Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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

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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 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

Volume 189, issue 4, 2024

Strengthening Our Cities: Exploring the Intersection of Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion, and Social Innovation in Revitalizing Urban Environments pp. 647-653

Michael L. Barnett, Brett Anitra Gilbert, Corinne Post and Jeffrey A. Robinson

Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders pp. 655-675

Francesca Capo, Antonino Vaccaro and Pascual Berrone

Fostering Urban Inclusive Green Growth: Does Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Matter? pp. 677-698

Haitao Wu, Shiyue Luo, Suixin Li, Yan Xue and Yu Hao

Ethics of Care Leadership, Racial Inclusion, and Economic Health in the Cities: Is There a Female Leadership Advantage? pp. 699-721

Kayla Stajkovic and Alexander D. Stajkovic

How Gender Diversity Shapes Cities: Evidence from Risk Management Decisions in REITs pp. 723-741

Avis Devine, Isabelle Jolin, Nils Kok and Erkan Yönder

Does Confucianism Prompt Firms to Participate in Poverty Alleviation Campaigns? pp. 743-762

Min Huang, Xiaobo Li, Jun Xia and Mengyao Li

Narrative Business Ethics Versus Narratives Within Business Ethics: Problems and Possibilities From an Aristotelian Virtue Ethics Perspective pp. 763-779

Daryl Koehn

Narrating a Prototypical Disabled Employee pp. 781-796

Mukta Kulkarni

Twitter-Based Social Accountability Callouts pp. 797-815

Dean Neu and Gregory D. Saxton

Accounting for Failure Through Morality: The IMF’s Involvement in (Mis)managing the Greek Crisis pp. 817-841

Stephanos Avakian and Marianna Fotaki

When Are We More Ethical? A Review and Categorization of the Factors Influencing Dual-Process Ethical Decision-Making pp. 843-882

Clark H. Warner, Marion Fortin and Tessa Melkonian

Volume 189, issue 3, 2024

Value Judgements, Positivism and Utility Comparisons in Economics pp. 423-437

Stavros Drakopoulos

Harming by Deceit: Epistemic Malevolence and Organizational Wrongdoing pp. 439-452

Marco Meyer and Chun Wei Choo

Practicing Dialogue: How an Organization can Facilitate Diverse Collaborative Action pp. 453-478

Kathryn L. Heinze and Sara B. Soderstrom

The Ethics of Freedom in Consumption: An Ethnographic Account of the Social Dimensions of Supermarket Shopping for Moroccan Women pp. 479-506

Delphine Godefroit-Winkel and Lisa Peñaloza

The Consequences of Financial Leverage: Certified B Corporations’ Advantages Compared to Common Commercial Firms pp. 507-523

Ine Paeleman, Nadja Guenster, Tom Vanacker and Ana Cristina O. Siqueira

Did Corporate Social Responsibility Vaccinate Corporations Against COVID-19? pp. 525-551

Ehsan Poursoleyman, Gholamreza Mansourfar, M. Kabir Hassan and Saeid Homayoun

Do Wealth Managers Understand Codes of Conduct and Their Ethical Dilemmas? Lessons from an Online Survey pp. 553-572

Ewa Lombard and Rajna N. GibsonBrandon

Ethical Climates Across National Contexts: A Meta-Analytical Investigation pp. 573-590

K. Praveen Parboteeah, Matthias Weiss and Martin Hoegl

Market Participation, Self-respect, and Risk Tolerance pp. 591-602

Carlo Ludovico Cordasco and Nick Cowen

Preventive and Remedial Actions in Corporate Reporting Among “Addiction Industries”: Legitimacy, Effectiveness and Hypocrisy Perception pp. 603-623

Diletta Acuti, Marco Bellucci and Giacomo Manetti

Employees Adhere More to Unethical Instructions from Human Than AI Supervisors: Complementing Experimental Evidence with Machine Learning pp. 625-646

Lukas Lanz, Roman Briker and Fabiola H. Gerpott

Volume 189, issue 2, 2024

Aesthetic Injustice pp. 217-229

Bjørn Hofmann

The Case for Parentalism at Work: Balancing Feminist Care Ethics and Justice Ethics through a Winnicottian approach: A School Case Study pp. 231-247

Michaela Edwards, Caroline Gatrell and Adrian Sutton

Addressing the Societal Challenges in Organizations: The Conceptualization of Mindfulness Capability for Social Justice pp. 249-268

Yanina Rashkova, Ludovica Moi and Francesca Cabiddu

Formal Ethics, Content Ethics and Relational Ethics: Three Approaches to Constructing Ethical Sales Cultures and Identities in Retail Banking pp. 269-286

Marita Susanna Svane and Sanne Frandsen

Recovering Aristotle’s Practice-Based Ontology: Practical Wisdom as Embodied Ethical Intuition pp. 287-300

Sylvia D’souza and Lucas D. Introna

Mapping Spiritual Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Synthesis of Past Milestones and Future Research Agenda pp. 301-328

Sai Bhargavi Vedula and Rakesh Kumar Agrawal

Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip pp. 329-344

Maria Kakarika, Shiva Taghavi and Helena V. González-Gómez

Approach versus Avoidance: A Self-Regulatory Perspective on Hypocrisy Induction in Anti-Cyberbullying CSR Campaigns pp. 345-364

Yuhosua Ryoo and WooJin Kim

How to Neutralize Primary Psychopathic Leaders’ Damaging Impact: Rules, Sanctions, and Transparency pp. 365-383

L. Maxim Laurijssen, Barbara Wisse, Stacey Sanders and Ed Sleebos

How Multi-Source Gossip Affects Targets’ Emotions and Strategic Behavioral Responses pp. 385-402

Boqiang Zong, Elena Martinescu, Bianca Beersma, Shiyong Xu and Lihua Zhang

When Leaders Acknowledge Their Own Errors, Will Employees Follow Suit? A Social Learning Perspective pp. 403-421

Kaili Zhang, Bin Zhao and Kui Yin

Volume 189, issue 1, 2024

Code Red for Humanity: The Role of Business Ethics as We Transgress Planetary Thresholds pp. 1-7

Heidi Rapp Nilsen

The Importance of Corporate Reputation for Sustainable Supply Chains: A Systematic Literature Review, Bibliometric Mapping, and Research Agenda pp. 9-34

David Berlepsch, Fred Lemke and Matthew Gorton

Uncovering Economic Complicity: Explaining State-Led Human Rights Abuses in the Corporate Context pp. 35-54

Tricia D. Olsen and Laura Bernal-Bermúdez

Corporate Responses to Community Grievance: Voluntarism and Pathologies of Practice pp. 55-68

John R. Owen and Deanna Kemp

Governance and Power Across Intersecting Value Chains: The Case of South African Apples pp. 69-86

Margareet Visser and Matthew Alford

Who Helps Who? The Role of Stigma Dimensions in Harassment Intervention pp. 87-109

Sonia Ghumman, Ann Marie Ryan and Jin Suk Park

Relaxed Financial Constraints and Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 111-131

Najah Attig

Why and When can CSR toward Employees Lead to Cyberloafing? The Role of Workplace Boredom and Moral Disengagement pp. 133-148

Marc Ohana, Ghulam Murtaza, Inam ul Haq, Esraa Al-Shatti and Zhang Chi

Perceptions of Ethicality: The Role of Attire Style, Attire Appropriateness, and Context pp. 149-175

Kristin Lee Sotak, Andra Serban, Barry A. Friedman and Michael Palanski

Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Corporate Environmental Engagement pp. 177-199

Dongmin Kong, Jia Liu, Yanan Wang and Ling Zhu

Spoof, Bluff, Go For It: A Defence of Spoofing pp. 201-215

Kasim Khorasanee