Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2026

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

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Volume 203, issue 2, 2026

Aesthetic Encounters, Canines, and Care: New Multispecies Methodological Avenues in Organizational and Business Ethics pp. 241-257

Astrid Huopalainen, Suvi Satama and Linda Tallberg

Ethics in Action: Nurturing Green Behaviors in the Workplace Through Corporate Environmental Ethics and Supervisor Ethical Leadership pp. 259-277

Shaham Saleem, Yixiang Zhang, Hafsa Bashir and Muhammad Umair Rafiq

Corporate Environmental Sustainability Via Stakeholder Collaboration: Insights from Classical Institutional Economics pp. 279-296

Vladislav Valentinov, Ronaldo de Oliveira Santos Jhunior and Helna Almeida de Araujo Góes

Moral Signaling in Startups: How ESG Claims Shape Stakeholder Judgments and Ethical Legitimacy pp. 297-311

Eugene Y. Chan

Stop Where it Should Stop: Board Faultlines, Stakeholder Supervision and Greenwashing Behaviors of Firms pp. 313-340

Xuejiao Ma, Xiaojun Ma, Wei Fei, Qichuan Jiang and Yiwei Zhang

Religiosity and Gender Dynamics in Executive Leadership: Impact on CEO Appointments and Pay Disparities pp. 341-355

Dave Bouckenooghe, Kareen Brown, Samir Trabelsi and Maryam Vashahi

Fear of Failure in the Fast Lane: How Stretch Goals Fuel Unethical Leadership and Employee Misconduct pp. 357-376

Yanghao Zhu, Lirong Long and Yannan Zhang

The Dark Side of Variability: Developing a Measure of Perceived Leader Inconsistency pp. 377-404

E. J. G. Van Gerven, A. H. B. De Hoogh, D. N. Den Hartog and F. D. Belschak

It’s Not My Responsibility: Working with Autonomy-Restricting Algorithms Facilitates Unethical Behavior and Displacement of Responsibility pp. 405-424

Anupama A. Jolly, Patrick D. Dunlop, Sharon K. Parker and Lisette Kanse

The Countervailing Effects of Job Crafting on Salesperson Ethical Behaviors: The Role of Meaningful Work and Organizational Interventions pp. 425-451

Aditya Gupta, Vishag Badrinarayanan, Linda Alkire and Indu Ramachandran

You Win Some, You Lose Some: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of the Trade-Off Impacts of Leader High Performance Expectations pp. 453-474

Zhen Wang, Huan Chen, Xia Liu and Hao Zhong

Volume 203, issue 1, 2026

Business Ethics in a Time of Acceleration pp. 1-5

Gazi Islam and Michelle Greenwood

Navigating Contestation at the Corporate–Community Boundary: The Agonistic Work of Corporate Community Engagement Practitioners in Extractivist Projects pp. 7-26

Eduardo Hernández-Melgar and Lucia Cervi

Human Rights Violations in Global Value Chains: A Locally Grounded Governance Framework pp. 27-54

Myriam C. Rapior and Marc Oberhauser

Navigating the Invisible: Ironic Compliance, Forced Labor, and the Commodification of Offline Rights in Digitalized Workplaces pp. 55-72

Yujie Zhang and Qian Zhang

Generalized Reciprocity and Interfirm Cooperation: A Study of Entrepreneurial Development in Argentina pp. 73-89

Sandrine Frémeaux, Roberta Sferrazzo and Anouk Grevin

Bias in Mission-Driven Finance: Discrimination or Mission Drift?* pp. 91-106

Anastasia Cozarenco and Ariane Szafarz

Conceptualising the Socio-material Context: An Ethical Enquiry into the Contextual Materialisation of Paradoxes in Transport Logistics pp. 107-139

Annika Mies, Tim Gruchmann and Stefan Gold

Investee Peers and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from U.S. Listed Firms pp. 141-163

Xinhao Qiao, Jinyu He, Xueying Bian and Yan Ling

Navigating the Ambiguity of Impact Investing: How Impact Venture Capitalists Access New Markets, Founders, and Capital pp. 165-179

Christian Garmann Johnsen and Johannes Lenhard

The Folk Ethics of Commodification: An Empirical Investigation into Moral Attitudes Against Market Transactions pp. 181-203

Sebastian Krügel, Matthias Uhl and Ingo Pies

Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024) pp. 205-216

Matthew P. Crayne

Consumption Populism: How Business Leaders Use Populist Logic to Shape Consumption pp. 217-240

Shafiullah Anis and Juliana Angeline French

Volume 202, issue 4, 2025

Whistleblowing as a Recursive Sequence of Épreuves: A Boltanskian Theorization of Speaking Up pp. 647-659

Mahaut Fanchini and Meghan Van Portfliet

Escape the Kingdom! Family Business Metaphors in the French Business Press and their Implications for Gendered Representations pp. 661-676

Audrey Missonier, Christina Constantinidis and Franck Celhay

Staging Debates in Whistleblowing Research: A Problematizing Literature Review pp. 677-689

Paul Zimmermann

“In the Grip of King Kong”: Making Sense of Whistleblower Retaliation Experiences Through Metaphor pp. 691-705

Joseph McGlynn, Brian K. Richardson and Jacinta T. Tran

When Vulnerable Narcissists Take the Lead: The Role of Internal Attribution of Failure and Shame for Abusive Supervision pp. 707-725

Susanne Braun, Birgit Schyns, Yuyan Zheng and Robert G. Lord

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Tolerance Spillover Effect in Ethical Decision-Making pp. 727-747

Jeffrey S. Bednar, Ryan D. Sommerfeldt, Aaron F. Zimbelman and Mark F. Zimbelman

Why and When Leaders Are Exploitative? The Interactive Roles of Machiavellianism and Accountability pp. 749-763

Xue Peng and Jian Peng

When Play at Work Can Foster Harassment-Based Norms: Exploring Moral Disengagement During Social Play pp. 765-780

Al-Karim Samnani

Female Management Representation and Corporate Financial Fraud: Do Local Gender Norms Play a Role? pp. 781-802

Yuehua Xu, Vishal K. Gupta, Shan Xue, Sandra Mortal and Honghui Chen

Correction to: Female Management Representation and Corporate Financial Fraud: Do Local Gender Norms Play a Role? pp. 803-803

Yuehua Xu, Vishal K. Gupta, Shan Xue, Sandra Mortal and Honghui Chen

The Ethical Commitment of Business Strategy: ESG-Related Factors as Drivers of the SDGs pp. 805-821

M. Ángeles López-Cabarcos, Ydriss Ziane, M. Luisa López-Pérez and Juan Piñeiro-Chousa

Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment pp. 823-842

Jingnan Cecilia Chen, John D’Attoma, Miguel A. Fonseca and Antoine Malézieux

Volume 202, issue 3, 2025

Does Corporate Political Advocacy Wrong Shareholders? pp. 459-471

Aaron Ancell

On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation pp. 473-486

John Healy, Jeffrey Hughes and Gemma Donnelly-Cox

Corporate Moral Responsibility vs. Corporate Social Responsibility: Friedman was Right pp. 487-502

Kendy M. Hess

Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit pp. 503-517

Grant J. Rozeboom

Determinants, Interests and Potential Risks: A Systematic Review of Corporate Water Responsibility Management pp. 519-542

Xuhui Peng, Aila Khan, Yunqing Su, Yunqian Bai, Qingliang Tang and Jingduan Li

Cost of Vagueness: Stakeholders’ Responses to Firms’ ESG Information pp. 543-566

Hongbo He, Yiqing Chen, Ruiqi Guo, Lerong He and Hong Wan

The Impact of Antagonistic Narcissism on Auditor Skepticism with Moderation by Client Financial and ESG Performance pp. 567-586

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

The Hidden Cost of Unrest: The Impacts of Turnover Intentions on Employee Time Theft pp. 587-602

Quan Li, Zhuolin She and Mengzhen Guo

Front Running 2.0: An Ethical Evaluation of Selected Strategies of High-frequency Traders from a Non-utilitarian Perspective pp. 603-613

Anna Blachnio-Parzych

Standard-Based Entitlement: How Relative Performance Disclosure Affects Pay Requests pp. 615-630

Boris Maciejovsky, Gunyawee Teekathananont, Patricia Chen and Stephen M. Garcia

Salespeople Moral Disengagement and Duty Orientation: Examining the Influence of Peers’ Unethical Behavior and Customer Incivility pp. 631-646

Bindu Gupta, Aastha Dhoopar, Rakesh Singh and Sandeep Puri

Volume 202, issue 2, 2025

Transnational Capitalism After Postcolonialism: Researching the Interfaces in Global Supply Chains pp. 243-261

Bridget Kustin, Juliane Reinecke and Jimmy Donaghey

Bridging Hegemony and Decolonial Epistemology: The Consolidation of GMO in Brazil pp. 263-281

Yuna Fontoura, Morgana G. Martins Krieger, Flávia Naves and Alketa Peci

Reconciling with the Earth and Peoples: The Role of the Peoplehood Model in Developing an Ethical Form of Indigenous Resurgence pp. 283-303

Grace H. Fan, Eli Enns, Saya Masso and Zoe A. Cunliffe

Correction to: Reconciling with the Earth and Peoples: The Role of the Peoplehood Model in Developing an Ethical Form of Indigenous Resurgence pp. 305-305

Grace H. Fan, Eli Enns, Saya Masso and Zoe A. Cunliffe

Shareholder Satisfaction or Societal Benefit? Coalition Support and Goal Prioritization pp. 307-334

Cyndi Man Zhang, Helen Wei Hu and Toru Yoshikawa

Navigating Cultural Crossroads with Intersectional Narratives in Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca’s Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings pp. 335-339

Kevin T. Jackson

A Feminist Ethics of Care for the Embodied Organizing of Solidarity: Lessons from the Refugee Crisis in Greece pp. 341-355

Emmanouela Mandalaki

Can Women Save a Man’s World? The Influence of Gender-Discriminating Institutions on Female Family CEOs’ CSR Performance pp. 357-376

Felix Hoch, Lilo Seyberth, Catherine M. Faherty, Eric Clinton and Pramodita Sharma

EDI Failure: Experiences of Racialized Interpersonal Misconduct and the Delegation of Moral Responsibility pp. 377-399

Olivia Tomlinson, Adam Nix and Jennifer TyreeHageman

To Stay or Leave? Consequences of Ethical Dilemma Experienced by Nurses in the Intensive Care Units pp. 401-416

Ozan Kalaycioglu, Arzu Sert-Ozen and Ahmet Yeşildağ

Every Rose Has Its Thorns - How Exemplars Manage the Tensions in Inclusive Leadership pp. 417-437

Wei Zheng, Jennifer Y. Kim and Ronit Kark

Can Business Ethics Courses Be Effective? A Quasi-Experimental Mixed-Methods Study of a Cooperative-Learning Approach in Higher Education pp. 439-458

Mattia Martini, Dario Cavenago and Monica Carminati

Volume 202, issue 1, 2025

The Re-enchantment of a Technologically Disenchanted World: An Affirmative Critique of Anti-surveillance Art pp. 1-19

Ana Alacovska

Self-Esteem and Technological Unemployment: Should We Halt AI to Protect Meaningful Work? pp. 21-33

Carlo Ludovico Cordasco and Carissa Véliz

The Preference for Unsolicited Advice: When We Have to Make a Trade-Off Between Self-interest and Morality pp. 35-53

Huanmeng Tian, Xinni Wei, Feng Yu and Liying Xu

Sour Grapes: Exploring Unfavorable Reactions of Employees Who Observe Leader Leniency pp. 55-72

Wenjuan Mei, Pablo Zoghbi-Manrique- de-Lara and Jinnan Wu

Make it Right: Regulatory Intervention in Managers’ Misconduct and Corporate Risk pp. 73-95

Feng He, Hanyu Du, Youwei Li and Jing Hao

Gambling Preference and Audit Decision-Making—From the Perspective of Key Audit Matters Disclosure pp. 97-115

Hangeng Qiu, Pu-yan Nie, Wei Jiang, Hongxing Wen and Baoyin Qiu

One Move, Two Gains: Commercial Kickbacks Suppression and Corporate Tax Avoidance pp. 117-140

Shiyang Hu, Yulei Li, Wenhao Tan and Cheng Xiang

Family Business Ethics: A Literature Review and Research Agenda pp. 141-159

Marcos Ferasso, Tatiana Beliaeva, Sascha Kraus, Paul Jones and Tobias Gössling

Value Creating Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies of Family and Non-Family Firms: An Interventionist Perspective pp. 161-201

Isabel-María García-Sánchez, Lázaro Rodríguez-Ariza, Cristina Aibar-Guzmán, Huda Khan, Nadia Zahoor and Shlomo Y. Tarba

“If you like it Green, put a ring on it”: Married women directors and environmental performance in family and non-family businesses pp. 203-219

Vincenzo Vastola, Giovanna Campopiano, Francesco Debellis and Domenico Rocco Cambrea

Family Firms and Bribe Payments in Developing Countries: The Moderating Role of Social Capital pp. 221-242

Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Fotios Pasiouras, David Roubaud and Linda D. Hollebeek