Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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Volume 186, issue 4, 2023

Coevolution of Strategy, Innovation and Ethics pp. 711-721

Liang Wang and Justin Tan

Innovator or Troublemaker? The Co-evolution of Ethical Controversies, Legitimation and Institutionalisation of the Ridesharing Firms in China pp. 723-737

Xiao-xiao Liu, Feng Xiong and Xingqiang Du

How Political Ties and Green Innovation Co-evolve in China: Alignment with Institutional Development and Environmental Pollution pp. 739-760

Wei Jiang, Kui Wang and Kevin Zheng Zhou

Industry Reputation Crisis and Firm Certification: A Co-evolution Perspective pp. 761-780

Yanying Chen, Liang Ping and Feng Helen Liang

MNEs’ Ambidexterity Strategies and Moral Conflicts: The Case of Google in China pp. 781-796

Shuxin Zhong, Xiaoyang Zhao and Juan Song

Attention-Based Constraint to MNC Coevolution in China's Changing Stakeholder Environment pp. 797-814

Meng Zhao, Xufei Ma, Seung Ho Park and Lingli Luo

How do Corporate Social Responsibility and Innovation Co-evolve with Organizational Forms? Evidence from a Transitional Economy pp. 815-829

Helen Wei Hu and Jiamin Zhang

Signaling Effects of CSR Performance on Cross-border Alliance Formation pp. 831-850

Ding Wang, Jiang Wei, Niels Noorderhaven and Yang Liu

Volume 186, issue 3, 2023

Harm Reduction, Solidarity, and Social Mobility as Target Functions: A Rortian Approach to Stakeholder Theory pp. 479-492

David Weitzner and Yuval Deutsch

I Am Not Just a Nurse: The Need for a Boundaried Ethic of Care in the Context of Prolific Relationality pp. 493-510

Wee Chan Au and Siân Stephens

Organizational Event Stigma: Typology, Processes, and Stickiness pp. 511-530

Kim Clark and Yuan Li

When the Presidential Candidate Comes to Town: The Impact of Donald J. Trump’s Campaign Rallies on Local Firms’ Environmental and Social Performance pp. 531-552

Feng Guo, Yonghong Liu, Mengmeng Wang and Yiyang Zhang

Misrepresentation of Marginalized Groups: A Critique of Epistemic Neocolonialism pp. 553-570

Rashedur Chowdhury

Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises pp. 571-592

Gorgi Krlev

Geographic Concentration of Institutional Blockholders and Workplace Safety Violations pp. 593-613

Xin Cheng, Orhun Guldiken and Wei Shi

Who are the Empowered Employees: Those with High Work Performance or High Ethical Behavior? pp. 615-631

Meizhen Lin, Xiaoyi Wu and Xiaolu Li

Informal Networks, Informal Institutions, and Social Exclusion in the Workplace: Insights from Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations in Korea pp. 633-655

Sven Horak and Yuliani Suseno

The Emotional Machiavellian: Interactions Between Leaders and Employees pp. 657-673

Nilupulee Liyanagamage, Mario Fernando and Belinda Gibbons

For the Love of the Game: Moral Ambivalence and Justification Work in Consuming Violence pp. 675-694

Clément Dubreuil, Delphine Dion and Stéphane Borraz

Spiritual Leadership and Employee CSR Participation: A Probe from a Sensemaking Perspective pp. 695-709

WenChi Zou, BaoWen Lin, Ling Su and Jeffery D. Houghton

Volume 186, issue 2, 2023

Don’t Just Trust Your Gut: The Importance of Normative Deliberation to Ethical Decision-Making at Work pp. 257-277

Oyku Arkan, Mahak Nagpal, Tobey K. Scharding and Danielle E. Warren

Handling Whistleblowing Reports: The Complexity of the Double Agent pp. 279-292

Nadia Smaili, Wim Vandekerckhove and Paulina Arroyo Pardo

Theorising the Fiduciary: Ontology and Ethics pp. 293-307

Helen J. Mussell

Nudge Me If You Can! Why Order Ethicists Should Embrace the Nudge Approach pp. 309-324

Nikil Mukerji and Adriano Mannino

The Effect of Ethical Commitment Reminder and Reciprocity in the Workplace on Misreporting pp. 325-345

Muhammad Irdam Ferdiansah, Vincent K. Chong, Isabel Z. Wang and David R. Woodliff

Leadership and Workplace Aggression: A Meta-analysis pp. 347-367

Wenrui Cao, Peikai Li, Reine van der Wal and Toon Taris

What (If Anything) is Wrong with High-Frequency Trading? pp. 369-383

Carl David Mildenberger

Paved with Good Intentions: Self-regulation Breakdown After Altruistic Ethical Transgression pp. 385-405

Hongyu Zhang, Xin Lucy Liu, Yahua Cai and Xiuli Sun

Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision pp. 407-424

Mingpeng Huang, Dong Ju, Kai Chi Yam, Shengming Liu, Xin Qin and Guangdi Tian

Authoritarian-Benevolent Leadership and Employee Behaviors: An Examination of the Role of LMX Ambivalence pp. 425-443

Lixin Chen and Qingxiong Weng

Linking Perceived Organizational Politics to Workplace Cyberbullying Perpetration: The Role of Anger and Fear pp. 445-463

Omer Farooq Malik and Shaun Pichler

Performance Pressure and Employee Expediency: The Role of Moral Decoupling pp. 465-478

Julie N. Y. Zhu, Long W. Lam, Yan Liu and Ning Jiang

Volume 186, issue 1, 2023

Methodological Decolonisation and Local Epistemologies in Business Ethics Research pp. 1-12

Obaa Akua Konadu-Osei, Smaranda Boroş and Anita Bosch

Ethical Decision-Making in Indigenous Financial Services: QSuper Case Study pp. 13-29

Clare J. M. Burns, Luke Houghton, Deborah Delaney and Cindy Shannon

Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives? pp. 31-62

Manon Eikelenboom and Thomas B. Long

Activating Corporate Environmental Ethics on the Frontline: A Natural Resource-Based View pp. 63-86

Colin B. Gabler, Omar Itani and Raj Agnihotri

Determinants of Supply Chain Engagement in Carbon Management pp. 87-104

Katrina Lintukangas, Heli Arminen, Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen and Elina Karttunen

Do Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Tax Avoidance? The Case of Drought pp. 105-135

Christofer Adrian, Mukesh Garg, Anh Viet Pham, Soon-Yeow Phang and Cameron Truong

Using Machine Learning to Predict Corporate Fraud: Evidence Based on the GONE Framework pp. 137-158

Xin Xu, Feng Xiong and Zhe An

My Company Cares About My Success…I Think: Clarifying Why and When a Firm’s Ethical Reputation Impacts Employees’ Subjective Career Success pp. 159-177

Darryl B. Rice, Regina M. Taylor, Yiding Wang, Sijing Wei and Valentina Ge

Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence pp. 179-197

Maria Figueroa-Armijos, Brent B. Clark and Serge P. da Motta Veiga

Seeming Ethical Makes You Attractive: Unraveling How Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring Impacts Organizational Innovativeness and Attractiveness pp. 199-216

Serge P. da Motta Veiga, Maria Figueroa-Armijos and Brent B. Clark

Three Paths to Feeling Just: How Managers Grapple with Justice Conundrums During Organizational Change pp. 217-236

Julia Zwank, Marjo-Riitta Diehl and Marion Fortin

Privacy Behaviour: A Model for Online Informed Consent pp. 237-255

Gary Burkhardt, Frederic Boy, Daniele Doneddu and Nick Hajli

Volume 185, issue 4, 2023

Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 713-723

Evgenia I. Lysova, Jennifer Tosti-Kharas, Christopher Michaelson, Luke Fletcher, Catherine Bailey and Peter McGhee

The Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Meaningful Work pp. 725-740

Sarah Bankins and Paul Formosa

Saving the World? How CSR Practitioners Live Their Calling by Constructing Different Types of Purpose in Three Occupational Stages pp. 741-766

Enrico Fontana, Sanne Frandsen and Mette Morsing

Disabled at Work: Body-Centric Cycles of Meaning-Making pp. 767-810

Anica Zeyen and Oana Branzei

The Normative Value of Making a Positive Contribution–Benefiting Others as a Core Dimension of Meaningful Work pp. 811-823

Frank Martela

Meaningful Work and the Purpose of the Firm pp. 825-834

David Silver

What Makes Work Meaningful? pp. 835-845

Samuel A. Mortimer

The Normative and Cultural Dimension of Work: Technological Unemployment as a Cultural Threat to a Meaningful Life pp. 847-864

Santiago Mejia

Volume 185, issue 3, 2023

Rebellion Under Exploitation: How and When Exploitative Leadership Evokes Employees’ Workplace Deviance pp. 483-498

Yijing Lyu, Long-Zeng Wu, Yijiao Ye, Ho Kwong Kwan and Yuanyi Chen

Existentialist Perspectives on the Problem and Prevention of Moral Disengagement pp. 499-511

Helet Botha and R. Edward Freeman

Microaggressions, Interrupted: The Experience and Effects of Gender Microaggressions for Women in STEM pp. 513-531

Jennifer Y. Kim and Alyson Meister

Work is Meaningful if There are Good Reasons to do it: A Revisionary Conceptual Analysis of ‘Meaningful Work’ pp. 533-544

Jens Jørund Tyssedal

The Roles of Cynicism, CFO Pressure, and Moral Disengagement on FIN 48 Earnings Management pp. 545-562

Ashley Nicole West and Gary M. Fleischman

Local Corruption and Trade Credit: Evidence from an Emerging Market pp. 563-594

Wenwu Cai, Xiaofeng Quan and Gary Gang Tian

Offshore Outsourcing from a Catholic Social Teaching Perspective pp. 595-609

Gregorio Guitián and Alejo José G. Sison

A Perspective on the Influence of National Corporate Governance Institutions and Government’s Political Ideology on the Speed to Lockdown as a Means of Protection Against Covid-19 pp. 611-628

Dawn Yi Lin Chow, Andreas Petrou and Andreas Procopiou

Exploring the Effectiveness of Sustainability Measurement: Which ESG Metrics Will Survive COVID-19? pp. 629-646

Jill Atkins, Federica Doni, Andrea Gasperini, Sonia Artuso, Ilaria Torre and Lorena Sorrentino

Developing, Validating, and Applying a Measure of Human Quality Treatment pp. 647-663

Peter McGhee, Jarrod Haar, Kemi Ogunyemi and Patricia Grant

Exploring and Expanding Supererogatory Acts: Beyond Duty for a Sustainable Future pp. 665-688

Gareth R. T. White, Anthony Samuel and Robert J. Thomas

Do Corporate Customers Prefer Socially Responsible Suppliers? An Instrumental Stakeholder Theory Perspective pp. 689-712

Ran Tao, Jian Wu and Hong Zhao

Volume 185, issue 2, 2023

The Political Ontology of Corporate Social Responsibility: Obscuring the Pluriverse in Place pp. 245-261

Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes and Steffen Böhm

“Everyone Has a Truth”: Forms of Ecological Embeddedness in an Interorganizational Context pp. 263-280

Lucie Baudoin and Daniel Arenas

Tinkering Toward the Good––Sustainable Investing Between Utopian Imaginaries and Actualizations pp. 281-297

Sara Dahlman

Accounting for Plural Cognitive Framings of Growth and Sustainability: Rethinking Management Education in Latin America pp. 299-313

Maria Jose Murcia and Pilar Acosta

How do Russian National Systems of Institutional Absences Shape Insensitive Corporate Environmental Violence of a Russian Extractive Multinational Corporation? pp. 315-331

Sofia Villo and Natalya Turkina

The Impact of Perceived Greenwashing on Customer Satisfaction and the Contingent Role of Capability Reputation pp. 333-347

Ioannis Ioannou, George Kassinis and Giorgos Papagiannakis

Governing Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling: The Effect of the Governance Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling pp. 349-374

Ammar Gull, Nazim Hussain, Sana Akbar Khan, Zaheer Khan and Asif Saeed

Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions pp. 375-396

Yongqiang Gao, Miaohan Zhang and Haibin Yang

Religious Expression and Crowdfunded Microfinance Success: Insights from Role Congruity Theory pp. 397-426

Aaron H. Anglin, Hana Milanov and Jeremy C. Short

Who Cares More About the Environment, Those with an Intrinsic, an Extrinsic, a Quest, or an Atheistic Religious Orientation?: Investigating the Effect of Religious Ad Appeals on Attitudes Toward the Environment pp. 427-448

Denni Arli, Patrick Esch and Yuanyuan Cui

Double-Edged Effects of Creative Personality on Moral Disengagement and Unethical Behaviors: Dual Motivational Mechanisms and a Situational Contingency pp. 449-466

Xin Liu, Byron Y. Lee, Tae-Yeol Kim, Yaping Gong and Xiaoming Zheng

Can Job Stressors Activate Amoral Manipulation? A Weekly Diary Study pp. 467-482

Gloria Xiaocheng Ma, Paraskevas Petrou, Arnold B. Bakker and Marise Ph. Born

Volume 185, issue 1, 2023

Business and the Ethics of Recognition pp. 1-16

Caleb Bernacchio

Particularizing Nonhuman Nature in Stakeholder Theory: The Recognition Approach pp. 17-31

Teea Kortetmäki, Anna Heikkinen and Ari Jokinen

Managerial Discretion, Market Failure and Democracy pp. 33-47

Michael Bennett

The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations pp. 49-74

Matthew Amengual, Rita Mota and Alexander Rustler

A Libertarian Defense of Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act pp. 75-87

William Kline

Cash and the Hidden Economy: Experimental Evidence on Fighting Tax Evasion in Small Business Transactions pp. 89-114

Ho Fai Chan, Uwe Dulleck, Jonas Fooken, Naomi Moy and Benno Torgler

CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications pp. 115-145

Kais Bouslah, Abdelmajid Hmaittane, Lawrence Kryzanowski and Bouchra M’Zali

Do CEOs with Sent-Down Movement Experience Foster Corporate Environmental Responsibility? pp. 147-168

Dayuan Li, Jialin Jiang, Lu Zhang, Chen Huang and Ding Wang

The Dark Side of Leader Narcissism: The Relationship Between Leaders’ Narcissistic Rivalry and Abusive Supervision pp. 169-184

Iris K. Gauglitz, Birgit Schyns, Theresa Fehn and Astrid Schütz

Are All Directors Treated Equally? Evidence from Director Turnover Following Opportunistic Insider Selling pp. 185-207

Sander De Groote, Liesbeth Bruynseels and Ann Gaeremynck

When Your Leader Just Does Not Make Any Sense: Conceptualizing Inconsistent Leadership pp. 209-221

Jan Schilling, Birgit Schyns and Daniel May

The Association of Female Leaders with Donations and Operating Margin in Nonprofit Organizations pp. 223-243

Veena L. Brown and Erica E. Harris