Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2026

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

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Volume 204, issue 1, 2026

Routine Exploitation or Dramatic Portrayals? How Violence Against Nonhuman Animals Gains Institutional Recognition pp. 1-15

Marjo Siltaoja

Putting Standing to Work: Does Hypocrisy Undermine a Supervisor’s Moral Standing to Blame Employees? pp. 17-29

Kyle G. Fritz and Daniel J. Miller

The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework pp. 31-49

Jop Versteegt, Marius van Dijke and Muel Kaptein

Tangata Whenua, People Born of the Land: From Corporate Dispossession and Repossession to Severance and Reconnection pp. 51-68

Matthew Scobie, Andre Poyser and Georgia Hampton

The Dual Faces of Leadership: CEOs’ Dark and Light Traits in Shaping Business Ethical Climate and Sustainability pp. 69-89

Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi and Ozan Kalaycioglu

Transparency in Place of Fair Insurance Pricing pp. 91-104

Nicos A. Scordis

The Influence of Managerial Involvement in Corporate Social Responsibility on Real Earnings Management Decisions pp. 105-125

Kevin Hale and Steven E. Kaszak

Pure Altruism or Warm-Glow Altruism? Altruistic Motivation and Gender Differences in Socially Responsible Investment pp. 127-144

Shu Chen, Jiaqi Wang and Xiaolan Yang

Cultivating Humility in Business Education: A Listening-Focused Pedagogy for Future Leaders pp. 145-162

Michal Lehmann, Avraham N. Kluger, Irina Cojuharenco and Guy Itzchakov

Cosmopolitanism as an Aspirational Identity: When Normative Ideals Give Rise to Identity Struggles pp. 163-181

Patrizia Hoyer and Sierk Ybema

Justice in Leadership pp. 183-197

Angus Robson

Volume 203, issue 4, 2026

Rethinking Crisis as Expected: Stakeholder Leadership in Navigating Ethical Dilemmas and Avoiding Polycrises pp. 687-704

Prem Sagar Menghwar, Fabian Homberg, Zafar Zaidi and Ashar Alam

Managing Corruption During Regime Change pp. 705-725

Christiaan Röell, Felix Arndt, Wilson Ng and Tazeeb Rajwani

Securities Fraud Among Family Firms—Evidence from the One-Child Policy Reform in China pp. 727-749

Danni Zhang and Yusen Dong

Motivating Business Students for Civic Education: Design Principles for Aligning Civic Engagement Programs with Student Motivation pp. 751-768

Joseph Charles Van Matre, Arjen de Wit and Frederique Demeijer

Emotional Intelligence and Business Ethics: Feeling Confident in Doing the Right Thing pp. 769-786

Sarah J. Carver and Hayden J. R. Woodley

Mitigating Moral Emotions After Crises: A Reconceptualization of Organizational Responses pp. 787-805

Paolo Antonetti, Carmen Valor and Branko Božič

Behind the Boss’s Back: Understanding the Negative and Positive Emotional and Relational Consequences of Negative Supervisor-Directed Gossip pp. 807-826

Julena M. Bonner, Rebecca L. Greenbaum, Marcus M. Butts and Gary R. Thurgood

Family Paths Towards Abusive or Benevolent Supervision: Parental Influence to Leader Behaviors via Goal Orientations pp. 827-844

Michelle Xue Zheng, Jiing-Lih Farh, Sebastian C. Schuh, Katherine R. Xin and Wen Wu

Amoral Management and Employee Cheating Behavior: A Social Information Processing Perspective pp. 845-862

Yun Dong, Jian Tian, Bao Cheng and Jiyu Li

Acting on Good Intentions? A Longitudinal Study of Prosocial Lending Intentions and Behaviours pp. 863-882

Rotem Shneor, Prince Baah-Peprah, Joe Cox and Thang Nguyen

Why are Men More Likely to Morally Disengage Under Job Stress than Women? Evidence from Resting-state fMRI pp. 883-900

Zhengqiang Zhong, Xiao-Ping Chen, Han Ren and Song Wang

Not Exactly “Perfect,” But Pretty Darn Good: A Review of Michael Schur’s Book—How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question pp. 901-904

Justin Pepe

Volume 203, issue 3, 2026

Is Competition Inherently Sleazy? Why the Market Failures Approach Says Yes and Kantian Ethics Says No pp. 475-487

Robert C. Hughes

Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Boundary Conditions of Subjectivity in Diversity and Inclusion Discourse on Investment Bank Websites pp. 489-505

Melissa Carr

From Stigma to Acceptance: Ethical Implications of Anthropomorphic Design in Healthcare Chatbots pp. 507-529

Fangyuan Chen, Yuting Pang and Lili Wang

The Ethical Costs of Artificial Intelligence: Investigating How and When Workplace Artificial Intelligence Usage Promotes Employee Unethical Outcomes pp. 531-547

Puchu Zhao, Guohua He and Jian Guan

Is Mediation a Shortcut to Deter Financial Fraud? Evidence from the Mediation Scheme in China pp. 549-573

Huixia Chen and Yurou Liu

Historical Slave Trade and Corporate Tax Evasion in Africa pp. 575-591

Geng Niu, Yi Wang, Bohui Zhang and Yang Zhou

Psychological Reactance Theory and Tax Evasion Intentions pp. 593-610

Diana Falsetta and Brian C. Spilker

Utility and Democracy in Political Campaign Advertising: Toward a Rule-Utilitarian Ethic for Political Marketing and the Ethics of Meddling in the Other Party’s Primary pp. 611-630

Joel Lansing Reed

Structuring Private Sustainability Governance: Combining Rule-Based and Goal-Based Mechanisms pp. 631-648

Daniel Wörner, Niklas Letmathe, Marin Jovanovic and Thomas Friedli

Five Senses Approach of Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy: Scale Development and Validation pp. 649-666

Muneer Mohammed Saeed Al Mubarak and Jalal Majeed Naser

Instrumental or Normative Motives: How Should Brands Implement Their Activism Campaigns? pp. 667-685

Charlotte Lécuyer, Marine Kergoat and Christine Lambey-Checchin

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