Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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

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Volume 169, issue 4, 2021

A New Research Horizon for Mass Entrepreneurship Policy and Chinese Firms’ CSR: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium pp. 603-607

Zhenzhong Ma and Maoliang Bu

Echoes of CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation: How and When CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation Influences Dual CSR Activities pp. 609-629

Zhe Zhang, Xin Wang and Ming Jia

Looking Backward and Forward: Political Links and Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility in China pp. 631-649

Peng Zhou, Felix Arndt, Kun Jiang and Weiqi Dai

Social Status and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Chinese Privately Owned Firms pp. 651-672

Yang Liu, Weiqi Dai, Mingqing Liao and Jiang Wei

Collide or Collaborate: The Interplay of Competing Logics and Institutional Work in Cross-Sector Social Partnerships pp. 673-694

Juelin Yin and Dima Jamali

Their Pain, Our Pleasure: How and When Peer Abusive Supervision Leads to Third Parties’ Schadenfreude and Work Engagement pp. 695-711

Yueqiao Qiao, Zhe Zhang and Ming Jia

Unveiling (In)Vulnerability in an Adolescent’s Consumption Subculture: A Framework to Understand Adolescents’ Experienced (In)Vulnerability and Ethical Implications pp. 713-730

Wided Batat and John F. Tanner

Removing the Blinders: Increasing Students’ Awareness of Self-Perception Biases and Real-World Ethical Challenges Through an Educational Intervention pp. 731-746

Kathleen A. Tomlin, Matthew L. Metzger and Jill Bradley-Geist

Curbing the Undesirable Effects of Emotional Exhaustion on Ethical Behaviors and Performance: A Salesperson–Manager Dyadic Approach pp. 747-766

Bruno Lussier, Nathaniel N. Hartmann and Willy Bolander

Don’t Pass Them By: Figuring the Sacred in Organizational Values Work pp. 767-784

Gry Espedal and Arne Carlsen

To Erect Temples to Virtue: Effects of State Mindfulness on Other-Focused Ethical Behaviors pp. 785-798

Davide C. Orazi, Jiemiao Chen and Eugene Y. Chan

Volume 169, issue 3, 2021

Contentious Dynamics Within the Social Turbulence of Environmental (In)justice Surrounding Wind Energy Farms in Oaxaca, Mexico pp. 387-404

Jacobo Ramirez

Harmful Stakeholder Strategies pp. 405-419

Jeffrey S. Harrison and Andrew C. Wicks

The Role of Ethical Perceptions in Consumers’ Participation and Value Co-creation on Sharing Economy Platforms pp. 421-441

Waqar Nadeem, Mari Juntunen, Nick Hajli and Mina Tajvidi

Women and Multiple Board Memberships: Social Capital and Institutional Pressure pp. 443-459

Alessandra Rigolini and Morten Huse

Moral Responsibility for Systemic Financial Risk pp. 461-473

Jakob Moggia

Human Resource Disclosures in UK Corporate Annual Reports: To What Extent Do These Reflect Organisational Priorities Towards Labour? pp. 475-497

K. Vithana, T. Soobaroyen and Collins Ntim

Powering Sustainable Consumption: The Roles of Green Consumption Values and Power Distance Belief pp. 499-516

Li Yan, Hean Tat Keh and Xiaoyu Wang

To Blow or Not to Blow the Whistle: The Role of Rationalization in the Perceived Seriousness of Threats and Wrongdoing pp. 517-535

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

Managing Conflict of Interests in Professional Accounting Firms: A Research Synthesis pp. 537-555

Maria Ishaque

The Impact of Proximity on Consumer Fair Trade Engagement and Purchasing Behavior: The Moderating Role of Empathic Concern and Hypocrisy pp. 557-577

Alvina Gillani, Smirti Kutaula, Leonidas C. Leonidou and Paul Christodoulides

Paths of Corporate Irresponsibility: A Dynamic Process pp. 579-601

Jill A. Küberling-Jost

Volume 169, issue 2, 2021

Perspectives, Opportunities and Tensions in Ethical and Sustainable Luxury: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium pp. 201-210

Victoria-Sophie Osburg, Iain Davies, Vignesh Yoganathan and Fraser McLeay

Distinct Effects of Pride and Gratitude Appeals on Sustainable Luxury Brands pp. 211-224

Felix Septianto, Yuri Seo and Amy Christine Errmann

Constructing Personas: How High-Net-Worth Social Media Influencers Reconcile Ethicality and Living a Luxury Lifestyle pp. 225-239

Marina Leban, Thyra Uth Thomsen, Sylvia Wallpach and Benjamin G. Voyer

CSR Actions, Brand Value, and Willingness to Pay a Premium Price for Luxury Brands: Does Long-Term Orientation Matter? pp. 241-260

Mbaye Fall Diallo, Norchène Ben Dahmane Mouelhi, Mahesh Gadekar and Marie Schill

How Nationalistic Appeals Affect Foreign Luxury Brand Reputation: A Study of Ambivalent Effects pp. 261-277

Boris Bartikowski, Fernando Fastoso and Heribert Gierl

Knock, Knock: The Taxman’s at Your Door! Practice Sense, Empathy Games, and Dilemmas in Tax Enforcement pp. 279-292

Carlene Beth Wynter and Lynne Oats

The Value of Character-Based Judgement in the Professional Domain pp. 293-308

James Arthur, Stephen R. Earl, Aidan P. Thompson and Joseph W. Ward

Consumers’ Personality Characteristics, Judgment of Salesperson Ethical Treatment, and Nature of Purchase Involvement pp. 309-331

Connie R. Bateman and Sean R. Valentine

Can Inclusion in Religious Index Membership Mitigate Earnings Management? pp. 333-354

Abdullah Alsaadi

Effects of Internal–External Congruence-Based CSR Positioning: An Attribution Theory Approach pp. 355-369

Whitney Ginder, Wi-Suk Kwon and Sang-Eun Byun

How and When Does Socially Responsible HRM Affect Employees’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Toward the Environment? pp. 371-385

Hongdan Zhao, Qiongyao Zhou, Peixu He and Cuiling Jiang

Volume 169, issue 1, 2021

Sweatshops, Harm, and Interference: A Contractualist Approach pp. 1-11

Huseyin S. Kuyumcuoglu

The Market Response to Mandatory Conflict Mineral Disclosures pp. 13-42

Fayez A. Elayan, Kareen Brown, Jennifer Li and Yijia Chen

Sweatshops, Structural Injustice, and the Wrong of Exploitation: Why Multinational Corporations Have Positive Duties to the Global Poor pp. 43-56

Brian Berkey

An Institutional Approach to Ethical Human Resource Management Practice: Comparing Brazil, Colombia and the UK pp. 57-76

Beatriz Maria Braga, Eduardo Camargo Oliva, Edson Keyso Miranda Kubo, Steve McKenna, Julia Richardson and Terry Wales

Trust Issues and Engaged Buddhism: The Triggers for Skillful Managerial Approaches pp. 77-102

Mai Chi Vu and Trang Tran

Mindfulness, Moral Reasoning and Responsibility: Towards Virtue in Ethical Decision-Making pp. 103-117

Cherise Small and Charlene Lew

Ambivalent Identification as a Moderator of the Link Between Organizational Identification and Counterproductive Work Behaviors pp. 119-134

Valeria Ciampa, Moritz Sirowatka, Sebastian C. Schuh, Franco Fraccaroli and Rolf Dick

Care-ful Work: An Ethics of Care Approach to Contingent Labour in the Creative Industries pp. 135-151

Ana Alacovska and Joëlle Bissonnette

Emotions and Ethical Decision Making at Work: Organizational Norms, Emotional Dogs, and the Rational Tales They Tell Themselves and Others pp. 153-168

Joseph McManus

Stakes Sensitivity and Credit Rating: A New Challenge for Regulators pp. 169-179

Anthony Booth and Boudewijn Bruin

The Business of Virtue: Evidence from Socially Responsible Investing in Financial Markets pp. 181-199

Saheli Nath

Volume 168, issue 4, 2021

Does Supervisor’s Moral Courage to Go Beyond Compliance Have a Role in the Relationships Between Teamwork Quality, Team Creativity, and Team Idea Implementation? pp. 677-696

Carlos Ferreira Peralta, Maria Francisca Saldanha, Paulo Nuno Lopes, Paulo Renato Lourenço and Leonor Pais

Labour Force Participation and Employment of Humanitarian Migrants: Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Data pp. 697-720

Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang and Lucy Taksa

I See Me: The Role of Observer Imagery in Reducing Consumer Transgressions pp. 721-732

Ruby Saine, Alexander J. Kull, Ali Besharat and Sajeev Varki

Transparency and Control in Email Communication: The More the Supervisor is Put in cc the Less Trust is Felt pp. 733-753

Tessa Haesevoets, David De Cremer, Leander De Schutter, Jack McGuire, Yu Yang, Xie Jian and Alain Van Hiel

Insubordination: Validation of a Measure and an Examination of Insubordinate Responses to Unethical Supervisory Treatment pp. 755-775

Jeremy D. Mackey, Charn P. McAllister and Katherine C. Alexander

Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior and Positive Leader–Employee Relationships pp. 777-793

Will Bryant and Stephanie M. Merritt

Surviving a Crisis: How Crisis Type and Psychological Distance Can Inform Corporate Crisis Responses pp. 795-811

So Young Lee, Yoon Hi Sung, Dongwon Choi and Dong Hoo Kim

Employee Entitlement, Engagement, and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Ethical Leadership pp. 813-826

Toby Joplin, Rebecca L. Greenbaum, J. Craig Wallace and Bryan D. Edwards

The Glass Pyramid: Informal Gender Status Hierarchy on Boards pp. 827-845

Lívia Markóczy, Sunny Li Sun and Jigao Zhu

Tacticality, Authenticity, or Both? The Ethical Paradox of Actor Ingratiation and Target Trust Reactions pp. 847-860

David M. Long

How Bad Apples Promote Bad Barrels: Unethical Leader Behavior and the Selective Attrition Effect pp. 861-880

Robert Cialdini, Yexin Jessica Li, Adriana Samper and Ned Wellman

Volume 168, issue 3, 2021

Strategies for Social and Environmental Disclosure: The Case of Multinational Gambling Companies pp. 447-467

Tiffany Cheng-Han Leung and Robin Stanley Snell

Can You Drink Money? Integrating Organizational Perspective-Taking and Organizational Resilience in a Multi-level Systems Framework for Sustainability Leadership pp. 469-490

Gerson Francis Tuazon, Rachel Wolfgramm and Kyle Powys Whyte

A Dynamic Review of the Emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility Communication pp. 491-515

Nataša Verk, Urša Golob and Klement Podnar

Tensions and Struggles in Tackling Bribery at the Firm Level: Perspectives from Buddhist-Enacted Organizational Leaders pp. 517-537

Mai Chi Vu

Drivers and Inhibitors of Internet Privacy Concern: A Multidimensional Development Theory Perspective pp. 539-564

Weiyin Hong, Frank K. Y. Chan and James Y. L. Thong

The General Data Protection Regulation in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism pp. 565-578

Jane Andrew and Max Baker

Compliance Dynamism: Capturing the Polynormative and Situational Nature of Business Responses to Law pp. 579-591

Yunmei Wu and Benjamin Rooij

Social Capital and Managers’ Use of Corporate Resources pp. 593-613

Ziqi Gao, Leye Li and Louise Yi Lu

Inching to Impact: The Demand Side of Social Impact Investing pp. 615-629

Susan D. Phillips and Bernadette Johnson

Hybrid Harvesting Strategies to Overcome Resource Constraints: Evidence from Social Enterprises in Kenya pp. 631-650

Giacomo Ciambotti and Matteo Pedrini

Managing Tensions and Divergent Institutional Logics in Firm–NPO Partnerships pp. 651-670

Alireza Ahmadsimab and Imran Chowdhury

Review of Business, Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains by Stefano Ponte pp. 671-673

Shikha Dagar

Correction to: Can a Good Person be a Good Trader? An Ethical Defense of Financial Trading pp. 675-675

Marta Rocchi and David Thunder

Volume 168, issue 2, 2021

Consumption Ethics: A Review and Analysis of Future Directions for Interdisciplinary Research pp. 215-238

Michal Carrington, Andreas Chatzidakis, Helen Goworek and Deirdre Shaw

Correction to: Consumption Ethics: A Review and Analysis of Future Directions for Interdisciplinary Research pp. 239-239

Michal Carrington, Andreas Chatzidakis, Helen Goworek and Deirdre Shaw

Institutions and Agency in the Sustainability of Day-to-Day Consumption Practices: An Institutional Ethnographic Study pp. 241-260

Tiia-Lotta Pekkanen

Catering to Otherness: Levinasian Consumer Ethics at Restaurant Day pp. 261-276

Joel Hietanen and Antti Sihvonen

Religion and Everyday Consumption Ethics: A Moral Economy Approach pp. 277-293

Ozlem Sandikci

The Consumers’ Emotional Dog Learns to Persuade Its Rational Tail: Toward a Social Intuitionist Framework of Ethical Consumption pp. 295-313

Lamberto Zollo

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Scores and Financial Performance of Multilatinas: Moderating Effects of Geographic International Diversification and Financial Slack pp. 315-334

Eduardo Duque-Grisales and Javier Aguilera-Caracuel

Political Corruption and Firm Value in the U.S.: Do Rents and Monitoring Matter? pp. 335-351

Nerissa C. Brown, Jared D. Smith, Roger White and Chad J. Zutter

The Ethical Dimension in Political Market Orientation: A Framework for Evaluating the Impact of India’s Look East Policy on Regional Income Convergence pp. 353-372

Homagni Choudhury, Zoltan Laszlo Kopacsi, Gunjan Saxena and Nishikant Mishra

Accounting Ethics and the Fragmentation of Value pp. 373-387

Céline Baud, Marion Brivot and Darlene Himick

Does an Asset Owner’s Institutional Setting Influence Its Decision to Sign the Principles for Responsible Investment? pp. 389-414

Andreas G. F. Hoepner, Arleta A. A. Majoch and Xiao Y. Zhou

Challenges to Professional Independence in a Relational Society: Accountants in China pp. 415-429

Gina Xu and Steven Dellaportas

Does Ownership Matter? Firm Ownership and Corporate Illegality in China pp. 431-445

Yongqiang Gao and Haibin Yang

Volume 168, issue 1, 2021

The Symbolic Imagination: Plato and Contemporary Business Ethics pp. 5-21

Paul T. Harper

Sorge, Heideggerian Ethic of Care: Creating More Caring Organizations pp. 23-35

Margie J. Elley-Brown and Judith K. Pringle

The Effects of Pornography on Unethical Behavior in Business pp. 37-54

Nathan W. Mecham, Melissa F. Lewis-Western and David A. Wood

Ethics, Markets, and the Legalization of Insider Trading pp. 55-70

Bruce W. Klaw and Don Mayer

An Updated Inquiry into the Study of Corporate Codes of Ethics: 2005–2016 pp. 71-108

Maira Babri, Bruce Davidson and Sven Helin

Quantitative Research on Leadership and Business Ethics: Examining the State of the Field and an Agenda for Future Research pp. 109-119

Michael Palanski, Alexander Newman, Hannes Leroy, Celia Moore, Sean Hannah and Deanne Den Hartog

Big Business and Fascism: A Dangerous Collusion pp. 121-135

Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil

The Effects of Spirituality and Moral Intensity on Ethical Business Decisions: A Cross-Sectional Study pp. 137-149

Stephen E. Anderson and Jodine M. Burchell

The Divine States (brahmaviharas) in Managerial Ethical Decision-Making in Organisations in Sri Lanka: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis pp. 151-171

Thushini S. Jayawardena-Willis, Edwina Pio and Peter McGhee

Exploring Student Perceptions of the Hidden Curriculum in Responsible Management Education pp. 173-193

Catharina Høgdal, Andreas Rasche, Dennis Schoeneborn and Levinia Scotti

When Employees Retaliate Against Self-Serving Leaders: The Influence of the Ethical Climate pp. 195-213

Stijn Decoster, Jeroen Stouten and Thomas M. Tripp