Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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

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Volume 175, issue 4, 2022

Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing and Its Marketing: Emergent Ethical and Public Policy Implications pp. 669-688

Alexander Nill and Gene Laczniak

Autonomy and Manipulation: Refining the Argument Against Persuasive Advertising pp. 689-699

Timothy Aylsworth

Accumulative vs. Appreciative Expressions of Materialism: Revising Materialism in Light of Polish Simplifiers and New Materialism pp. 701-719

Justyna Kramarczyk and Mathieu Alemany Oliver

Building Projects on the Local Communities’ Planet: Studying Organizations’ Care-Giving Approaches pp. 721-740

Roya Derakhshan

Debating Ethics or Risks? An Exploratory Study of Audit Partners’ Peer Consultations About Ethics pp. 741-758

Mouna Hazgui and Marion Brivot

CEO Pay and the Argument from Peer Comparison pp. 759-771

Joakim Sandberg and Alexander Andersson

Locality Stereotype, CEO Trustworthiness and Stock Price Crash Risk: Evidence from China pp. 773-797

Leilei Gu, Jinyu Liu and Yuchao Peng

The Ethicality of Point-of-Sale Marketing Campaigns: Normative Ethics Applied to Cause-Related Checkout Charities pp. 799-814

Jay L. Caulfield, Catharyn A. Baird and Felissa K. Lee

Is There a Trade-Off Between Accrual-Based and Real Earnings Management Activities in the Presence of (fe) Male Auditors? pp. 815-836

Andrews Owusu, Alaa Mansour Zalata, Kamil Omoteso and Ahmed A. Elamer

Effect of CSR and Ethical Practices on Sustainable Competitive Performance: A Case of Emerging Markets from Stakeholder Theory Perspective pp. 837-855

Abdul Waheed and Qingyu Zhang

How Much You See Is How You Respond: The Curvilinear Relationship Between the Frequency of Observed Unethical Behavior and The Whistleblowing Intention pp. 857-875

Muel Kaptein

Volume 175, issue 3, 2022

Resistance Will Be Futile? The Stigmatization (or Not) of Whistleblowers pp. 451-464

Meghan Portfliet

Fear and Violence as Organizational Strategies: The Possibility of a Derridean Lens to Analyze Extra-judicial Police Violence pp. 465-484

Srinath Jagannathan, Rajnish Rai and Christophe Jaffrelot

Moral Recovery and Ethical Leadership pp. 485-497

John G. Cullen

How Unbecoming of You: Online Experiments Uncovering Gender Biases in Perceptions of Ridesharing Performance pp. 499-518

Brad Greenwood, Idris Adjerid, Corey M. Angst and Nathan L. Meikle

Arguing to Defeat: Eristic Argumentation and Irrationality in Resolving Moral Concerns pp. 519-535

Rasim Serdar Kurdoglu and Nüfer Yasin Ateş

Socratic Ignorance and Business Ethics pp. 537-553

Santiago Mejia

Cure or Sell: How Do Pharmaceutical Industry Marketers Combine Their Dual Mission? An Approach Using Moral Dissonance pp. 555-581

Bénédicte Bourcier-Béquaert, Loréa Baïada-Hirèche and Anne Sachet-Milliat

Country Portfolio and Taxation: Evidence from Japan pp. 583-607

Junjian Gu

Doing Good by Doing Bad: How Tone at the Top and Tone at the Bottom Impact Performance-Improving Noncompliant Behavior pp. 609-624

Corinna Ewelt-Knauer, Anja Schwering and Sandra Winkelmann

Corporate Social Responsibility and NGO Directors on Boards pp. 625-649

Shili Chen, Niels Hermes and Reggy Hooghiemstra

The Case for Ethical Non-compete Agreements: Executives Versus Sandwich-Makers pp. 651-668

Lauren E. Aydinliyim

Volume 175, issue 2, 2022

All About Patriarchal Segregation of Work Regarding Family? Women Business-Owners in Bangladesh pp. 231-245

Jasmine Jaim

Disobeying Orders’ as Responsible Leadership: Revisiting Churchill, Percival and the Fall of Singapore pp. 247-263

Amy L. Fraher

Navigating Between the Plots: A Narratological and Ethical Analysis of Business-Related Conspiracy Theories (BrCTs) pp. 265-288

Mathieu Alemany Oliver

When Targets Strike Back: How Negative Workplace Gossip Triggers Political Acts by Employees pp. 289-302

Bao Cheng, Yun Dong, Zhenduo Zhang, Ahmed Shaalan, Gongxing Guo and Yan Peng

A Socio-cognitive Model of Sustainability Performance: Linking CEO Career Experience, Social Ties, and Attention Breadth pp. 303-321

Yoojung Ahn

Treat Floating People Fairly: How Compensation Equity and Multilevel Social Exclusion Influence Prosocial Behavior Among China’s Floating Population pp. 323-338

Yidong Tu, Ying Zhang, Yongkang Yang and Shengfeng Lu

Factors Affecting the Effectiveness of Cause-Related Marketing: A Meta-Analysis pp. 339-360

Xiaojun Fan, Nianqi Deng, Yi Qian and Xuebing Dong

How Corporate Reputation Disclosures Affect Stakeholders’ Behavioral Intentions: Mediating Mechanisms of Perceived Organizational Performance and Corporate Reputation pp. 361-389

Kim T. Baumgartner, Carolin A. Ernst and Thomas M. Fischer

Allegations of Sexual Misconduct: A View from the Observation Deck of Power Distance Belief pp. 391-410

Shalini Sarin Jain and Joon Sung Lee

Correction to: Allegations of Sexual Misconduct: A View from the Observation Deck of Power Distance Belief pp. 411-411

Shalini Sarin Jain and Joon Sung Lee

Losing More than Money: Organizations’ Prosocial Actions Appear Less Authentic When Their Resources are Declining pp. 413-425

Arthur S. Jago, Nathanael Fast and Jeffrey Pfeffer

The Effect of Investor Sentiment on Nonprofit Donations pp. 427-450

Keval Amin and Erica Harris

Volume 175, issue 1, 2022

The Metrics of Ethics and the Ethics of Metrics pp. 1-5

Gazi Islam and Michelle Greenwood

Highway to (Digital) Surveillance: When Are Clients Coerced to Share Their Data with Insurers? pp. 7-19

Michele Loi, Christian Hauser and Markus Christen

Correction to: Highway to (Digital) Surveillance: When Are Clients Coerced to Share Their Data with Insurers? pp. 21-21

Michele Loi, Christian Hauser and Markus Christen

Just Look at the Numbers: A Case Study on Quantification in Corporate Environmental Disclosures pp. 23-44

Janne Järvinen, Matias Laine, Timo Hyvönen and Hannele Kantola

When Does Corporate Social Responsibility Backfire in Acquisitions? Signal Incongruence and Acquirer Returns pp. 45-58

Tingting Zhang, Zhengyi Zhang and Jingyu Yang

Inducing Corporate Social Responsibility: Should Investors Reward the Responsible or Punish the Irresponsible? pp. 59-73

Tyson B. Mackey, Alison Mackey, Lisa Jones Christensen and Jason J. Lepore

Stakeholder Engagement, Knowledge Problems and Ethical Challenges pp. 75-94

J. Robert Mitchell, Ronald K. Mitchell, Richard A. Hunt, David M. Townsend and Jae H. Lee

Trust Erosion During Industry-Wide Crises: The Central Role of Consumer Legitimacy Judgement pp. 95-116

Shijiao Chen, Jing A. Zhang, Hongzhi Gao, Zhilin Yang and Damien Mather

Contesting Dishonesty: When and Why Perspective-Taking Decreases Ethical Tolerance of Marketplace Deception pp. 117-133

Guang-Xin Xie, Hua Chang and Tracy Rank-Christman

A Configurational Analysis of the Causes of Consumer Indirect Misbehaviors in Access-Based Consumption pp. 135-166

Xiao-Ling Jin, Zhongyun Zhou and Yiwei Tian

Drivers of Sustainability and Consumer Well-Being: An Ethically-Based Examination of Religious and Cultural Values pp. 167-190

Elizabeth A. Minton, Soo Jiuan Tan, Siok Kuan Tambyah and Richie L. Liu

How Yoga-Based Practices Build Altruistic Behavior? Examining the Role of Subjective Vitality, Self-transcendence, and Psychological Capital pp. 191-206

Chirag Dagar, Ashish Pandey and Ajinkya Navare

Competing Logics in the Islamic Funds Industry: A Market Logic Versus a Religious Logic pp. 207-230

Khaled O. Alotaibi, Christine Helliar and Nongnuch Tantisantiwong

Volume 174, issue 4, 2021

Management and Business Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to Special Issue pp. 739-746

Anna Soulsby, Anna Remišová and Thomas Steger

Corruption, Bribery and Innovation in CEE: Where is the Link? pp. 747-762

Doren Chadee, Banjo Roxas and Alexandre Kouznetsov

Corporate Social Responsibility in Liquid Times: The Case of Romania pp. 763-782

Georgiana Grigore, Mike Molesworth, Andreea Vontea, Abdullah Hasan Basnawi, Ogeday Celep and Sylvian Patrick Jesudoss

Inherited Scepticism and Neo-communist CSR-washing: Evidence from a Post-communist Society pp. 783-804

Petya Koleva and Maureen Meadows

The Behavior of Organization in Economic Crisis: Integration, Interpretation, and Research Development pp. 805-823

Vojko Potocan and Zlatko Nedelko

Living with Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe: Social Identity and the Role of Moral Disengagement pp. 825-845

Katalin Takacs Haynes and Matevž (Matt) Rašković

The Rise and Fading Away of Charisma. Leadership Transition and Managerial Ethics in the Post-Soviet Media Holdings pp. 847-860

Dinara Tokbaeva

Volume 174, issue 3, 2021

A Social Mission is Not Enough: Reflecting the Normative Foundations of Social Entrepreneurship pp. 487-505

Ignas Bruder

Integrating CSR with Business Strategy: A Tension Management Perspective pp. 507-527

Jaakko Siltaloppi, Risto Rajala and Henri Hietala

Social Media as a Form of Virtual Whistleblowing: Empirical Evidence for Elements of the Diamond Model pp. 529-548

Hengky Latan, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour and Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour

What You Get is What You See: Other-Rated but not Self-Rated Leaders’ Narcissistic Rivalry Affects Followers Negatively pp. 549-566

Theresa Fehn and Astrid Schütz

The Effects of Spirituality and Religiosity on the Ethical Judgment in Organizations pp. 567-593

Faisal Alshehri, Marianna Fotaki and Saleema Kauser

CSR and Family CEO: The Moderating Role of CEO’s Age pp. 595-612

Olivier Meier and Guillaume Schier

Progressive and Rational CSR as Catalysts of New Product Introductions pp. 613-627

Maria Jose Murcia

Incumbent Stakeholder Management Performance and New Entry pp. 629-644

André Laplume, Kent Walker, Zhou Zhang and Xin Yu

Workplace Spirituality and Experienced Incivility at Work: Modeling Dark Triad as a Moderator pp. 645-667

Madhu Lata and Richa Chaudhary

Leader-Expressed Humility Predicting Team Psychological Safety: A Personality Dynamics Lens pp. 669-686

Arménio Rego, Ana I. Melo, Dustin J. Bluhm, Miguel Pina Cunha and Dálcio Reis Júnior

Do Banks Value Borrowers' Environmental Record? Evidence from Financial Contracts pp. 687-713

I-Ju Chen, Iftekhar Hasan, Chih-Yung Lin and Tra Ngoc Vy Nguyen

The Role of Mutual Funds in Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 715-737

Zhichuan Frank Li, Saurin Patel and Srikanth Ramani

Volume 174, issue 2, 2021

Enchantment in Business Ethics Research pp. 251-262

Emma Bell, Nik Winchester and Edward Wray-Bliss

“We Ought to Eat in Order to Work, Not Vice Versa”: MacIntyre, Practices, and the Best Work for Humankind pp. 263-274

Matthew Sinnicks

Cruel Optimism and Precarious Employment: The Crisis Ordinariness of Academic Work pp. 275-290

Kate Daisy Bone

Why Financial Executives Do Bad Things: The Effects of the Slippery Slope and Tone at the Top on Misreporting Behavior pp. 291-309

Anna M. Rose, Jacob M. Rose, Ikseon Suh, Jay Thibodeau, Kristina Linke and Carolyn Strand Norman

I Know What I Need: Optimization of Bribery pp. 311-332

Yu Yan and Shusen Qi

Peer Ostracism as a Sanction Against Wrongdoers and Whistleblowers pp. 333-354

Mary B. Curtis, Jesse C. Robertson, R. Cameron Cockrell and L. Dutch Fayard

Examining the Boundaries of Ethical Leadership: The Harmful Effect of Co-worker Social Undermining on Disengagement and Employee Attitudes pp. 355-368

Ahmed Mohammed Sayed Mostafa, Sam Farley and Monica Zaharie

The Influence of Organizations’ Tax Avoidance Practices on Consumers’ Behavior: The Role of Moral Reasoning Strategies, Political Ideology, and Brand Identification pp. 369-386

Jorge Matute, José Luis Sánchez-Torelló and Ramon Palau-Saumell

Effects of Advice on Auditor Whistleblowing Propensity: Do Advice Source and Advisor Reassurance Matter? pp. 387-402

El’fred Boo, Terence Ng and Premila Gowri Shankar

“Just Look the Other Way”: Job Seekers’ Reactions to the Irresponsibility of Market-Dominant Employers pp. 403-422

Paolo Antonetti, Benedetta Crisafulli and Aybars Tuncdogan

The Role of Authentic (vs. Hubristic) Pride in Leveraging the Effectiveness of Cost Transparency pp. 423-439

Felix Septianto, Joya A. Kemper, Fandy Tjiptono and Widya Paramita

Reframing Business Sustainability Decision-Making with Value-Focussed Thinking pp. 441-456

Julia Benkert

Causal and Corrective Organisational Culture: A Systematic Review of Case Studies of Institutional Failure pp. 457-483

E. Julie Hald, Alex Gillespie and Tom W. Reader

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Compliance as a Cost-Effective System of Interaction Between Business and Government pp. 485-485

Nikolay I. Dorogov, Ivan A. Kapitonov and Nazygul T. Batyrova

Volume 174, issue 1, 2021

Spheres of Influence: A Walzerian Approach to Business Ethics pp. 1-14

Andrew C. Wicks, Patricia H. Werhane, Heather Elms and John Nolan

What Do Business Executives Think About Distributive Justice? pp. 15-33

Susanne Burri, Daniela Lup and Alexander Pepper

Engaging Employees for the Long Run: Long-Term Investors and Employee-Related CSR pp. 35-63

Alexandre Garel and Arthur Petit-Romec

Drama and Discounting in the Relational Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 65-88

Georgiana Grigore, Mike Molesworth, Andreea Vonțea, Abdullah Hasan Basnawi, Ogeday Celep and Sylvian Patrick Jesudoss

The Moderating Effect of Cultural Values on the Relationship Between Corporate Social Performance and Firm Performance pp. 89-107

Wei Shi and Kevin Veenstra

Moral Burden of Bottom-Line Pursuits: How and When Perceptions of Top Management Bottom-Line Mentality Inhibit Supervisors’ Ethical Leadership Practices pp. 109-123

Rebecca L. Greenbaum, Mayowa Babalola, Matthew J. Quade, Liang Guo and Yun Chung Kim

Correction to: Moral Burden of Bottom-Line Pursuits: How and When Perceptions of Top Management Bottom-Line Mentality Inhibit Supervisors’ Ethical Leadership Practices pp. 125-125

Rebecca L. Greenbaum, Mayowa T. Babalola, Matthew J. Quade, Liang Guo and Yun Chung Kim

Moral Identity and the Quaker tradition: Moral Dissonance Negotiation in the WorkPlace pp. 127-141

Nicholas Burton and Mai Chi Vu

Good Barrels Yield Healthy Apples: Organizational Ethics as a Mechanism for Mitigating Work-Related Stress and Promoting Employee Well-Being pp. 143-159

Charles H. Schwepker, Sean R. Valentine, Robert A. Giacalone and Mark Promislo

Personal Values and Ethical Behavior in Accounting Students pp. 161-176

Grace Mubako, Kallol Bagchi, Godwin Udo and Marjorie Marinovic

Female Audit Partners and Extended Audit Reporting: UK Evidence pp. 177-197

Tarek Abdelfattah, Mohamed Elmahgoub and Ahmed Elamer

Information Asymmetries in Private Equity: Reporting Frequency, Endowments, and Governance pp. 199-220

Sofia Johan and Minjie Zhang

Culture and Multiple Firm–Bank Relationships: A Matter of Secrecy and Trust? pp. 221-249

Fotios Pasiouras, Elie Bouri, David Roubaud and Emilios Galariotis