Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 194, issue 4, 2024

The Business of (Im)migration: Bodies Across Borders pp. 747-752

Paulina Segarra, Vijayta Doshi, Martyna Śliwa, Marco Distinto and Arturo Osorio

‘Migration Under the Glow of Privilege’—Unpacking Privilege and Its Effect on the Migration Experience pp. 753-773

Kamini Gupta and Hari Bapuji

How Does Legal Status Inform Immigrant Agency During Encounters of Workplace Incivility? pp. 775-787

Amal Abdellatif and Ajnesh Prasad

‘I Can Only Do My Best and Leave the Rest to God”: Religious/Spiritual Coping Strategies of African Nurses in the UK pp. 789-808

Florence Karaba

The Expansion of Alternative Forms of Organizing Integration: Imitation, Bricolage, and an Ethic of Care in Migrant Women’s Cooperatives pp. 809-824

María José Zapata Campos

Political Organisational Silence and the Ethics of Care: EU Migrant Restaurant Workers in Brexit Britain pp. 825-844

Laura J. Reeves and Alexandra Bristow

(In)vulnerable Managers in an Immigration Context pp. 845-859

Marke Kivijärvi, Ida Okkonen and Marjo Siltaoja

Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Asylum Seekers: the Silencing of Accounting and Accountability in Offshore Detention Centres pp. 861-885

Sendirella George, Erin Twyford and Farzana Aman Tanima

Refugee Entrepreneurship: Resolving Multi-contextuality and Differential Exclusion pp. 887-913

Ugur Yetkin and Deniz Tunçalp

Volume 194, issue 3, 2024

Organizational Good Epistemic Practices pp. 485-500

Lisa Warenski

Mimicry Dynamics: A Study of Multinational Enterprises’ Philanthropy in China pp. 501-521

Jianjun Zhang, Li Tong and Kunyuan Qiao

Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace: The Contingent Nature of Business-Related Action with Respect to Peace Positive Impacts pp. 523-544

Sarah Cechvala and Brian Ganson

Maintaining “Good” Care: An Articulation Work Perspective on Organizational Ethics in the Healthcare Sector pp. 545-560

Jean-Baptiste Suquet and Damien Collard

Embedding Owner-Manager Values in the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Context: A Lockean Conceptualisation pp. 561-581

Simon Oldham

Building Common Ground: How Facilitators Bridge Between Diverging Groups in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue pp. 583-608

Julia Grimm, Rebecca C. Ruehle and Juliane Reinecke

Beliefs Matter: Local Climate Concerns and Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States pp. 609-632

Glen Dowell and Thomas Lyon

How Officials’ Political Incentives Influence Corporate Green Innovation pp. 633-653

Shenggang Ren, Donghua Liu and Ji Yan

Top Managers’ Rice Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance pp. 655-678

Yonggen Luo, Dongmin Kong and Huijie Cui

Social Diversity on Corporate Boards in a Country Torn by Civil War pp. 679-706

Kamil K. Nazliben, Luc Renneboog and Emil Uduwalage

Religion in Family Firms: A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective on Top-Level Executives with Perceived Religiosity pp. 707-730

Fabian Ernst, David Bendig and Lea Puechel

A Functional Model of Social Loafing: When and How Does Social Loafing Enhance Job Performance? pp. 731-745

Xin Liu, Xiaoming Zheng, Yu Yu, Ying Zhang and John M. Schaubroeck

Volume 194, issue 2, 2024

“It’s Business”: A Qualitative Study of Moral Injury in Business Settings; Experiences, Outcomes and Protecting and Exacerbating Factors pp. 233-249

Karina Nielsen, Claire Agate, Joanna Yarker and Rachel Lewis

Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms pp. 251-274

Daniela Aliberti, Rita Bissola and Barbara Imperatori

At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice pp. 275-284

Luigino Bruni

Universal Design for the Workplace: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities pp. 285-296

Claire Doussard, Emmanuelle Garbe, Jeremy Morales and Julien Billion

Turning a Blind Eye to Team Members’ Unethical Behavior: The Role of Reward Systems pp. 297-316

Qiongjing Hu, Hajo Adam, Sreedhari Desai and Shenjiang Mo

Why and When Do Employees Feel Guilty About Observing Supervisor Ostracism? The Critical Roles of Observers’ Silence Behavior and Leader–Member Exchange Quality pp. 317-334

Muhammad Umer Azeem, Inam Ul Haq, Dirk Clercq and Cong Liu

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Auditor Ethical Conflict and Turnover Intention pp. 335-350

Guillermina Tormo-Carbó, Zeena Mardawi and Elies Seguí-Mas

The Sadder but Nicer Effect: How Incidental Sadness Reduces Morally Questionable Behavior pp. 351-368

Laura J. Noval, Günter K. Stahl and Chen-Bo Zhong

Publisher Correction to: The Sadder but Nicer Effect: How Incidental Sadness Reduces Morally Questionable Behavior pp. 369-369

Laura J. Noval, Günter K. Stahl and Chen-Bo Zhong

When There’s No One Else to Blame: The Impact of Coworkers’ Perceived Competence and Warmth on the Relations between Ostracism, Shame, and Ingratiation pp. 371-386

Sara Joy Krivacek, Christian N. Thoroughgood, Katina B. Sawyer, Nicholas Anthony Smith and Thomas J. Zagenczyk

The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective pp. 387-432

Yusi Jiang, Wan Cheng and Xuemei Xie

Do Internal Auditors Make Consistent Ethical Judgments in English and Chinese in Reporting Wrongdoing? pp. 433-453

Peipei Pan and Chris Patel

Ethical Leadership on the Rise? A Cross-Temporal and Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis of its Means, Variability, and Relationships with Follower Outcomes Across 15 Years pp. 455-483

Justine Amory, Bart Wille, Brenton M. Wiernik and Sofie Dupré

Volume 194, issue 1, 2024

Mrs. Dalloway and the Shecession: The Interconnectedness and Intersectionalities of Care Ethics and Social Time During the Pandemic pp. 1-18

Lakshmi Balachandran Nair

Organizational Top Dog (vs. Underdog) Narratives Increase the Punishment of Corporate Moral Transgressions: When Dominance is a Liability and Prestige is an Asset pp. 19-36

Anika Schumacher and Robert Mai

Engaging, Distancing and Surrendering: Moral Legitimation of Controversial Organizational Decisions in the Media pp. 37-59

Niina Erkama and Jo Angouri

Psychological Reactance to Anti-Piracy Messages explained by Gender and Attitudes pp. 61-75

Kate Whitman, Zahra Murad and Joe Cox

Corporate Social Responsibility and Information Asymmetry: Do Earnings Conference Calls Play a Role? pp. 77-101

Dan Palmon, Yifei Chen and Biao Chen

How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study pp. 103-118

Irmela Fritzi Koch-Bayram and Torsten Biemann

Individual Auditor Social Responsibility and Audit Quality: Evidence from China pp. 119-144

Jeffrey Pittman, Baolei Qi, Yi Si, Zi-Tian Wang and Chongwu Xia

Rules of the Game and Credibility of Implementation in the Control of Corruption pp. 145-163

Karl Z. Meyer, John Luiz and Johannes Fedderke

Shifting Stakeholders Logics: Foreign Institutional Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 165-183

Xu Cheng, Xiandeng Jiang, Dongmin Kong and Samuel Vigne

Who Keeps Company with the Wolf will Learn to Howl: Does Local Corruption Culture Affect Financial Adviser Misconduct? pp. 185-210

Mia Hang Pham, Harvey Nguyen, Martin Young and Anh Dao

Local Tournament Incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 211-228

Yiqing Tan

No Planet B Available! A Review of The Climate Book: The Facts and Solutions by Greta Thunberg pp. 229-232

Sorin M. S. Krammer