Journal of Business Ethics

1998 - 2025

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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

Volume 184, issue 4, 2023

Emplaced Partnerships and the Ethics of Care, Recognition and Resilience pp. 757-772

Annmarie Ryan, Susi Geiger, Helen Haugh, Oana Branzei, Barbara L. Gray, Thomas B. Lawrence, Tim Cresswell, Alastair Anderson, Sarah Jack and Ed McKeever

Between Intensity and Diversity: Leveraging the Role of Place in Cross-Sector Partnerships pp. 773-791

Lea Stadtler and Luk N. Wassenhove

Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships pp. 793-812

Ana Cristina Dahik Loor, Todd W. Moss and Suho Han

Correction to: Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships pp. 813-813

Ana Cristina Dahik Loor, Todd W. Moss and Suho Han

Collaborating for Community Regeneration: Facilitating Partnerships in, Through, and for Place pp. 815-834

Jennifer Brenton and Natalie Slawinski

The Emergence of Concerned Partnerships in the Ethical Marketization of Place: A Narrative Lens pp. 835-854

Teea Palo

Would You Walk 500 Miles? Place Stewardship in the Collaborative Governance of Social-Ecological Systems pp. 855-876

Lucie Baudoin, Mohammed Zakriya, Daniel Arenas and Lael Walsh

The Bundian Way: An Indigenous-Led Cross-Sector Partnership in Place Through Time pp. 877-894

Maegan Baker, Leanne Cutcher and Jarrod Ormiston

Putting Space in Place. Multimodal Translation of the Grand Challenge of Regional Smart Specialization from Policy to Cross-sector Partnerships pp. 895-915

Paula Ungureanu

Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning pp. 917-932

Christof Brandtner, Gordon C. C. Douglas and Martin Kornberger

Place and the Structuring of Cross-Sector Partnerships: The Moral and Material Conflicts Over Healthcare and Homelessness pp. 933-955

M. Hassan Awad

Volume 184, issue 3, 2023

Crossing the Red Line? Empirical Evidence and Useful Recommendations on Questionable Research Practices among Business Scholars pp. 549-569

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

Rank Has Its Privileges: Explaining Why Laboratory Safety Is a Persistent Challenge pp. 571-587

Gokce Basbug, Ayn Cavicchi and Susan S. Silbey

Beyond Rational Persuasion: How Leaders Change Moral Norms pp. 589-603

Charles Spinosa, Matthew Hancocks, Haridimos Tsoukas and Billy Glennon

Does a Help Giver Seek the Help from Others? The Consistency and Licensing Mechanisms and the Role of Leader Respect pp. 605-626

Qiqi Wang, Xueling Fan, Jun Liu and Wenjing Cai

Providing Service During a Merger: The Role of Organizational Goal Clarity and Servant Leadership pp. 627-647

Emma C. E. Heine, Jeroen Stouten and Robert C. Liden

A Framework for Leader, Spiritual, and Moral Development pp. 649-663

Stuart Allen and Louis W. Fry

Religious Beliefs Inspire Sustainable HOPE (Help Ourselves Protect the Environment): Culture, Religion, Dogma, and Liturgy—The Matthew Effect in Religious Social Responsibility pp. 665-685

Yalin Mo, Junyu Zhao and Thomas Li-Ping Tang

Challenge–Hindrance Stressors, Helping Behavior and Job Performance: Double-Edged Sword of Religiousness pp. 687-699

Muhammad Umer Azeem, Inam Ul Haq, Ghulam Murtaza and Hina Jaffery

Family Social Capital in Family Business: A Faith-Based Values Theory pp. 701-724

Ritch L. Sorenson and Jackie M. Milbrandt

The Dual Spillover Spiraling Effects of Family Incivility on Workplace Interpersonal Deviance: From the Conservation of Resources Perspective pp. 725-740

Lan Lin and Yuntao Bai

Why (Some) Corporations Have Positive Duties to (Some of) the Global Poor pp. 741-755

Tadhg Ó Laoghaire

Volume 184, issue 2, 2023

Constructing a ‘Different’ Strength: A Feminist Exploration of Vulnerability, Ethical Agency and Care pp. 317-331

Janet Johansson and Alice Wickström

When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms pp. 333-351

Melanie Richards

In the Club? How Categorization and Contact Impact the Board Gender Diversity-Firm Performance Relationship pp. 353-374

Andre Havrylyshyn, Donald J. Schepker and Anthony J. Nyberg

Changing Lens: Broadening the Research Agenda of Women in Management in China pp. 375-389

Fang Lee Cooke

Does CEO–Auditor Dialect Connectedness Trigger Audit Opinion Shopping? Evidence from China pp. 391-426

Xingqiang Du, Liang Xiao and Yingjie Du

A Mixed Blessing? CEOs’ Moral Cleansing as an Alternative Explanation for Firms’ Reparative Responses Following Misconduct pp. 427-443

Joel B. Carnevale and K. Ashley Gangloff

Experimental Effects of Institutionalizing Co-determination by a Procedurally Fair Bidding Rule pp. 445-458

Federica Alberti, Werner Güth and Kei Tsutsui

The Escalation of Organizational Moral Failure in Public Discourse: A Semiotic Analysis of Nokia’s Bochum Plant Closure pp. 459-478

Lauri Wessel, Riku Ruotsalainen, Henri A. Schildt and Christopher Wickert

A Network Approach to Compliance: A Complexity Science Understanding of How Rules Shape Behavior pp. 479-504

Malouke Esra Kuiper, Monique Chambon, Anne Leonore Bruijn, Chris Reinders Folmer, Elke Hindina Olthuis, Megan Brownlee, Emmeke Barbara Kooistra, Adam Fine, Frenk Harreveld, Gabriela Lunansky and Benjamin Rooij

Are Business Ethics Effective? A Market Failures Approach to Impact Investing pp. 505-524

Rodney Schmidt

Sustainable Procurement Practice: The Effect of Procurement Officers’ Perceptions pp. 525-548

Daniel Etse, Adela McMurray and Nuttawuth Muenjohn

Volume 184, issue 1, 2023

Democracy and Fair Labor Conditions pp. 1-10

Axel Honneth

Deliberating with the Autocrats? A Case Study on the Limitations and Potential of Political CSR in a Non-Democratic Context pp. 11-32

Anna-Lena Maier and Dirk Ulrich Gilbert

Dissensus and Deadlock in the Evolution of Labour Governance: Global Supply Chains and the International Labour Organization (ILO) pp. 33-49

Huw Thomas and Mark Anner

Assessing the Legitimacy of Corporate Political Activity: Uber and the Quest for Responsible Innovation pp. 51-69

Gastón de los Reyes and Markus Scholz

What Motivates Entrepreneurs into Circular Economy Action? Evidence from Japan and Finland pp. 71-91

Savu Rovanto and Max Finne

Political Corruption and Corporate Risk-Taking pp. 93-113

Hinh Khieu, Nam H. Nguyen, Hieu V. Phan and Jon A. Fulkerson

Elections and CSR Engagement: International Evidence pp. 115-138

Bryan W. Husted and Walid Saffar

Reviewing Paradox Theory in Corporate Sustainability Toward a Systems Perspective pp. 139-158

Simone Carmine and Valentina De Marchi

The Paradox of Paranoia: How One’s Own Self-Interested Unethical Behavior Can Spark Paranoia and Reduce Affiliative Behavior Toward Coworkers pp. 159-173

Annika Hillebrandt, Daniel L. Brady, Maria Francisca Saldanha and Laurie J. Barclay

Why is Crafting the Job Associated with Less Prosocial Reactions and More Social Undermining? The Role of Feelings of Relative Deprivation and Zero-Sum Mindset pp. 175-190

Yanan Dong, Limei Zhang, Hai-Jiang Wang and Jing Jiang

Correction to: Why is Crafting the Job Associated with Less Prosocial Reactions and More Social Undermining? The Role of Feelings of Relative Deprivation and Zero-Sum Mindset pp. 191-191

Yanan Dong, Limei Zhang, Hai-Jiang Wang and Jing Jiang

Implicit Morality Theories: Employees’ Beliefs About the Malleability of Moral Character Shape Their Workplace Behaviors pp. 193-216

Zhiyu Feng, Fong Keng-Highberger, Hu Li and Krishna Savani

Organizations, Learning, and Sustainability: A Cross-Disciplinary Review and Research Agenda pp. 217-235

Melanie Feeney, Therese Grohnert, Wim Gijselaers and Pim Martens

The Ability and Willingness of Family Firms to Bribe: A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective pp. 237-254

Shisong Jiang and Yijie Min

Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How and When Machiavellian Leaders Demonstrate Strategic Abuse pp. 255-280

Zhiyu Feng, Fong Keng-Highberger, Kai Chi Yam, Xiao-Ping Chen and Hu Li

Struggling to Stay Engaged During Adversity: A Daily Investigation of Frontline Service Employees’ Job Insecurity and the Moderating Role of Ethical Leader Behavior pp. 281-295

Sang-Hoon Lee, Won-Moo Hur and Yuhyung Shin

A Paradox of Ethics: Why People in Good Organizations do Bad Things pp. 297-316

Muel Kaptein