OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Business Ethics is 45. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program	291
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective	254
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft	200
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases	165
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum	128
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem	117
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment	95
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning	95
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding	94
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes	93
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching	93
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance	91
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit	88
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes	75
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America	73
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders	72
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior	72
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond	72
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting	71
The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework	67
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study	66
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue	65
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities	64
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity	64
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists	63

Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility	63
Collective Phronesis in Business Ethics Education and Managerial Practice: A Neo-Aristotelian Analysis	62
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders	61
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda	59
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective	59
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience	59
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions	57
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation	55
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective	54
The Behavior of Organization in Economic Crisis: Integration, Interpretation, and Research Development	54
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?	53
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity	52
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications	51
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms	50
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life	46
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation	46
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors	46
Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024)	46
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers	46
Corporate Social Innovation in Developing Countries	45
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees	45
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda	45
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice	45
Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence	45