Journal of Business Ethics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Business Ethics is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Role of the Ugly = Bad Stereotype in the Rejection of Misshapen Produce248
How Identity Work Drives Ethical Conduct in Organizations: The Case of Organizational Citizenship Behavior215
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases213
The Affective Processes of Ethical Leadership: The Role of Moral Emotions181
Financing a Sustainable Future: The Diverging Effects of Equity and Credit Market Development on Corporate Social Responsibility157
Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States155
Why and When Do Historical Brand Transgressions Matter?132
Authoritarian-Benevolent Leadership and Employee Behaviors: An Examination of the Role of LMX Ambivalence104
COVID-19 Policy Actions, Trust in Government and Tax Compliance Intentions: A Study of the British Self-Employment Income Support Scheme96
Challenges and Insights from South Asia for Imagining Ethical Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue95
Between Intensity and Diversity: Leveraging the Role of Place in Cross-Sector Partnerships86
Attention-Based Constraint to MNC Coevolution in China's Changing Stakeholder Environment83
Does CSR Engagement Deter Corporate Misconduct? Quasi-natural Experimental Evidence from Firms Joining a Government-Initiated Social Program in China80
Exploring the Effectiveness of Sustainability Measurement: Which ESG Metrics Will Survive COVID-19?80
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Compliance as a Cost-Effective System of Interaction Between Business and Government77
Who Helps Who? The Role of Stigma Dimensions in Harassment Intervention77
Still Waters Run Deep: How Employee Silence Affects Instigated Workplace Incivility Over Time73
The Child Labor in Social Media: Kidfluencers, Ethics of Care, and Exploitation73
Management and Business Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to Special Issue72
How Officials’ Political Incentives Influence Corporate Green Innovation72
Privacy Behaviour: A Model for Online Informed Consent71
Toward Understanding Employees 'Responses to Leaders' Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: An Outcome Favorability Perspective68
Machine Learning for Predicting Corporate Violations: How Do CEO Characteristics Matter?67
The Ethics of Freedom in Consumption: An Ethnographic Account of the Social Dimensions of Supermarket Shopping for Moroccan Women63
Board Chairs’ Early-Life Experience and Tax Avoidance61
Bringing Ethical Consumption to the Forefront in Emerging Markets: The Role of Product Categorization61
Religion and Mortgage Misrepresentation57
Theorizing Discursive Resistance to Organizational Ethics of Care Through a Multi-stakeholder Perspective on Disability Inclusion Practices54
Financial Accountability and Religious Sentiments: The Case of Sukuk Bond54
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem53
Cultivating CSR: The Artistic Influence of Top Executives on Corporate Responsibility53
The Moderating Role of Intrinsic and Quest Religiosity on the Effectiveness of Religious Appeals in Promoting Cultured Meat53
Family Business Ethics: A Literature Review and Research Agenda52
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility52
Integrative Resource Model of Workplace Inclusion for Reduced Inequality: Conservation of Resources Perspective52
Transparency in Place of Fair Insurance Pricing51
Can Good Information Prevent Misconduct? The Role of Organizational Epistemic Virtues for Ethical Behavior49
Does Corporate Political Advocacy Wrong Shareholders?49
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Review of Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI by R. Blackman; Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studie49
Global South States’ Views on Building Partnerships with Corporations: An Agonistic Struggle in the UN and Beyond48
“If you like it Green, put a ring on it”: Married women directors and environmental performance in family and non-family businesses46
Are Business Ethics Effective? A Market Failures Approach to Impact Investing46
The Effect of Customers’ Unethical Practices on Suppliers’ Intention to Continue Their Relationships46
Pledging Patent Rights for Fighting Against the COVID-19: From the Ethical and Efficiency Perspective46
Mandating Diversity on the Board of Directors: Do Investors Feel That Gender Quotas Result in Tokenism or Added Value for Firms?44
Amoral Management and the Normalisation of Deviance: The Case of Stafford Hospital44
Carbon Emissions and TCFD Aligned Climate-Related Information Disclosures43
Self-Interest over Ethics: Firm Withdrawal from Russia After the Ukraine Invasion43
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists42
Breaking Out of the Cocoon: Whistleblowing Opportunities Under Conditions of Normalized Wrongdoing42
Towards Normative Theories of Social Entrepreneurship. A Review of the Top Publications of the Field42
Microaggressions, Interrupted: The Experience and Effects of Gender Microaggressions for Women in STEM42
The Impact of Perceived Greenwashing on Customer Satisfaction and the Contingent Role of Capability Reputation42
Local Corruption and Trade Credit: Evidence from an Emerging Market42
The Role of Compassion in Shaping Social Entrepreneurs’ Prosocial Opportunity Recognition41
Challenging the Good Life: An Institutional Theoretic Investigation of Consumers’ Transformational Process Toward Sustainable Living40
Challenging or Threatening? The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Intelligent Technology Awareness on Accountants’ Unethical Decision-Making40
Do the Right Thing: The Imprinting of Deonance at the Upper Echelons39
Crossing the Red Line? Empirical Evidence and Useful Recommendations on Questionable Research Practices among Business Scholars38
The Ethics of Financial Market Making and Its Implications for High-Frequency Trading38
Who are the Empowered Employees: Those with High Work Performance or High Ethical Behavior?38
Markets Within the Limit of Feasibility38
Strategic Earnings Announcement Timing and Fraud Detection37
Why is Crafting the Job Associated with Less Prosocial Reactions and More Social Undermining? The Role of Feelings of Relative Deprivation and Zero-Sum Mindset36
Predatory Monetisation? A Categorisation of Unfair, Misleading and Aggressive Monetisation Techniques in Digital Games from the Player Perspective36
How to Object to the Profit System (and How Not To)36
Through New Eyes: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Unemployment, and Transhumanism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun36
Correction to: What Makes You a Whistleblower? A Multi-Country Field Study on the Determinants of the Intention to Report Wrongdoing36
A National Governance Approach to the Political Nature and Role of Business: Case Study of the Mobile Telecommunications Industry in Afghanistan35
Does a Help Giver Seek the Help from Others? The Consistency and Licensing Mechanisms and the Role of Leader Respect35
Corporate Responses to Intimate Partner Violence35
Can Job Stressors Activate Amoral Manipulation? A Weekly Diary Study34
Experimental Effects of Institutionalizing Co-determination by a Procedurally Fair Bidding Rule34
Double-Edged Effects of Creative Personality on Moral Disengagement and Unethical Behaviors: Dual Motivational Mechanisms and a Situational Contingency34
An Examination of Mind Perception and Moral Reasoning in Ethical Decision-Making: A Mixed-Methods Approach34
Religious Beliefs Inspire Sustainable HOPE (Help Ourselves Protect the Environment): Culture, Religion, Dogma, and Liturgy—The Matthew Effect in Religious Social Responsibility34
Defining and Conceptualizing Impact Investing: Attractive Nuisance or Catalyst?33
The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance33
Hypocrites! Social Media Reactions and Stakeholder Backlash to Conflicting CSR Information33
Effective Awe-Inspiring Visual Content Strategy for Social Media Engagement with Ethical Fashion Brands: The Mediating Role of Deontological Ethical Beliefs32
Time to Talk About Race32
The Duty Speech Loophole in Whistleblower Protection: Why We Need Retroactive Causality to Avoid Moral Luck32
Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals32
Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t32
Spotting Portfolio Greenwashing in Environmental Funds31
Does Price Personalization Ethically Outperform Unitary Pricing? A Thought Experiment and a Simulation Study31
Antagonism to Protagonism: Tracing the Historical Contours of Legalization in an Emerging Industry31
Seeing the Issue Differently (Or Not At All): How Bounded Ethicality Complicates Coordination Towards Sustainability Goals31
Gender Diversity: From Wall Street to Main Street30
Misrepresentation of Marginalized Groups: A Critique of Epistemic Neocolonialism30
Does Confucianism Prompt Firms to Participate in Poverty Alleviation Campaigns?30
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program30
Spoof, Bluff, Go For It: A Defence of Spoofing30
The End of Meaningful Work in the Not-for-Profit Sector? A Case Study of Ethics in Employee Relations Under the New Business-Like Operation Regime30
Implicit Morality Theories: Employees’ Beliefs About the Malleability of Moral Character Shape Their Workplace Behaviors30
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum30
A Decision Theory Perspective on Wicked Problems, SDGs and Stakeholders: The Case of Deforestation29
The (In)Visibility of Diversity in Alternative Organizations29
At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice29
Rebellion Under Exploitation: How and When Exploitative Leadership Evokes Employees’ Workplace Deviance29
Diversity for Justice vs. Diversity for Performance: Philosophical and Empirical Tensions29
Are Companies Offloading Risk onto Employees in Times of Uncertainty? Insights from Corporate Pension Plans29
The Virtuousness of Ethical Networks: How to Foster Virtuous Practices in Nonprofit Organizations29
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance28
Anxious Altruism: Virtue Signaling Mediates the Impact of Attachment Style on Consumers’ Green Purchase Behavior and Prosocial Responses28
A Rawlsian Rule for Corporate Governance28
Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy28
Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors27
Media Reporting of Environmental Supply Chain Sustainability Risks: Contextual and Moderating Factors27
Innovator or Troublemaker? The Co-evolution of Ethical Controversies, Legitimation and Institutionalisation of the Ridesharing Firms in China27
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities27
The Bundian Way: An Indigenous-Led Cross-Sector Partnership in Place Through Time27
The Case for Parentalism at Work: Balancing Feminist Care Ethics and Justice Ethics through a Winnicottian approach: A School Case Study27
Religiosity and Charitable Giving on Investors’ Trading Behaviour in the Indonesian Islamic Stock Market: Islamic vs Market Logic27
Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions27
Resource Dependencies and the Legitimatization of Grocery Retailer’s Social Evaluations of Suppliers26
Navigating the Ethically Complex and Controversial World of College Athletics: A Humanistic Leadership Approach to Student Athlete Well-Being26
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective26
Ethical Issues Around Share Repurchase Announcements: The Role of Social Capital26
Integrating Moral Personhood and Moral Management: A Confucian Approach to Ethical Leadership26
An Experimental Study of a Change in Professional Accountants’ Code of Ethics: The Influence of NOCLAR on the Duty to Report Illegal Acts to an External Authority26
Workplace Incivility in STEM Organizations: A Typology of STEM Incivility and Affective Consequences for Women Employees26
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond26
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior26
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders25
Individual and Organizational Rule-Breaking: Test of an Integrated Multilevel Model25
How Do Foreign SMEs Mitigate Violent Conflict Risk by Doing Good? An Instrumental Stakeholder Theory Perspective25
A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Entrepreneurs’ Gender on their Access to Bank Finance25
When There’s No One Else to Blame: The Impact of Coworkers’ Perceived Competence and Warmth on the Relations between Ostracism, Shame, and Ingratiation25
To Buy or Not to Buy? Exploring Ethical Consumerism in an Emerging Market—India25
Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory25
Shhh… Do Gender-Diverse Boards Prioritize Product Market Concerns Over Capital Market Incentives?25
In Defence of the Indefensible: Exploring Justification Narratives of Corporate Elites Accused of Corruption24
Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors24
Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace: The Contingent Nature of Business-Related Action with Respect to Peace Positive Impacts24
Caught in a Dilemma: The Impacts of Dual Organizational Identification on Host Country Nationals in the Face of Ethical Controversies23
“Be Not Conformed to this World”: MacIntyre’s Critique of Modernity and Amish Business Ethics23
No Planet B Available! A Review of The Climate Book: The Facts and Solutions by Greta Thunberg23
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study23
Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership23
Religion in Family Firms: A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective on Top-Level Executives with Perceived Religiosity23
Ethical Pursuit or Personal Nirvana? Unpacking the Practice of Danshari in China23
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity23
Taking Stock of Ethics and Compliance Programs as Anticorruption Mechanisms: An Integrative Review22
The Ethics of Commons Organizing: A Critical Reading22
The Sociable and the Deviant: A Latent Profile Analysis of HEXACO and the Dark Triad22
Responsible Business Conduct in Commodity Trading—A Multidisciplinary Review22
Doing Good and Doing Well? CSR Climate as a Driver of Team Empowerment and Team Performance22
Contextualizing Ethical Climate: Examining Contextual Moderators of the Connection Between Ethical Climate Perceptions and Ethical Behavior22
Untangling the Paradoxical Relationship Between Religion and Business: A Systematic Literature Review of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Religiosity Research22
Selling Who You Know: How We Justify Sharing Others’ Data21
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft21
Board Gender Diversity and Within-Firm Wage Inequity: Evidence from the Relaxation of China’s One-Child Policy21
Theorizing Effective (Preventative) Remedy: Exploring the Root Cause Dimensions of Human Rights Abuse & Remedy21
Corporate Social Responsibility in Liquid Times: The Case of Romania20
Organized Decoupling of Management Control Systems: An Exploratory Study of Traders’ Unethical Behavior20
Forgiving the Unforgivable: The Possibility of the ‘Unconditional’ Forgiveness in the Workplace20
Local Tournament Incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility20
Ethical Foundations of the Islamic Financial Industry20
The Influence of CSR Orientation on Innovative Performance: Is the Effect Conditioned to the Implementation of Organizational Practices?20
Who Keeps Company with the Wolf will Learn to Howl: Does Local Corruption Culture Affect Financial Adviser Misconduct?20
Correction to: Accounting Frauds and Main-Bank Monitoring in Japanese Corporations19
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes19
Correction to: Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts19
Correction to: The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research19
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Corporate Environmental Engagement19
Correction: Social Accountability, Ethics, and the Occupy Wall Street Protests19
Social Entrepreneur Servant Leadership and Social Venture Performance: How are They Related?19
Informal Networks, Informal Institutions, and Social Exclusion in the Workplace: Insights from Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations in Korea18
Board Gender Diversity and Women in Senior Management18
Changing Lens: Broadening the Research Agenda of Women in Management in China18
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue18
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment18
The EThIC Model of Virtue-Based Allyship Development: A New Approach to Equity and Inclusion in Organizations18
The Purpose Ecosystem and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Interactions Among Private Sector Actors and Stakeholders18
Religious Expression and Crowdfunded Microfinance Success: Insights from Role Congruity Theory18
Biased Humans, (Un)Biased Algorithms?18
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning18
When the Private and the Public Self Don’t Align: The Role of Discrepant Moral Identity Dimensions in Processing Inconsistent CSR Information18
Global Insights on TMT Gender Diversity in Controversial Industries: A Legitimacy Perspective17
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching17
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Climate Change: Evidence from CO2 Emission17
Ethical Sensibilities for Practicing Care in Management and Organization Research17
Board Gender Diversity and Managerial Obfuscation: Evidence from the Readability of Narrative Disclosure in 10-K Reports17
Linking Temporal Landmarks to Voluntary Simplicity: The Mediating Roles of Self-Transcendence and Self-Enhancement17
Corruption, Bribery and Innovation in CEE: Where is the Link?17
When and How Underdog Expectations Promote Cheating Behavior: The Roles of Need Fulfillment and General Self-efficacy17
Women Leadership, Culture, and Islam: Female Voices from Jordan17
Accounting for Plural Cognitive Framings of Growth and Sustainability: Rethinking Management Education in Latin America17
Leading Without a Self: Implications of Buddhist Practices for Pseudo-spiritual Leadership17
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes16
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding16
When Crises Hit Home: How U.S. Higher Education Leaders Navigate Values During Uncertain Times16
The Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Meaningful Work16
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America16
The Making of an Authentic Leader’s Internalized Moral Perspective: The Role of Internalized Ethical Philosophies in the Development of Authentic Leaders’ Moral Identity16
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting16
A Feminist Ethics of Care for the Embodied Organizing of Solidarity: Lessons from the Refugee Crisis in Greece15
Societal Inequality, Corruption and Relation-Based Inequality in Organizations15
What Makes Work Meaningful?15
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors15
Guest Editorial: Business Ethics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence15
Universal Design for the Workplace: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities15
Fostering Social Impact Through Corporate Implementation of the SDGs: Transformative Mechanisms Towards Interconnectedness and Inclusiveness15
Regulatory Entrepreneurship, Fair Competition, and Obeying the Law15
A Meta-Analytical Assessment of the Effect of Deontological Evaluations and Teleological Evaluations on Ethical Judgments/Intentions15
Evidence on the Economic Consequences of Marriage Equality and LGBT Human Rights15
Greatest Good for the Greatest Number – the Role of Managers’ Ethical Meaning-Making and Subjective Wellbeing Complexity15
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity15
Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence14
The (In)Visibility of Undisclosed Political Connections14
Managerial Short-Termism and Corporate Social Performance: The Moderating Role of External Monitoring14
Three Dilemmas of Disabled Employee Voice14
Extending Social Sustainability to Suppliers: The Role of GVC Governance Strategies and Supplier Country Institutions14
Correction to: Drivers and Inhibitors of Internet Privacy Concern: A Multidimensional Development Theory Perspective14
Demoralizing Markets: Vendor Conscience and Impersonalism14
The Dark Side of Machiavellian Rhetoric: Signaling in Reward-Based Crowdfunding Performance14
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda14
Do Old Board Directors Promote Corporate Social Responsibility?14
Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip14
Diverse, Ethical, Collaborative Leadership Through Revitalized Cultural Archetype: The Mary Alternative14
Inherited Scepticism and Neo-communist CSR-washing: Evidence from a Post-communist Society14
Discrimination in Services: How Service Recovery Efforts Change with Customer Accent14
Relative Performance Goals and Management Earnings Guidance14
Dehybridization in the Face of the Party-State: A Longitudinal Case Study of a Chinese SOE's Corporate Governance Responses to Institutional Change14
Radical, Relevant, Reflective and Brilliant: Towards the Future of Business Ethics14
Bringing the Family Logic in: From Duality to Plurality in Social Enterprises14
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life14
The Dark Side of Leader Narcissism: The Relationship Between Leaders’ Narcissistic Rivalry and Abusive Supervision14
Judicial Waves, Ethical Shifts: Bankruptcy Courts and Corporate ESG Performance14
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?14
Does the Ethos of Law Erode? Lawyers’ Professional Practices, Self-Understanding and Ethics at Work14
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision13
Reviewers 202313
Trying to Serve Two Masters is Easy, Compared to Three: Identity Multiplicity Work by Christian Impact Investors13
Impact of Peer Unethical Behaviors on Employee Silence: The Role of Organizational Identification and Emotions13
Racial Justice Without Character: Business Ethics, Diversity Training, and Distributed Cognition13
How to Evaluate Managerial Nudges13
Generalist Versus Specialist CEOs and the Scope of Corporate Social Responsibility13
Publisher Correction to: Does Social Media Pressure Induce Corporate Hypocrisy? Evidence of ESG Greenwashing from China13
Do Returnee Executives Value Corporate Philanthropy? Evidence from China13
Managerial Control of Employees’ Intercorporeality and the Production of Unethical Relations13
Do Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Tax Avoidance? The Case of Drought13
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective13
Experience of Marginalization in Noncooperative Spaces: The Case of Undocumented Migrant Workers in Italy13
How to Design Green Compensation to Promote Managers’ Pro-Environmental Behavior? A Goal-Framing Perspective13
‘I Can Only Do My Best and Leave the Rest to God”: Religious/Spiritual Coping Strategies of African Nurses in the UK13
Bridging East and West: How Business Schools Can Develop Responsible Leader Competencies13
The Intellectual Structure of Sales Ethics Research: A Multi-method Bibliometric Analysis13
‘Migration Under the Glow of Privilege’—Unpacking Privilege and Its Effect on the Migration Experience13
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