Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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Volume 125, issue 4, 2014

Social and Environmental Performance at SMEs: Considering Motivations, Capabilities, and Instrumentalism pp. 541-561

Richard Arend

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Organizational Commitment: Exploring Multiple Mediation Mechanisms pp. 563-580

Omer Farooq, Marielle Payaud, Dwight Merunka and Pierre Valette-Florence

Exploring Political Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains pp. 581-599

Julia Rotter, Peppi-Emilia Airike and Cecilia Mark-Herbert

Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from the US Banking Sector pp. 601-615

Mohammad Jizi, Aly Salama, Robert Dixon and Rebecca Stratling

Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Equity Prices pp. 617-635

Li Cai and Chaohua He

Does the Voluntary Adoption of Corporate Governance Mechanisms Improve Environmental Risk Disclosures? Evidence from Greenhouse Gas Emission Accounting pp. 637-666

Gary Peters and Andrea Romi

Core Values and Beliefs: A Study of Leading Innovative Organizations pp. 667-680

S. Sai Manohar and Shiv Pandit

Initiating Disclosure of Environmental Liability Information: An Empirical Analysis of Firm Choice pp. 681-692

Jennifer Chen, Charles Cho and Dennis Patten

Perceived Greenwashing: The Interactive Effects of Green Advertising and Corporate Environmental Performance on Consumer Reactions pp. 693-707

Gergely Nyilasy, Harsha Gangadharbatla and Angela Paladino

Toward A Positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship. On Maximizing Versus Satisficing Value Capture pp. 709-713

Alejandro Agafonow

Volume 125, issue 3, 2014

Vive la Différence: Social Banks and Reciprocity in the Credit Market pp. 361-380

Simon Cornee and Ariane Szafarz

Perceived Reasonableness and Morals in Service Encounters pp. 381-400

Nobuyuki Fukawa and Sunil Erevelles

Painting with the Same Brush? Surveying Unethical Behavior in the Workplace Using Self-Reports and Observer-Reports pp. 401-432

Franziska Zuber and Muel Kaptein

How Does the Stock Market Value Corporate Social Performance? When Behavioral Theories Interact with Stakeholder Theory pp. 433-465

Ming Jia and Zhe Zhang

Civil Regulation, the Environment and the Compliance Orientations of SMEs pp. 467-480

Gary Lynch-Wood and David Williamson

The Legitimacy of CSR Actions of Publicly Traded Companies Versus Family-Owned Companies pp. 481-496

Rajat Panwar, Karen Paul, Erlend Nybakk, Eric Hansen and Derek Thompson

Board Age and Gender Diversity: A Test of Competing Linear and Curvilinear Predictions pp. 497-512

Muhammad Ali, Yin Ng and Carol Kulik

Teaching Business Ethics Online: Perspectives on Course Design, Delivery, Student Engagement, and Assessment pp. 513-529

Denis Collins, James Weber and Rebecca Zambrano

Do Property Rights Presuppose Scarcity? pp. 531-537

David Faraci

Erratum to: Do Property Rights Presuppose Scarcity? pp. 539-539

David Faraci

Volume 125, issue 2, 2014

The Paradox of Corporate Social Responsibility Standards pp. 177-191

Simone de Colle, Adrian Henriques and Saras Sarasvathy

Social Shareholder Engagement: The Dynamics of Voice and Exit pp. 193-210

Jennifer Goodman, Céline Louche, Katinka Cranenburgh and Daniel Arenas

The Heterogeneous Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities That Target Different Stakeholders pp. 211-234

Kiyoung Chang, Incheol Kim and Ying Li

Conceptualising Meaningful Work as a Fundamental Human Need pp. 235-251

Ruth Yeoman

Building Trust Between Consumers and Corporations: The Role of Consumer Perceptions of Transparency and Social Responsibility pp. 253-265

Jiyun Kang and Gwendolyn Hustvedt

Situational Moral Disengagement: Can the Effects of Self-Interest be Mitigated? pp. 267-285

Jennifer Kish-Gephart, James Detert, Linda Treviño, Vicki Baker and Sean Martin

Modeling Job Pursuit Intention: Moderating Mechanisms of Socio-Environmental Consciousness pp. 287-298

Yuan-Hui Tsai, Sheng-Wuu Joe, Chieh-Peng Lin and Rong-Tsu Wang

Does Religion Mitigate Tunneling? Evidence from Chinese Buddhism pp. 299-327

Xingqiang Du

Money is Power: Monetary Intelligence—Love of Money and Temptation of Materialism Among Czech University Students pp. 329-348

Soňa Lemrová, Eva Reiterová, Renáta Fatěnová, Karel Lemr and Thomas Tang

Reconciling Different Views on Responsible Leadership: A Rationality-Based Approach pp. 349-360

Christof Miska, Christian Hilbe and Susanne Mayer

Volume 125, issue 1, 2014

A Conceptual Framework for Constructing a Corruption Diffusion Index pp. 1-9

Tomson Ogwang and Danny Cho

Knowledge and the Climate Change Issue: An Exploratory Study of Cluster and Extra-Cluster Effects pp. 11-25

Jeremy Galbreath, David Charles and Des Klass

Is the Red Dragon Green? An Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Environmental Proactivity in China pp. 27-43

Kent Walker, Na Ni and Weidong Huo

Teaching Business Ethics Through Strategically Integrated Micro-Insertions pp. 45-58

Alesia Slocum, Sylvia Rohlfer and Cesar Gonzalez-Canton

Corporate Governance Quality and CSR Disclosures pp. 59-73

MuiChing Chan, John Watson and David Woodliff

How CSR Leads to Corporate Brand Equity: Mediating Mechanisms of Corporate Brand Credibility and Reputation pp. 75-86

Won-Moo Hur, Hanna Kim and Jeong Woo

Bags for Life: The Embedding of Ethical Consumerism pp. 87-99

Pamela Yeow, Alison Dean and Danielle Tucker

Ethics Trumps Culture? A Cross-National Study of Business Leader Responsibility for Downsizing and CSR Perceptions pp. 101-119

C. Lakshman, Aarti Ramaswami, Ruth Alas, Jean Kabongo and J. Rajendran Pandian

Managing CSR Stakeholder Engagement: A New Conceptual Framework pp. 121-145

Linda O’Riordan and Jenny Fairbrass

The Harmonization and Convergence of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Standards pp. 147-162

Daniel Tschopp and Michael Nastanski

Money, Emotions, and Ethics Across Individuals and Countries pp. 163-176

Long Wang and John Murnighan

Volume 124, issue 4, 2014

Online Music Consumption in Today’s Technological Context: Putting the Influence of Ethics in Perspective pp. 537-550

Bert Weijters, Frank Goedertier and Sofie Verstreken

Environmental Mutual Funds: Financial Performance and Managerial Abilities pp. 551-569

Fernando Muñoz, Maria Vargas and Isabel Marco

Nanotechnologies and Green Knowledge Creation: Paradox or Enhancer of Sustainable Solutions? pp. 571-583

Caroline Gauthier and Corine Genet

Mapping Research Topics and Theories in Private Regulation for Sustainability in Global Value Chains pp. 585-608

Antje Wahl and Gary Bull

In Lieu of a Sovereignty Shield, Multinational Corporations Should Be Responsible for the Harm They Cause pp. 609-621

Edmund Byrne

Islamic Corporate Governance: Risk-Sharing and Islamic Preferred Shares pp. 623-632

Mohammad Al-Suhaibani and Nader Naifar

Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Value: Disaggregating the Effects on Cash Flow, Risk and Growth pp. 633-657

Alan Gregory, Rajesh Tharyan and Julie Whittaker

An Exploratory Study of Chinese Motives for Building Supervisor–Subordinate Guanxi pp. 659-675

Long Zhang, Yulin Deng and Qun Wang

The Relationships of Empathy, Moral Identity and Cynicism with Consumers’ Ethical Beliefs: The Mediating Role of Moral Disengagement pp. 677-694

Rafi Chowdhury and Mario Fernando

Unpacking the Goal Congruence–Organizational Deviance Relationship: The Roles of Work Engagement and Emotional Intelligence pp. 695-711

Dirk De Clercq, Dave Bouckenooghe, Usman Raja and Ganna Matsyborska

Volume 124, issue 3, 2014

Alliances Between Corporate and Fair Trade Brands: Examining the Antecedents of Overall Evaluation of the Co-branded Product pp. 365-381

Sylvain Sénéchal, Laurent Georges and Jean Pernin

Corruption, South African Multinational Enterprises and Institutions in Africa pp. 383-398

John Luiz and Callum Stewart

Whistle-Blowing Systems and Legitimacy Theory: A Study of the Motivation to Implement Whistle-Blowing Systems in German Organizations pp. 399-412

Esther Pittroff

An Exploratory Study in Community Perspectives of Sustainability Leadership in the Murray Darling Basin pp. 413-433

Christine Harley, Louise Metcalf and Julia Irwin

One Justice or Two? A Model of Reconciliation of Normative Justice Theories and Empirical Research on Organizational Justice pp. 435-451

Natàlia Cugueró-Escofet and Marion Fortin

The Influence of Servant Leadership on Restaurant Employee Engagement pp. 453-464

Danon Carter and Timothy Baghurst

Influences on Student Intention and Behavior Toward Environmental Sustainability pp. 465-484

James Swaim, Michael Maloni, Stuart Napshin and Amy Henley

Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Polluting Industries: Does Religion Matter? pp. 485-507

Xingqiang Du, Wei Jian, Quan Zeng and Yingjie Du

Ethical Context and Ethical Decision Making: Examination of an Alternative Statistical Approach for Identifying Variable Relationships pp. 509-526

Sean Valentine, Seong-Hyun Nam, David Hollingworth and Callie Hall

Moral Identity as Leverage Point in Teaching Business Ethics pp. 527-536

Jun Gu and Cristina Neesham

Volume 124, issue 2, 2014

Do Perceptions of Ethical Conduct Matter During Organizational Change? Ethical Leadership and Employee Involvement pp. 185-196

Monica Sharif and Terri Scandura

Toward a Social Ontology of the Firm: Reconstitution, Organizing Entity, Institution, Social Emergence and Power pp. 197-208

Virgile Chassagnon

The Effects of Ethical Leadership and Ethical Climate on Employee Ethical Behavior in the International Port Context pp. 209-223

Chin-Shan Lu and Chi-Chang Lin

What Does Ethics Have to do with Leadership? pp. 225-242

Michael Levine and Jacqueline Boaks

How Does Perceived Effectiveness Affect Adults’ Ethical Acceptance of Anti-obesity Threat Appeals to Children? When the Going Gets Tough, the Audience Gets Going pp. 243-257

Karine Charry, Patrick Pelsmacker and Claude Pecheux

“Moral Distance” in Organizations: An Inquiry into Ethical Violence in the Works of Kafka pp. 259-269

Christian Huber and Iain Munro

Do You Need a Receipt? Exploring Consumer Participation in Consumption Tax Evasion as an Ethical Dilemma pp. 271-282

Barbara Culiberg and Domen Bajde

The Mediated Influence of a Traceability Label on Consumer’s Willingness to Buy the Labelled Product pp. 283-295

Cosmina Bradu, Jacob Orquin and John Thøgersen

Does Sustainability Investment Provide Adaptive Resilience to Ethical Investors? Evidence from Spain pp. 297-309

Eduardo Ortas, Jose Moneva, Roger Burritt and Joanne Tingey-Holyoak

The Role of CEO’s Personal Incentives in Driving Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 311-326

Michele Fabrizi, Christine Mallin and Giovanna Michelon

Exploring the Ethical Dimension of Hawala pp. 327-337

Dulce Redín, Reyes Calderón and Ignacio Ferrero

The Impact of Caring Climate, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment on Job Performance of Employees in a China’s Insurance Company pp. 339-349

Weihui Fu and Satish Deshpande

In Defence of ‘Demand’ Deposits: Contractual Solutions to the Barnett and Block, and Bagus and Howden Debate pp. 351-364

Anthony Evans

Volume 124, issue 1, 2014

Does it Pay to Be Ethical? Examining the Relationship Between Organisations’ Ethical Culture and Innovativeness pp. 1-17

Elina Riivari and Anna-Maija Lämsä

Is the Optimism in CEO’s Letters to Shareholders Sincere? Impression Management Versus Communicative Action During the Economic Crisis pp. 19-34

Lorenzo Patelli and Matteo Pedrini

Behavioral Factors Affecting Students’ Intentions to Enroll in Business Ethics Courses: A Comparison of the Theory of Planned Behavior and Social Cognitive Theory Using Self-Identity as a Moderator pp. 35-46

Pi-Yueh Cheng and Mei-Chin Chu

Exploring the Role of CSR in the Organizational Identity of Hospitality Companies: A Case from the Spanish Tourism Industry pp. 47-66

Patricia Martínez, Andrea Pérez and Ignacio Rodríguez del Bosque

The Influence of Business Ethics Education on Moral Efficacy, Moral Meaningfulness, and Moral Courage: A Quasi-experimental Study pp. 67-80

Douglas May, Matthew Luth and Catherine Schwoerer

A Rose by Any Other Name: Are Family Firms Named After Their Founding Families Rewarded More for Their New Product Introductions? pp. 81-99

Saim Kashmiri and Vijay Mahajan

Consumers’ Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility: Scale Development and Validation pp. 101-115

Magdalena Öberseder, Bodo Schlegelmilch, Patrick Murphy and Verena Gruber

Feelings that Make a Difference: How Guilt and Pride Convince Consumers of the Effectiveness of Sustainable Consumption Choices pp. 117-134

Paolo Antonetti and Stan Maklan

Environmental Motivations: The Pathway to Complete Environmental Management pp. 135-147

Gustavo Lannelongue, Oscar Gonzalez-Benito and Javier Gonzalez-Benito

Is Publicity Always Better than Advertising? The Role of Brand Reputation in Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 149-160

Siv Skard and Helge Thorbjørnsen

The Corporate Ethical Virtues Scale: Factorial Invariance Across Organizational Samples pp. 161-171

Maiju Kangas, Taru Feldt, Mari Huhtala and Johanna Rantanen

The Curious Case of Corporate Tax Avoidance: Is it Socially Irresponsible? pp. 173-184

Grahame Dowling