OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Business Ethics is 47. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond	272
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective	239
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study	234
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft	197
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases	181
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum	141
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching	132
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning	113
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes	107
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists	92
The Ethics of Financial Market Making and Its Implications for High-Frequency Trading	88
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem	87
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities	86
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance	82
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit	81
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes	80
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America	79
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment	79
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility	79
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Compliance as a Cost-Effective System of Interaction Between Business and Government	75
Organized Decoupling of Management Control Systems: An Exploratory Study of Traders’ Unethical Behavior	74
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue	72
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program	70
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity	67
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior	67

Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders	66
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting	64
Ethical Foundations of the Islamic Financial Industry	63
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding	59
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice	57
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda	57
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience	56
Collective Phronesis in Business Ethics Education and Managerial Practice: A Neo-Aristotelian Analysis	56
Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition	56
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision	55
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications	53
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation	53
The Behavior of Organization in Economic Crisis: Integration, Interpretation, and Research Development	52
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers	52
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders	51
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective	49
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?	49
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective	48
Corporate Social Innovation in Developing Countries	48
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity	48
Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024)	48
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms	48