Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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

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Volume 196, issue 4, 2025

Fashionable Ethics: Exploring Ethical Perspectives in the Production, Marketing, and Consumption of Fashion pp. 711-721

Patsy Perry, Victoria-Sophie Osburg, Fahian Anisul Huq and Mbaye Fall Diallo

Ethical Sourcing and Decision Making in the Fashion Industry: A Longitudinal Qualitative Examination pp. 723-751

Anushree Tandon, Amandeep Dhir, Puneet Kaur and Chidiebere Ogbonnaya

Effective Awe-Inspiring Visual Content Strategy for Social Media Engagement with Ethical Fashion Brands: The Mediating Role of Deontological Ethical Beliefs pp. 753-771

Weilin Pu, Yilu Wang, Giuseppe Daniele Ibello, Rishav Chakraborty, Mojun Yang, Ka Wing Chan, Rafi Chowdhury, Felix Septianto and Junbum Kwon

Consumers’ Responses to Moral Transgressions in the Fashion Industry: Comparative Insights from Western Developed and Southeast Asian Emerging Markets pp. 773-806

Thi Thanh Huong Tran and Fabian Bartsch

Effects of Two Face Regulatory Foci About Ethical Fashion Consumption in a Confucian Context pp. 807-825

Xiaoyong Wei and Bin Shen

Upcycling Agency: Material and Human Transformation for Sustainability in Fashion pp. 827-843

Mollie Painter, Alex Hiller and Johanna Oehlmann

Beyond Novelty and Growth: A Virtue Ethics Enquiry into Fashion Entrepreneurs’ Responsible and Harmonising Practices Towards Sustainability pp. 845-861

Andrea Werner, Patrick Elf, Fergus Lyon and Ian Vickers

Refashioning Second-Hand Clothes Consumption Through Pleasure, Pain, Seduction and Conversion: A Virtue Ethics Perspective pp. 863-881

Kristina Auxtova, Stephanie Schreven and Lucy J. Wishart

Authentic Brand Ethicality: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation in the Fashion Industry pp. 883-915

Katharina Petra Zeugner-Roth, Peter Mathias Fischer and Isabella Margaux Hessel

“I Crossed My Own Line, But Here is What I do”: The Moral Transgressions of Sustainable Fashion Consumers and Their Use of Alternating Moral Practices as a Cognitive-Dissonance-Reducing Strategy pp. 917-936

Hafize Celik and Ahmet Ekici

Volume 196, issue 3, 2025

Contributing to Business Ethics though Thick Conceptualization pp. 495-498

Michelle Greenwood and Gazi Islam

Conceptualising Sustainability as the Pursuit of Life pp. 499-521

Frederik Dahlmann

Mapping the Contours of Blame: An Account of the Moral Boundaries of Organizations pp. 523-537

Rita Mota and Alan D. Morrison

Dishing Up Morality: How Chefs Account for Gratuity pp. 539-553

Edward N. Gamble, Omar Shehryar, Janet Gamble and Michelle Hall

A Contractarian Approach to Actuarial Fairness pp. 555-564

Antonio J. Heras, Pierre-Charles Pradier and David Teira

The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate pp. 565-580

Mikko Ketokivi, Sebastien M. Fosse and Peter Kawalek

Redefining Academic Safe Space for Responsible Management Education pp. 581-601

Joé T. Martineau and Audrey-Anne Cyr

Anxious Altruism: Virtue Signaling Mediates the Impact of Attachment Style on Consumers’ Green Purchase Behavior and Prosocial Responses pp. 603-637

Muhammad Junaid Shahid Hasni, Faruk Anıl Konuk and Tobias Otterbring

Can Consumers’ Altruistic Inferences Solve the CSR Initiative Puzzle? A Meta-analytic Investigation pp. 639-658

François A. Carrillat, Carolin Plewa, Ljubomir Pupovac, Chloé Vanasse, Taylor Willmott, Renaud Legoux and Ekaterina Napolova

Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO Led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives pp. 659-675

Chaudhry Ghafran and Sofia Yasmin

Will a Moral Follower Please Stand Up (to the Machiavellian Leader)? The Effects of Machiavellian Leadership on Moral Anger and Whistleblowing pp. 677-694

Taran Lee-Kugler, Jun Gu, Quan Li, Nathan Eva and Rebecca Mitchell

A Moral Evaluation of LBOs pp. 695-709

Aurélien Philippot

Volume 196, issue 2, 2025

Ethics of Quantification and Randomised Control Trials in International Development: A Decolonial Analysis pp. 241-254

Emily Cook-Lundgren and Emanuela Girei

Being (Ab)normal – Be(com)ing Other: Struggles Over Enacting an Ethos of Difference in a Psychosocial Care Centre pp. 255-272

Bernadette Loacker and Richard Weiskopf

The (In)Visibility of Diversity in Alternative Organizations pp. 273-289

Regine Bendl, Alexander Fleischmann and Angelika Schmidt

Hybridity in Nonprofit Organizations: Organizational Perspectives on Combining Multiple Logics pp. 291-307

Aastha Malhotra, April L. Wright and Lee C. Jarvis

Maximizing Shareholder Welfare: A Normative Examination of Hart and Zingales’ Corporate Governance Account pp. 309-323

Santiago Mejia and Pietro Bonaldi

On ‘the Politics of Repair Beyond Repair’: Radical Democracy and the Right to Repair Movement pp. 325-344

Javier Lloveras, Mario Pansera and Adrian Smith

Digital Inclusion and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending pp. 345-380

Xiaoran Jia and Kiridaran Kanagaretnam

Selling Who You Know: How We Justify Sharing Others’ Data pp. 381-417

Susanne Ruckelshausen, Bernadette Kamleitner and Vincent Mitchell

Hypocrites! Social Media Reactions and Stakeholder Backlash to Conflicting CSR Information pp. 419-437

Lisa D. Lewin and Danielle E. Warren

Who Rewards Appropriate Levels of Professional Skepticism? pp. 439-450

Joseph F. Brazel, Justin Leiby and Tammie J. Schaefer

How Do Institutional Prescriptions (Fail to) Address Governance Challenges Under Institutional Hybridity? The Case of Governance Code Creation for Cooperative Enterprises pp. 451-470

Jozef Cossey, Adrien Billiet, Frédéric Dufays and Johan Bruneel

Correction to: How Do Institutional Prescriptions (Fail to) Address Governance Challenges Under Institutional Hybridity? The Case of Governance Code Creation for Cooperative Enterprises pp. 471-471

Jozef Cossey, Adrien Billiet, Frédéric Dufays and Johan Bruneel

Navigating the Ethical Terrain Around the Challenges of Fake News and False Narratives: An Integrative Literature Review and a Proposed Agenda for Future Research pp. 473-493

Pramukh Nanjundaswamy Vasist and Satish Krishnan

Volume 196, issue 1, 2025

A Tribute to Neil Olivier and His Contribution to Business Ethics Publishing pp. 1-2

Sivakani Jayaprakash, Michelle Greenwood and Gazi Islam

The Ethics of Commons Organizing: A Critical Reading pp. 3-20

David Murillo, Pau Guinart and Daniel Arenas

Escaping the Loop of Unsustainability: Why and How Business Ethics Matters for Earth System Justice pp. 21-29

Anselm Schneider and John Murray

Climate Change Denial and Corporate Environmental Responsibility pp. 31-59

Mansoor Afzali, Gonul Colak and Sami Vähämaa

Impact of Corporate Culture on Environmental Performance pp. 61-92

Mabel D. Costa and Solomon Opare

Standing Up or Standing By: Abnormally Hot Temperatures and Corporate Environmental Engagement pp. 93-127

Jiaxin Wang, Jingyi Zhuang, Chao Yan and Kam C. Chan

Contextualizing Ethical Climate: Examining Contextual Moderators of the Connection Between Ethical Climate Perceptions and Ethical Behavior pp. 129-148

Jay Bates, Jeremy M. Beus and Shaun Parkinson

The Affective Processes of Ethical Leadership: The Role of Moral Emotions pp. 149-167

Sophia Soyoung Jeong, Cong (Timothy) Sun and Kai Chi Yam

How Ethical Leadership and Ethical Self-Leadership Enhance the Effects of Idiosyncratic Deals on Salesperson Work Engagement and Performance pp. 169-188

Ashish Kalra, Rakesh Singh, Vishag Badrinarayanan and Aditya Gupta

Decreasing Workplace Unethical Behavior Through Mindfulness: A Study Based on the Dual-System Theory of Ethical Decision-Making pp. 189-207

Xiaodong Ming, Xinwen Bai, Jingyu Fu and Jianfeng Yang

The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Employee Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Employment Contract Type pp. 209-221

Yonghong Liu, Chen Zhao, Zhiyong Yang and Zhonghua Gao

In Defence of the Indefensible: Exploring Justification Narratives of Corporate Elites Accused of Corruption pp. 223-240

Mabel Torbor, David Sarpong, George Ofosu and Derrick Boakye

Volume 195, issue 4, 2024

Social Systems as Moral Agents: A Systems Approach to Moral Agency in Business pp. 695-711

J. M. L. Pedro

The Banality of Organizational Wrongdoing: A Reading on Arendt’s Thoughtlessness Thesis pp. 713-727

Javier Hernández and Consuelo Araos

“Be Not Conformed to this World”: MacIntyre’s Critique of Modernity and Amish Business Ethics pp. 729-761

Sunny Jeong, Matthew Sinnicks, Nicholas Burton and Mai Chi Vu

The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching pp. 763-777

Florian Fuchs and Volker Lingnau

Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity pp. 779-797

Richa Chaudhary, Anupriya Singh and Shalini Srivastava

Under Pressure: LMX Drives Employee Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior via Threat Appraisals pp. 799-812

Chen Tang, Ying Chen, Wu Wei and Daniel A. Newman

The Ripple Effect: When Leader Self-Group Distancing Responses Affect Subordinate Career Trajectories pp. 813-829

Hannah Kremer, Isabel Villamor and Margaret Ormiston

Caught in a Dilemma: The Impacts of Dual Organizational Identification on Host Country Nationals in the Face of Ethical Controversies pp. 831-857

Ya Xi Shen, Chuang Zhang, Long Zhang, Ting Liu and Sijia Zhao

When the Punisher is Both Potential Victim and (Intended) Beneficiary: Investigating Observers’ Attitudinal and Behavioral Reactions Toward Organizational Punishment Severity for Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviors pp. 859-877

Xuemei Liu, Ying Wang, Fan Yang and Qianyao Huang

The Devil is in the Details: Sexual Harassment e-Training Design Choices and Perceived Messenger Integrity pp. 879-898

Shannon L. Rawski, Emilija Djurdjevic, Andrew T. Soderberg and Joshua R. Foster

Boardroom Diversity and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from the UK Firms pp. 899-920

Ishwar Khatri

Volume 195, issue 3, 2024

Responsible Business Conduct in Commodity Trading—A Multidisciplinary Review pp. 449-473

Henrietta Dorfmüller, Wangui Kimotho, Isabel Ebert, Pascal Dey and Florian Wettstein

Import Penetration and Corporate Misconduct: A Natural Experiment pp. 475-506

Christopher Dupuis and Ying Zheng

Structures Supporting Virtuous Moral Agency: An Empirical Enquiry pp. 507-534

Dirk Vriens, Riki A. M. Wit and Claudia Groß

Correction to: Structures Supporting Virtuous Moral Agency: An Empirical Enquiry pp. 535-535

Dirk Vriens, Riki A. M. Wit and Claudia Groß

Demystifying Benevolent Leadership: When Subordinates Feel Obligated to Undertake Illegitimate Tasks pp. 537-561

Shen Ye, Lu Chen and Yuanmei (Elly) Qu

The Experience and Implications of Meaningless Work in the Public Sector pp. 563-578

Christopher Belanger, Samia Chreim and Silvia Bonaccio

Are Companies Offloading Risk onto Employees in Times of Uncertainty? Insights from Corporate Pension Plans pp. 579-598

Douglas Cumming, Fanyu Lu, Limin Xu and Chia-Feng (Jeffrey) Yu

Doing Good and Doing Well? CSR Climate as a Driver of Team Empowerment and Team Performance pp. 599-614

Tom Kluijtmans, Kenn Meyfroodt and Saskia Crucke

Ethics of Care and Employees: The Impact of Female Board Representation and Top Management Leadership on Human Capital Development Policies pp. 615-629

Conor Callahan, Arjun Mitra and Steve Sauerwald

Beyond Reach but Within Sight: Ethical Leaders’ Pursuit of Seemingly Unattainable Role Models in East Asia pp. 631-652

Sophia Chia-Min Chou

Generating the Moral Agency to Report Peers’ Counterproductive Work Behavior in Normal and Extreme Contexts: The Generative Roles of Ethical Leadership, Moral Potency, and Psychological Safety pp. 653-680

John J. Sumanth, Sean T. Hannah, Kenneth C. Herbst and Ronald L. Thompson

Personality Discrimination and the Wrongness of Hiring Based on Extraversion pp. 681-694

Joona Räsänen and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

Volume 195, issue 2, 2024

Language as a Source of Epistemic Injustice in Organisations pp. 233-247

Natalie Victoria Wilmot

Can You Hear Nature Sing? Enacting the Syilx Ethical Practice of Nʕawqnwixʷ to Reconstruct the Relationships Between Humans and Nature pp. 249-268

Grace H. Fan

Diversity and Business Legitimacy pp. 269-281

Adam Gjesdal

The Nexus Between Sources of Workers’ Power in the Garment Manufacturing Industries of Lesotho and Eswatini pp. 283-298

Søren Jeppesen and Andries Bezuidenhout

Moral Economy and the Ethics of the Real Living Wage in UK Football Clubs pp. 299-314

Tony Dobbins and Peter Prowse

Silent Majority: How Employees’ Perceptions of Corporate Hypocrisy are Related to their Silence pp. 315-334

Yiming Wang, Yuhua Xie, Mingwei Liu, Yongxing Guo and Duojun He

The Labyrinth of Corruption in the Construction Industry: A System Dynamics Model Based on 40 Years of Research pp. 335-352

Seyed Ashkan Zarghami

Enduring, Strategizing, and Rising Above: Workplace Dignity Threats and Responses Across Job Levels pp. 353-374

Jacqueline Tilton, Kristen Lucas, Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart and Justin K. Kent

Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective pp. 375-405

Baniyelme D. Zoogah and Phyllis Swanzy-Krah

An Examination of Ethical Values of Management Accountants pp. 407-423

Donald L. Ariail, Katherine Taken Smith, Lawrence Murphy Smith and Amine Khayati

Academic Fraud and Remote Evaluation of Accounting Students: An Application of the Fraud Triangle pp. 425-447

James Bierstaker, William D. Brink, Sameera Khatoon and Linda Thorne

Volume 195, issue 1, 2024

The Temporal Structuring of Corporate Sustainability pp. 1-23

Sébastien Mena and Simon Parker

Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda pp. 25-46

Brian Baldassarre, Giulia Calabretta, Ingo Oswald Karpen, Nancy Bocken and Erik Jan Hultink

The Dark Side of Firms’ Green Technology Innovation on Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from China pp. 47-66

Xu Chu, Yuntao Bai and Congshan Li

Do Old Board Directors Promote Corporate Social Responsibility? pp. 67-93

Han-Hsing Lee, Woan-lih Liang, Quynh-Nhu Tran and Quang-Thai Truong

Learning from Failures of Co-owned Firms: Common Ownership and Information Disclosure Fraud pp. 95-119

Ziwei Wang, Chunfeng Wang and Zhenming Fang

The Moral Status of Pecuniary Externalities pp. 121-132

Brian Kogelmann and Jeffrey Carroll

Did Facebook Cheat?: A Test Case of Antitrust Ethics pp. 133-149

Jonah Goldwater

Machine Learning for Predicting Corporate Violations: How Do CEO Characteristics Matter? pp. 151-166

Ruijie Sun, Feng Liu, Yinan Li, Rongping Wang and Jing Luo

CEO Religion and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Socio-behavioral Model pp. 167-189

Isabelle Breton-Miller, Danny Miller, Zhenyang Tang and Xiaowei Xu

Untangling the Paradoxical Relationship Between Religion and Business: A Systematic Literature Review of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Religiosity Research pp. 191-214

Tim Heubeck

The Influence of Religious Identification on Strategic Green Marketing Orientation pp. 215-231

Riza Casidy, Denni Arli and Lay Peng Tan