, Yu Xie and Yuan Pei

The Empire’s New Clothes: A Review of “Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals” by Oliver Bullough pp. 687-690

Sorin M. S. Krammer

Volume 206, issue 2, 2026

Reshaping the Space of Ethics for Expert Work: Deliberative Approaches for Deploying Artificial Intelligence in Auditing pp. 213-236

Vikash Kumar Sinha and David Derichs

When Consumer Autonomy is Compromised: Adopting a Dual-Type View to Understand AI-Driven Marketing and Its Impact on Young Consumers’ Ethical Behavior pp. 237-255

Muhammad Waqas and Usman Ahmad Qadri

Blinded by the Bot: Why AI Chatbots Cue Human Unethical Behavior in Negotiations pp. 257-273

Amanda Weirup, McKenzie Rees, Mingang K. Geiger and Lily Morse

Determinants of Unethical Information Use by Insiders: Towards a Theory of Malicious Information Behavior pp. 275-296

Kashif Saeed, Vikas Sinha and Victor Prybutok

Attitude Without Action-What Really Hinders Ethical Consumption pp. 297-315

Zara Berberyan, Sarah Margaretha Jastram, Mark Heuer, Oliver Schnittka and Joachim Rosenkranz

Navigating Ethical Paths with “Less”: Unveiling the Simplicity-Naturalness Association and its Impact on Green Consumption pp. 317-336

Siyun Chen, Zhihao Yu, Jiwei Xiong and Veronika Ponomarenko

Climate Risk and Donations to Nonprofit Organizations pp. 337-358

Tahmina Ahmed, Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Xing Huan and Gregory D. Saxton

Navigating Moral Harm Brand Crises: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Consumer Response pp. 359-381

Justin Cohen, Sean Sands, Jonathan Raw, Eugene Chan, Carla Ferraro, Vlad Demsar and Liangyan Wang

Reactions of Consumers to Government Wrongdoing: The Case of the Food and Drug Administration pp. 383-398

Richard P. Bagozzi and Frank J. Ascione

Reciprocity, Burden-Sharing, and the Individual Duty of Productive Justice pp. 399-412

Markus Furendal

Does Political Connection Stifle Corporate Hypocrisy? Evidence from Greenwashing pp. 413-435

Chong Chen, Weiping Li, Ruishi Liu and Chang Shi

Volume 206, issue 1, 2026

The Moral Implications of Human Resource Management (HRM): A Review of the Relationship Between HRM Practices and Unethical Behavior at Work pp. 1-30

Wenqing Yu, Kaifeng Jiang, Shenjiang Mo and Yi Su

The Role of Mindfulness in Entrepreneurship: An Ethical Perspective Through the Phronesis Framework pp. 31-53

Amitabh Anand, Kanika Kohli, Oana Branzei, April J. Spivack and Daniel Rottig

What Does the Trust Game Measure? pp. 55-64

Jason R. D’Cruz

Toward Social Justification for Pecuniary and Other Externalities: Building on Kogelmann and Carroll’s Intervention pp. 65-74

Nicholas Meetze and Matthew Caulfield

Do Venture Capitalists Replace Women with Men to Lead Portfolio Companies? pp. 75-91

Jianwei Dong, Haixia Hao, Yuan-Teng Hsu, Guoping Shi and Han Wang

The Role of Corporate Sustainability Managers in Implementing Proactive Environmental Strategies pp. 93-115

Maja Charlotte Fleck-Baustian, Berina Jaganjac and John A. Hunnes

To Punish or to Forgive: Managerial Responses to Unethical Employee Behavior from an Organizational Ethical Culture Perspective pp. 117-132

Muel Kaptein

Understanding the Effectiveness of Ethics Programs in Preventing Unethical Behavior by Unravelling the Dimensions of Team Ethical Culture pp. 133-156

Guillem C. Cabana and Muel Kaptein

The Ethical Dilemma of Organization Norm and Ideology: Investigating Why and When Guanxi HRM Practice Predicts Unethical Pro-Leader Behavior pp. 157-179

Qi Zhang, Lu Chen, Yuanmei Elly Qu, Michael K. Muchiri and Song Zhang

The Unethical Consequences of Daily Presenteeism: Schadenfreude and Negative Gossip Toward Peers pp. 181-199

Neha Tripathi and Mariella Miraglia

Review of Work-Life Research in the Asia–Pacific: Implications for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion pp. 201-206

David Cheng

Can Purpose and Professional Advancement Coexist? Review of Make It Meaningful: How to Find Purpose in Life and Work by Debbie Haski-Leventhal pp. 207-212

Meena Chavan