Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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

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Volume 199, issue 2, 2025

Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders pp. 231-253

Nil Gulari, Anna Dziuba, Anna Hannula and Johanna Kujala

Executive Presentations and Environmental Action in Polluting Industries: Moderating Effects of Narrative and Numeric Concreteness on Aspirational Talk pp. 255-283

Jaemin Kim, Joy Jiang and Michael Greiner

Media Reporting of Environmental Supply Chain Sustainability Risks: Contextual and Moderating Factors pp. 285-308

Ivana Mateska, Stephan M. Wagner and Laura Stienen

H-1B Visas and Wages in Accounting: Evidence from Big 4 Payroll and the Ethics of H-1B Visas pp. 309-330

Thomas Bourveau, Derrald Stice, Han Stice and Roger White

How and When Does Employee Creativity Relate to Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior? Unmasking the Negative Side of Organizational Creativity pp. 331-349

Imran Hameed, Ghulam Ali Arain, Irfan Hameed, Ancy Gamage and Michael K. Muchiri

A Profit Cap is not yet a General Moral Duty for Companies: A Corporate Social Contract Perspective pp. 351-364

Muel Kaptein

Self-Interest over Ethics: Firm Withdrawal from Russia After the Ukraine Invasion pp. 365-391

Pankaj C. Patel and Jack I. Richter

What Happens When Your Hand is in My Pocket: The Foreign Policy Effects of China’s Foreign Direct Investment in Africa pp. 393-412

Hermann Achidi Ndofor, Carla D. Jones and Mengge Li

Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions pp. 413-436

Jingbin He, Bo Liu and Hong Zou

The Impact of Visual Perspectives in Advertisements on Consumers’ Reactions to Close-to-Expiry Food pp. 437-451

Lu Monroe Meng, Eileen Yiran Zhang, Shen Duan and Ce Liang

Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t pp. 453-479

Stephanie Nguyen, Daisy Bertrand, Sylvie Llosa and Mathieu Alemany Oliver

Volume 199, issue 1, 2025

Can Ethical Texts Achieve Clarity? Whistleblowing Texts in the UK Banking Sector and the Ethical Clarity Framework pp. 1-17

Elizabeth Hornby

Navigating Between Control and Trust: The Whistleblowing Mindset pp. 19-35

Paulina Arroyo, Leslie Berger and Nadia Smaili

The Duty Speech Loophole in Whistleblower Protection: Why We Need Retroactive Causality to Avoid Moral Luck pp. 37-53

Wim Vandekerckhove and Geert Demuijnck

‘Should I Tell?’ Moral Reflexivity in 14 Whistleblower Autobiographies pp. 55-70

Thomas Olesen

Warding Off Cognitive Dissonance: How Supervisor Perspective Taking Shapes the Responses of Employees Who Engage in Unethical Behavior pp. 71-84

Bulin Zhang, Xiangmin Liu and Zhengtang Zhang

Sameness and/or Otherness: What Matters More for Narcissist CEOs in the Context of Non-market Strategy? pp. 85-112

Marwan Al-Shammari, Soumendra Nath Banerjee, Abdul Rasheed, Hussam Al-Shammari and Krist Swimberghe

Financial Shared Service Centers and Corporate Misconduct: Evidence from China pp. 113-139

Wang Dong, Yuan Meng, Jun Chen and Yun Ke

The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance pp. 141-162

Eun-Ji Oh, Youngsang Kim and Yangxin Wang

Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors pp. 163-182

Lixin Chen, Qingxiong Weng, Anastasiia Popelnukha and Hui Jiang

Board Gender Diversity and Within-Firm Wage Inequity: Evidence from the Relaxation of China’s One-Child Policy pp. 183-205

Ni Qin, Dongmin Kong, Ling Zhu and Mengxu Xiong

Does Price Personalization Ethically Outperform Unitary Pricing? A Thought Experiment and a Simulation Study pp. 207-227

Deni Mazrekaj, Mark D. Verhagen, Ajay Kumar and Daniel Muzio

Correction to: Value, Values, and Valuation: The Marketization of Charitable Foundation Impact Investing pp. 229-229

Kirsten Andersen and Rebecca Tekula

Volume 198, issue 4, 2025

Ethical Issues in Family Business: Toward a Deeper Understanding and a New Research Agenda pp. 715-731

Elias Hadjielias, Alfredo Massis, Michael Christofi, Danae Manika and Stephen Brammer

The Best of Firms, the Worst of Firms: Ethical Bifurcation in Family Businesses During Crises pp. 733-748

Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

A ‘Grey’ Side of Family Business Ethics? Looking into the Interplay of Internal and External Ethical Orientations: Empirical Insights from the Wine Industry pp. 749-770

Elena Casprini, Rocco Palumbo, Jacopo Cammeo and Lorenzo Zanni

Whistleblowing in family firms: power and justice dynamics pp. 771-786

Clarisse Lafleur, Tim Hasso and Francesco Barbera

Linking CEO Celebrity to the Ethical Behavior of Family Firms in a Digital Age: Evidence from China pp. 787-811

Tachia Chin, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Liang Wu and Grigorios Lamprinakos

In the Aftermath of an Ethical Violation: Do Family Firms Suffer More Than Non-family Firms and Why? pp. 813-840

Bettina Nyffenegger, Kristen Madison, Maximilian Lude, Reinhard Prügl and Andreas Hack

Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility pp. 841-864

Alessandro Cirillo, Maria Angela Manzi, Jonathan Bauweraerts and Salvatore Sciascia

Exploring Family Values, Religion, and Ethical Behavior in Family Businesses: A Multi-Stage Qualitative Investigation pp. 865-891

Sanjay Chaudhary, Amandeep Dhir, Duc Khuong Nguyen, Enrico Battisti and Puneet Kaur

Ethical Correlates of Family Control: Socioemotional Wealth, Environmental Performance, and Financial Returns pp. 893-917

Luis R. Gómez-Mejía, Fernando Muñoz-Bullón, Ignacio Requejo and Maria J. Sanchez-Bueno

Family Firms and Ethics: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Determinants of Ethical Decision-Making and Emerging Future Research Pathways pp. 919-946

Minas N. Kastanakis, Solon Magrizos, Katerina Kampouri and Andrea Calabrò

Does it Pay to Patent Green Innovations? Stock Market Reactions to Family and Nonfamily Firms’ Green Patents pp. 947-970

Francesco Chirico, Kimberly A. Eddleston and Pankaj C. Patel

The Ties that Bind or Those That Tear Us Apart? Co-CEO Constellations and ESG Performance in Family Firms pp. 971-990

Yuliya Ponomareva, Francesco Paolone, Domenico Rocco Cambrea and Marc Goergen

Volume 198, issue 3, 2025

Framing Collective Moral Responsibility for Climate Change: A Longitudinal Frame Analysis of Energy Company Climate Reporting pp. 485-508

Melanie Feeney, Jarrod Ormiston, Wim Gijselaers, Pim Martens and Therese Grohnert

Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals pp. 509-536

Greg Tindall, Rebel A. Cole and David Javakhadze

Judicial Waves, Ethical Shifts: Bankruptcy Courts and Corporate ESG Performance pp. 537-557

Zixun Zhou, Xinyu Zhou, Xuezhi Zhang and Wei Chen

Mitigating Investor Reactions to Financial Misconduct: The Moderating Roles of Firm Commitment Cues pp. 559-578

Lu Ye and Helen Wei Hu

Do Criminal Politicians Affect Firm Investment and Value? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach pp. 579-614

Vikram Nanda and Ankur Pareek

Organizational Wrongdoing within the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Integrative Review pp. 615-635

Irina Heim and Lilya Mergaliyeva

Social Trust, Environmental Violations, and Remedial Actions in China pp. 637-654

Yasir Shahab, Zhiwei Ye, Jia Liu and Muhammad Nadeem

Are Employees Safer When the CEO Looks Greedy? pp. 655-673

Don O’Sullivan, Leon Zolotoy, Madhu Veeraraghavan and Jennifer R. Overbeck

Considering the Dark Side of Work: Bullshit Job Perceptions, Deviant Work Behavior, and the Moderating Role of Work Ethic pp. 675-693

Johanna Riester and Johannes Keller

Ethicality in B2B Service Delivery: Examining the Impact of Individual and Organisational Ethics on Firm Performance Through Ethical Leadership and Climate pp. 695-714

S. Sreejesh and Subhadip Roy

Volume 198, issue 2, 2025

Theorizing Effective (Preventative) Remedy: Exploring the Root Cause Dimensions of Human Rights Abuse & Remedy pp. 223-241

Alysha Kate Shivji

The Effects of Moral Intensity and Moral Disengagement on Rule Violations: Occupational Safety in UK-based Construction Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 243-262

Claire Mann, Sharon Clarke and Sheena Johnson

The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia–Ukraine War pp. 263-291

Vassiliki Bamiatzi, Steven A. Brieger, Özgü Karakulak, Daniel Kinderman and Stephan Manning

Historical Ownership of Family Firms and Corporate Fraud pp. 293-319

Xin Huang, Wanrong Li, Chen Cheng, Hao Huang and Guanchun Liu

Evolution of Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Hybrid Literature Review and Theoretical Propositions pp. 321-343

Sebastián Uriarte, Cristian Geldes and Jesús Santorcuato

Productive Tensions of Corporate Pride Partnerships: Towards a Relational Ethics of Constitutive Impurity pp. 345-363

Jannick Friis Christensen, Sine N. Just and Stefan Schwarzkopf

Governing the Responsible Investment of Slack Resources in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Performance: How Beneficial are CSR Committees? pp. 365-385

Tim Heubeck and Annina Ahrens

Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct pp. 387-406

Hunter Jones and Eric Arnould

Understanding Multiple Perspectives on Social Value in Business: An Integrative Review and Typology pp. 407-435

Marcelo F. Cruz Jara and Jelena Spanjol

Does Soft Information Mitigate Gender Bias in Corporate Lending? pp. 437-466

Udichibarna Bose, Stefano Filomeni and Elena Tabacco

Exploring Confucian Culture’s Impact on Corporate Debt Default Risk: An Ethical Decision-Making Approach pp. 467-484

Ning Zhang, Lan Bo, Shulin Wang and Xuanqiao Wang

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