Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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

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Volume 191, issue 4, 2024

Ethical Consumerism in Emerging Markets: Opportunities and Challenges pp. 651-673

Smirti Kutaula, Alvina Gillani, Diana Gregory-Smith and Boris Bartikowski

Ethical Pursuit or Personal Nirvana? Unpacking the Practice of Danshari in China pp. 675-695

Charis X. Li, Xiao-xiao Liu, Jun Ye, Siyu Zheng and Songyin Cai

Role of Socio-Cultural Capital and Country-Level Affluence in Ethical Consumerism pp. 697-711

Verma Prikshat, Parth Patel, Sanjeev Kumar, Suraksha Gupta and Ashish Malik

How Sustainable Luxury Influences Product Value Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions: A Comparative Study of Emerging vs. Developed Markets pp. 713-738

Victoria-Sophie Osburg, Vignesh Yoganathan, Fabian Bartsch, Mbaye Fall Diallo and Hongfei Liu

Marketing to Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Consumers in an Emerging Market: The Responses of Mainstream Consumers pp. 739-755

Reetika Gupta, Deepa Chandrasekaran, Sankar Sen and Tanvi Gupta

Are We Becoming More Ethical Consumers During the Global Pandemic? The Moderating Role of Negotiable Fate Across Cultures pp. 757-776

Junjun Cheng, Yimin Huang and Bo Chen

Bringing Ethical Consumption to the Forefront in Emerging Markets: The Role of Product Categorization pp. 777-792

Ali Besharat, Gia Nardini and Rhiannon MacDonnell Mesler

Ethical Consumers and Low-Income Sellers on China’s Reward-Based Crowdfunding Platforms: Are Poverty Alleviation Campaigns More Successful? pp. 793-810

Chao Xing, Yuming Zhang and David Tripe

To Buy or Not to Buy? Exploring Ethical Consumerism in an Emerging Market—India pp. 811-835

Sunanda Nayak, Vijay Pereira, Bahar Ali Kazmi and Pawan Budhwar

Energizing Ethical Recycling Intention Through Information Publicity: Insights from an Emerging Market Economy pp. 837-863

Khalid Mehmood, Yaser Iftikhar, Fauzia Jabeen, Ali Nawaz Khan and Hina Rehman

Mediating Role of Cultural Values in the Impact of Ethical Ideologies on Chinese Consumers’ Ethical Judgments pp. 865-884

Ricky Y. K. Chan, Piyush Sharma, Abdulaziz Alqahtani, Tak Yan Leung and Ashish Malik

Volume 191, issue 3, 2024

Economic Policy Uncertainty and Climate Change: Evidence from CO2 Emission pp. 415-441

Mohammed Benlemlih and Çiğdem Vural Yavaş

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Always Result in More Ethical Decision-Making? Evidence from Product Recall Remediation pp. 443-463

Alfred Z. Liu, Angela Xia Liu, Sangkil Moon and Donald Siegel

Is Rationality Reasonable? How Ancient Logos Changes Management Theory pp. 465-479

Matthias P. Hühn and Sara Mandray

Does Collective Decision-Making Promote SOEs' Green Innovation? Evidence from China pp. 481-500

Bo Cheng, Zixin Li, Baoyin Qiu and Ting Xiong

How Do Auditors Value Hypocrisy? Evidence from China pp. 501-533

Xingqiang Du, Yiqi Zhang, Shaojuan Lai and Hexin Tao

An Experimental Study of a Change in Professional Accountants’ Code of Ethics: The Influence of NOCLAR on the Duty to Report Illegal Acts to an External Authority pp. 535-549

Linda Thorne, Krista Fiolleau, Carolyn MacTavish, Pier-Luc Nappert and Sameera Khatoon

Earnings Management, Auditor Changes and Ethics: Evidence from Companies Missing Earnings Expectations pp. 551-570

Eric Lohwasser and Yaou Zhou

Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment pp. 571-589

Vu Nam, Tram-Anh Nguyen, Tram Bao Hoang and Cuong Nguyen

A New Understanding of the Role of Self-oriented Motivations in the Creation of Social Enterprises pp. 591-609

Alice Mascena Barbosa and Guillaume Dumont

Social Entrepreneurship as a Family Resemblance Concept with Distinct Ethical Views pp. 611-632

Filipa Lancastre, Carmen Lages and Filipe Santos

It’s a Family Affair: A Case for Consistency in Family Foundation Giving and Family Firm Community CSR Activity pp. 633-649

Cristina Cruz, Hana Milanov and Judit Klein

Volume 191, issue 2, 2024

The Ethics of Entrepreneurship: A Millian Approach pp. 217-229

Carlo Ludovico Cordasco

Revisiting the Received Image of Machiavelli in Business Ethics Through a Close Reading of The Prince and Discourses pp. 231-252

Moutusy Maity, Nandita Roy, Doyeeta Majumder and Prasanta Chakravarty

The Problem of Autonomy: An Alternative Notion of Excellence in Business Ethics pp. 253-267

Nisigandha Bhuyan and Arunima Chakraborty

Escaping the Scapegoat Trap: Using René Girard’s Framework for Workplace Bullying pp. 269-283

Guglielmo Faldetta and Deborah Gervasi

Transforming Relationships and Empowering Communities: The Role of Care Ethics in Solving Grand Challenges pp. 285-303

Grace H. Fan and Zoe A. Cunliffe

Expressing Dual Concern in Criticism for Wrongdoing: The Persuasive Power of Criticizing with Care pp. 305-322

Lauren C. Howe, Steven Shepherd, Nathan B. Warren, Kathryn R. Mercurio and Troy H. Campbell

Relational HR Practices in Malaysian SMEs: An Ethics of Care Perspective pp. 323-336

Wee Chan Au, Siân Stephens and Pervaiz K. Ahmed

A Contribution to Sustainable Human Resource Development in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 337-355

Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Sakshi Malik, Olatunji A. Shobande, Sanjeet Singh and Vishal Dagar

Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers pp. 357-372

Baoguo Xie, Xinrou Zhang, Xueyuan Gao and Xiaoxue Zhou

How do Sector Level Factors Influence Trust Violations in Not-for-Profit Organizations? A Multilevel Model pp. 373-398

Nicole Gillespie, Mattia Anesa, Morgana Lizzio-Wilson, Cassandra Chapman, Karen Healy and Matthew Hornsey

Are Bad Leaders Indeed Bad for Employees? A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies Between Destructive Leadership and Employee Outcomes pp. 399-413

Peikai Li, Kui Yin, Jian Shi, Tom G. E. Damen and Toon W. Taris

Volume 191, issue 1, 2024

Engaging Stakeholders During Intergovernmental Conflict: How Political Attributions Shape Stakeholder Engagement pp. 1-27

Susana C. Esper, Luciano Barin-Cruz and Jean-Pascal Gond

Forgetting Corporate Irresponsibility: The Role of Corporate Political Activities and Stakeholder Characteristics pp. 29-57

Nilufer Yapici and Ratan J. S. Dheer

Institutional Logics in the UK Construction Industry’s Response to Modern Slavery Risk: Complementarity and Conflict pp. 59-75

Christopher Pesterfield and Michael Rogerson

#StopHateForProfit and the Ethics of Boycotting by Corporations pp. 77-91

Theodore M. Lechterman, Ryan Jenkins and Bradley J. Strawser

Breaking Out of the Cocoon: Whistleblowing Opportunities Under Conditions of Normalized Wrongdoing pp. 93-105

Thomas Olesen

The Demise of a Rising Social Enterprise for Persons With Disabilities: The Ethics and the Uncertainty of Pure Effectual Logic When Scaling Up pp. 107-130

Bruce Martin, Lucia Walsh, Andrew Keating and Susi Geiger

Sexual Boundary Violations: Exploring How the Interplay Between Violations, Retributive, and Restorative Responses Affects Teams pp. 131-146

Eva Baarle, Steven Baarle, Guy Widdershoven, Roland Bal and Jan-Willem Weenink

Beyond the Inclusion–Exclusion Binary: Right Mindfulness and Its Implications for Perceived Inclusion and Exclusion in the Workplace pp. 147-165

Mai Chi Vu and Nicholas Burton

Integrating Moral Personhood and Moral Management: A Confucian Approach to Ethical Leadership pp. 167-177

Charlene Tan

Analysis and Intuition Effectiveness in Moral Problems pp. 179-193

Christian Julmi

“We are Neither Commies nor Volunteers”: How National Culture Influences Professional Identity Construction of CSR Professionals in South Korea pp. 195-213

Mai Chi Vu, Hyemi Shin and Nicholas Burton

Correction to: Common Knowledge of the Second Kind pp. 215-215

David Bella and Jonathan King

Volume 190, issue 4, 2024

When Is CEO Activism Conducive to the Democratic Process? pp. 755-774

Aurélien Feix and Georg Wernicke

The More the Merrier: How Psychological Standing and Work Group Size Explain Managers’ Willingness to Communicate About Unethical Conduct in Their Work Group pp. 775-786

Burak Oc and Maryam Kouchaki

Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation pp. 787-800

Wenyuan Huang and Chuqin Yuan

Layoffs in SMEs: The Role of Social Proximity pp. 801-820

Vivien Lefebvre

Impact of Peer Unethical Behaviors on Employee Silence: The Role of Organizational Identification and Emotions pp. 821-839

Aneka Fahima Sufi, Usman Raja and Arif Nazir Butt

When the Automated fire Backfires: The Adoption of Algorithm-based HR Decision-making Could Induce Consumer’s Unfavorable Ethicality Inferences of the Company pp. 841-859

Chenfeng Yan, Quan Chen, Xinyue Zhou, Xin Dai and Zhilin Yang

How Much Does Workplace Sexual Harassment Hurt Firm Value? pp. 861-883

Shiu-Yik Au, Ming Dong and Andréanne Tremblay

“Articulating Cognizance About What to Hide What not": Insights into Why and When Ethical Leadership Regulates Employee Knowledge-Hiding Behaviors pp. 885-895

Moazzam Ali, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Aamir Shafique Khan, Imran Shafique and Farooq Mughal

The Effects of CEO Awards on Corporate Social Responsibility Focus pp. 897-916

Juelin Yin, Jiangyan Li and Jun Ma

Correction to: The Effects of CEO Awards on Corporate Social Responsibility Focus pp. 917-917

Juelin Yin, Jiangyan Li and Jun Ma

The Impact of CEOs’ Personal Traits on Organisational Performance: Evidence from Faith-Based Charity Organisations pp. 919-939

Andrea Melis and Tasawar Nawaz

When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem pp. 941-973

Ali Besharat, Kimberly A. Whitler and Saim Kashmiri

Can We Trust the Trust Words in 10-Ks? pp. 975-992

Myojung Cho, Gopal V. Krishnan and Hyunkwon Cho

Volume 190, issue 3, 2024

To Whom Do Business Owner-Managers Feel Responsible? Weighting conflicting social responsibilities in Rwanda pp. 531-552

Bruno Noisette

Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers pp. 553-568

Tommaso Reggiani and Rainer Michael Rilke

Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities pp. 569-588

Saffet A. Uygur and Christopher J. Napier

A Symbolic Framing of Exploitative Firms: Evidence from Japan pp. 589-605

Jungwon Min

The Corporate Samaritan: Advancing Understanding of the Role of Deontic Motive in Justice Enactment pp. 607-623

Julia Zwank, Marjo-Riitta Diehl and Mario Gollwitzer

Achieving Double Bottom-Line Performance in Hybrid Organisations: A Machine-Learning Approach pp. 625-647

Eline Auwera, Bert D’Espallier and Roy Mersland

Talking Ethics Early in Health Data Public Private Partnerships pp. 649-659

Constantin Landers, Kelly E. Ormond, Alessandro Blasimme, Caroline Brall and Effy Vayena

Climate Change Social Norms and Corporate Cash Holdings pp. 661-683

Lei Zhang, Kiridaran Kanagaretnam and Jing Gao

Moral Agency Development as a Community-Supported Process: An Analysis of Hospitals’ Middle Management Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis pp. 685-699

Gry Espedal, Marta Struminska-Kutra, Danielle Wagenheim and Kari Jakobsen Husa

Correction to: Moral Agency Development as a Community-Supported Process: An Analysis of Hospitals’ Middle Management Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis pp. 701-701

Gry Espedal, Marta Struminska-Kutra, Danielle Wagenheim and Kari Jakobsen Husa

Social Integrity and Stock Price Crash Risk pp. 703-721

Yurou Liu and Jinyang Liu

Amoral Management and the Normalisation of Deviance: The Case of Stafford Hospital pp. 723-738

Tom Entwistle and Heike Doering

Volume 190, issue 2, 2024

Ethical Sensibilities for Practicing Care in Management and Organization Research pp. 279-294

Anne Antoni and Haley Beer

A Rawlsian Rule for Corporate Governance pp. 295-308

David Rönnegard and N. Craig Smith

The Impact of Social Norms of Responsibility on Corporate Social Responsibility Short Title: The Impact of Social Norms of Responsibility on Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 309-326

Leyuan You

Tension and Paradox in Women-Oriented Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: A Duality of Ethics pp. 327-346

Nitha Palakshappa, Sarah Dodds and Suzanne Grant

Civil Society Roles in CSR Legislation pp. 347-370

Guillaume Delalieux, Arno Kourula and Eric Pezet

Moral Self-Signaling Benefits of Effortful Cause Marketing Campaigns pp. 371-398

Argiro Kliamenakis and H. Onur Bodur

Shedding Light on the Adverse Spillover Effects of Work-Family Conflict on Unethical Sales Behaviors at Work: A Daily Diary Study pp. 399-411

Shaohui Lei

The Role of the Ugly = Bad Stereotype in the Rejection of Misshapen Produce pp. 413-437

Nathalie Spielmann, Pierrick Gomez and Elizabeth Minton

Do Individual Auditors from More Religious Hometowns Enhance Audit Quality? Evidence from an Islamic Country pp. 439-481

Murat Ocak, Bekir Emre Kurtulmuş and Emrah Arıoğlu

The Level of Islamic Religiosity of the Local Community and Corporate Environmental Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from Iran pp. 483-512

Mehdi Khodakarami, Hassan Yazdifar, Alireza Faraji Khaledi, Saeed Bagheri Kheirabadi and Amin Sarlak

How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance pp. 513-530

Diana Falsetta, Jennifer K. Schafer and George T. Tsakumis

Volume 190, issue 1, 2024

Is It Time to Reclaim the ‘Ethics’ in Business Ethics Education? pp. 1-22

Berina Jaganjac, Line M. Abrahamsen, Torunn S. Olsen and John A. Hunnes

The ethical challenges of teaching business ethics: ethical sensemaking through the Goffmanian lens pp. 23-40

Taran Patel, Rose Bote and Jovana Stanisljevic

Leading Without a Self: Implications of Buddhist Practices for Pseudo-spiritual Leadership pp. 41-57

Louis W. Fry and Mai Chi Vu

Employee Ethical Silence Under Exploitative Leadership: The Roles of Work Meaningfulness and Moral Potency pp. 59-76

Zhining Wang, Shuang Ren, Doren Chadee and Yuhang Chen

The Making of an Authentic Leader’s Internalized Moral Perspective: The Role of Internalized Ethical Philosophies in the Development of Authentic Leaders’ Moral Identity pp. 77-92

Seyyed Babak Alavi

The Moral Foundations of Vaccine Passports pp. 93-121

Trisha Harjani, Hongwei He and Melody Manchi Chao

Why the COVID-19 Crisis Is an Ethical Issue for Business: Evidence from the Australian JobKeeper Initiative pp. 123-136

Graciela Corral de Zubielqui and Howard Harris

How Do Tax Agents Respond to Anti-corruption Intensity? pp. 137-164

Chen Ma, Maoyong Cheng and Gerald J. Lobo

Women on Boards and Performance Trade-offs in Social Enterprises: Insights from Microfinance pp. 165-198

Moez Bennouri, Anastasia Cozarenco and Samuel Anokye Nyarko

Corporate Social Responsibility in Family Firms: Status and Future Directions of a Research Field pp. 199-259

Christoph Stock, Laura Pütz, Sabrina Schell and Arndt Werner

The Influence of CSR Orientation on Innovative Performance: Is the Effect Conditioned to the Implementation of Organizational Practices? pp. 261-278

Paula Anzola-Román, Teresa Garcia-Marco and Ferdaous Zouaghi