OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Business Ethics is 52. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities	369
From Critique to Action: A Capability Approach to Reimagining Human Rights Due Diligence	252
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft	232
The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework	172
The Limits of the Ethical Responsibilities of Companies: Using Corporate Social Contract Theory to Identify Boundary Principles	139
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases	131
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study	125
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit	123
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum	118
Does the Moral Norm Initiative Affect Corporate Tax Compliance? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China	106
Good Intentions Gone Awry: How and When Perceived Platform CSR Toward Customers Undermines Gig Workers’ Service Delivery Quality	105
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning	101
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond	101
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem	96
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching	95
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective	93
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes	92
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America	86
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue	85
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists	84
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders	82
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting	82
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment	82
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility	80
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity	80

When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes	75
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program	75
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior	75
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance	75
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders	74
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective	72
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation	64
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors	63
Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language	62
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision	60
When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms	60
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective	59
Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024)	59
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?	59
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life	58
Navigating Ethical Waters: Trade Credit Provisions for Related-Party Customers	58
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms	57
A Narrative Enquiry About Expatriates’ Situated Moral Agency in Confronting Ethical Problems	57
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers	57
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers	57
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity	56
Do Venture Capitalists Replace Women with Men to Lead Portfolio Companies?	56
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation	56
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions	55
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda	55
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice	54
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees	53