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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond272
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective239
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study234
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft197
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases181
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum141
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching132
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning113
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes107
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists92
The Ethics of Financial Market Making and Its Implications for High-Frequency Trading88
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem87
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities86
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance82
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit81
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes80
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America79
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment79
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility79
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Compliance as a Cost-Effective System of Interaction Between Business and Government75
Organized Decoupling of Management Control Systems: An Exploratory Study of Traders’ Unethical Behavior74
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue72
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program70
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity67
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior67
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders66
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting64
Ethical Foundations of the Islamic Financial Industry63
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding59
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda57
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice57
Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition56
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience56
Collective Phronesis in Business Ethics Education and Managerial Practice: A Neo-Aristotelian Analysis56
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision55
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation53
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications53
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers52
The Behavior of Organization in Economic Crisis: Integration, Interpretation, and Research Development52
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders51
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective49
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?49
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective48
Corporate Social Innovation in Developing Countries48
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity48
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 Firms48
Time Orientation in Languages and Tax Avoidance46
Organizations’ Management Configurations Towards Environment and Market Performances46
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda46
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees46
When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms44
Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language43
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers42
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions42
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life42
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors42
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation42
Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence41
Different Reality? Generations’ and Religious Groups’ Views of Spirituality Policies in the Workplace41
Governing Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling: The Effect of the Governance Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling41
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Implementation: A Review and a Research Agenda Towards an Integrative Framework41
The Relationship of Risk to Rules, Values, Virtues, and Moral Complexity: What We can Learn from the Moral Struggles of Military Leaders40
The Invisible Racialized Minority Entrepreneur: Using White Solipsism to Explain the White Space40
Felt or Thought: Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Exploitative Leadership and Abusive Supervision39
Historical Ownership of Family Firms and Corporate Fraud39
The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations39
Utility and Democracy in Political Campaign Advertising: Toward a Rule-Utilitarian Ethic for Political Marketing and the Ethics of Meddling in the Other Party’s Primary38
Against the Sale of Homeopathy (and Other Ineffective Medicines)38
How and When Leaders’ Perceptions of Team Politics Influence Justice Rule Adherence: A Moral Self-Regulation Perspective38
Ethical Complexity of Social Change: Negotiated Actions of a Social Enterprise38
The Business of Stealing Futures: Race, Gender, and the Student Debt Regime37
A Critique of Utilitarian Trust: The Case of the Dutch Insurance Sector37
Local Understandings of Decent Work and the Legitimacy of Global Labour Standards: Insights from Garment Suppliers in Egypt and Jordan37
Leader-Expressed Humility: Development and Validation of Scales Based on a Comprehensive Conceptualization37
How do Russian National Systems of Institutional Absences Shape Insensitive Corporate Environmental Violence of a Russian Extractive Multinational Corporation?37
Teaching Race in Business Schools: The Challenges and Possibilities of Anti-Racist Education37
Supporting and Humiliating Dignity with Biometric Technologies: An Affordance Perspective36
Deliberating with the Autocrats? A Case Study on the Limitations and Potential of Political CSR in a Non-Democratic Context36
Responsible Management-as-Process of Smoothing–Striating: Transcending Freedom or Control Contingencies35
Institutional Theory in Social Entrepreneurship: A Review and Consideration of Ethics35
Correction to: The Riskification of Internal Auditors’ Ethical Deliberation: An Emerging Third Logic Between Norms and Values?35
Is the Prisoner’s Dilemma an Adequate Concept for Ethical Analysis in Healthcare? An Original Institutional Economic Rejoinder35
The Impact of CEOs’ Personal Traits on Organisational Performance: Evidence from Faith-Based Charity Organisations34
Encouraging Individual Contributions to Net-Zero Organizations: Effects of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Social Norms34
Lying and Cheating the Company: The Positive and Negative Effects of Corporate Activism on Unethical Consumer Behavior34
Right From the Start: The Association Between Ethical Leadership, Trust Primacy, and Customer Loyalty34
Evaluating Negotiators Who Deceptively Communicate Anger or Happiness: On the Importance of Morality, Sociability, and Competence34
Organizational Wrongdoing within the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Integrative Review34
Impact of Directors’ Network on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from China33
Sour Grapes: Exploring Unfavorable Reactions of Employees Who Observe Leader Leniency33
Correction to: Corporate Essence and Identity in Criminal Law33
Tom Angier (ed.), Review of MacIntyre’s After Virtue33
Moral Judgments in the Age of Artificial Intelligence33
Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers33
Unveiling Her Efforts: Gender Diversity’s Impact on Performance Commitments in M&As33
In Search of Regained Time? Autism and Organizational [A]temporality in the Light of Humanistic Management32
Being a Parent Helps Being a Benevolent Leader: A Mixed-Method Approach32
Peer Reaction to Manager Stewardship Behavior: Crediting or Stigmatizing the Behavior?32
Sustaining Livelihoods or Saving Lives? Economic System Justification in the Time of COVID-1932
Receiving Social Support Motivates Long-Term Prosocial Behavior31
Organizations as Spaces for Caring: A Case of an Anti-trafficking Organization in India31
Aesthetic Injustice30
Buffering or Aggravating Effect? Examining the Effects of Prior Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Social Irresponsibility30
CEO Narcissism and Credit Ratings30
Greenwashing or Striving to Persist: An Alternative Explanation of a Loose Coupling Between Corporate Environmental Commitments and Outcomes30
Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics30
Do Generalist CEOs Magnify Boardroom Backscratching?30
Are Fairness Perceptions Related to Moral Licensing Behavior? Evidence From Tax Compliance30
Can We Trust the Trust Words in 10-Ks?30
The Dual Spillover Spiraling Effects of Family Incivility on Workplace Interpersonal Deviance: From the Conservation of Resources Perspective30
Methodological Decolonisation and Local Epistemologies in Business Ethics Research29
The Ethics of Sharing: Does Generosity Erode the Competitive Advantage of an Ecosystem Firm?29
Virtual Special Issue on Corporate Governance and Ethics: What’s Next?29
Orchestration of Care: Exploring the Active Role of Disabled Workers in Creation of Socio-Material Care Arrangements at Work29
Shared Value Creation in Equivocal CSR Environments: A Configuration Approach29
Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct28
How Religiosity Affects Attitudes Toward Brands That Utilize LGBTQ-Themed Advertising28
Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Outcomes: Interrelations of External and Internal Orientations with Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment28
Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?27
Religiosity and Gender Dynamics in Executive Leadership: Impact on CEO Appointments and Pay Disparities27
Decolonizing Deliberative Democracy: Perspectives from Below27
Does CEO Risk-Aversion Affect Carbon Emission?27
Correction to: Guilty by Association: Spillover of Regulative Violations and Repair Efforts to Alliance Partners26
Authentic Brand Ethicality: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation in the Fashion Industry26
Digital and Disembedded? Questioning the Territorial Embeddedness of Local Digital Platforms26
Correction to: Toward Understanding Employees 'Responses to Leaders' Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: An Outcome Favorability Perspective26
Relational HR Practices in Malaysian SMEs: An Ethics of Care Perspective26
Virtue Ethics in Marketing: The Art of Crafting Tragic Brand Stories26
On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation25
Female Management Representation and Corporate Financial Fraud: Do Local Gender Norms Play a Role?25
Developing, Validating, and Applying a Measure of Human Quality Treatment25
“Doing the Right Thing” and “Making a Difference”: The Role of Personal Ethical Values in Diversity and Inclusion Consulting25
Organizational Top Dog (vs. Underdog) Narratives Increase the Punishment of Corporate Moral Transgressions: When Dominance is a Liability and Prestige is an Asset25
Do the Ends Justify the Means? Variation in the Distributive and Procedural Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms25
When Aspirational Talk Backfires: The Role of Moral Judgements in Employees’ Hypocrisy Interpretation24
Time is of the Essence!: Retired Independent Directors’ Contributions to Board Effectiveness24
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Understanding Multiple Perspectives on Social Value in Business: An Integrative Review and Typology24
The Impact of Visual Perspectives in Advertisements on Consumers’ Reactions to Close-to-Expiry Food24
Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships24
Silenced by Incivility24
When Your Leader Just Does Not Make Any Sense: Conceptualizing Inconsistent Leadership23
Will a Moral Follower Please Stand Up (to the Machiavellian Leader)? The Effects of Machiavellian Leadership on Moral Anger and Whistleblowing23
The Metrics of Ethics and the Ethics of Metrics23
The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Employee Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Employment Contract Type23
A Contribution to Sustainable Human Resource Development in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic22
The ethical challenges of teaching business ethics: ethical sensemaking through the Goffmanian lens22
(In)vulnerable Managers in an Immigration Context22
Leadership and Workplace Aggression: A Meta-analysis22
Geographic Concentration of Institutional Blockholders and Workplace Safety Violations22
Narcissism Dynamics and Auditor Skepticism22
‘Should I Tell?’ Moral Reflexivity in 14 Whistleblower Autobiographies22
The Impact of Work-Related Use of Information and Communication Technologies After Hours on Time Theft21
The Normative Value of Making a Positive Contribution–Benefiting Others as a Core Dimension of Meaningful Work21
Clearing the Smoke: Regulations, Moral Legitimacy, and Performance in the U.S. Tobacco Industry21
Temporality and Meaningful Entrepreneurship21
Harmful Leader Behaviors: Toward an Increased Understanding of How Different Forms of Unethical Leader Behavior Can Harm Subordinates21
Ethical Implications of Acceleration: Perspectives From Health Professionals21
Sex Robots: Are We Ready for Them? An Exploration of the Psychological Mechanisms Underlying People’s Receptiveness of Sex Robots21
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Ethics-Oriented HRM Systems, Moral Attentiveness, and Deviant Workplace Behavior21
Mapping Spiritual Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Synthesis of Past Milestones and Future Research Agenda21
Make it Right: Regulatory Intervention in Managers’ Misconduct and Corporate Risk21
Trees in the Forest: How Do Family Owners Make CSR Decisions in Business Groups?21
Reviewing Paradox Theory in Corporate Sustainability Toward a Systems Perspective21
Why and When Do Employees Feel Guilty About Observing Supervisor Ostracism? The Critical Roles of Observers’ Silence Behavior and Leader–Member Exchange Quality21
Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO Led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives20
Angel Investors’ Political Ideology and Investments in Women-Owned Ventures20
How and When Does Employee Creativity Relate to Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior? Unmasking the Negative Side of Organizational Creativity20
Value Creating Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies of Family and Non-Family Firms: An Interventionist Perspective20
Ethical Consumers and Low-Income Sellers on China’s Reward-Based Crowdfunding Platforms: Are Poverty Alleviation Campaigns More Successful?20
Gifts, Corporate Policies, and Individual Morality in UK’s Alternative Real Estate Lending Market20
Social Credit and Trade Credit: A Coevolutionary Perspective20
The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate20
Signaling Effects of CSR Performance on Cross-border Alliance Formation19
Exploring the Antecedents of Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior (UPB): A Meta-Analysis19
When Play at Work Can Foster Harassment-Based Norms: Exploring Moral Disengagement During Social Play19
The Moral Foundations of Vaccine Passports19
How Ethical Leadership and Ethical Self-Leadership Enhance the Effects of Idiosyncratic Deals on Salesperson Work Engagement and Performance19
The Interplay Between Islamic Work Ethic, Unethical Pro Behaviors, and Moral Identity Internalization: The Moderating Role of Religiosity19
The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia–Ukraine War18
Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises18
Is Work an Act of Worship? The Impact of Implicit Religious Beliefs on Work Ethic in Secular vs. Religious Cultures18
Between Intensity and Diversity: Leveraging the Role of Place in Cross-Sector Partnerships18
From Greenwashing to Machinewashing: A Model and Future Directions Derived from Reasoning by Analogy18
Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship: What is the Role of the Founders’ Entrepreneurial Background?18
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and CSR Performance: Evidence from China18
Building Common Ground: How Facilitators Bridge Between Diverging Groups in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue18
Responsible Management-as-Practice: Mobilizing a Posthumanist Approach18
Change in Rhetoric but not in Action? Framing of the Ethical Issue of Modern Slavery in a UK Sector at High Risk of Labor Exploitation18
Business Firms as Moral Agents: A Kantian Response to the Corporate Autonomy Problem18
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How and When Machiavellian Leaders Demonstrate Strategic Abuse18
Constructing a ‘Different’ Strength: A Feminist Exploration of Vulnerability, Ethical Agency and Care18
Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States17
Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace: The Contingent Nature of Business-Related Action with Respect to Peace Positive Impacts17
How Identity Work Drives Ethical Conduct in Organizations: The Case of Organizational Citizenship Behavior17
Correction to: Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts17
Shhh… Do Gender-Diverse Boards Prioritize Product Market Concerns Over Capital Market Incentives?17
At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice17
Cultivating CSR: The Artistic Influence of Top Executives on Corporate Responsibility17
Correction to: The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research17
Challenges and Insights from South Asia for Imagining Ethical Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue17
Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t17
Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy17
Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions17
Robots as Moral Persons: Exploring AI Ethics in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model17
How Officials’ Political Incentives Influence Corporate Green Innovation16
Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors16
Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment16
Who are the Empowered Employees: Those with High Work Performance or High Ethical Behavior?16
Management and Business Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to Special Issue16
Generalized Reciprocity and Interfirm Cooperation: A Study of Entrepreneurial Development in Argentina16
Taking Stock of Ethics and Compliance Programs as Anticorruption Mechanisms: An Integrative Review16
Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory16
Global Insights on TMT Gender Diversity in Controversial Industries: A Legitimacy Perspective16
Challenging or Threatening? The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Intelligent Technology Awareness on Accountants’ Unethical Decision-Making16
Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals16
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 Regime16
Authoritarian-Benevolent Leadership and Employee Behaviors: An Examination of the Role of LMX Ambivalence16
Experimental Effects of Institutionalizing Co-determination by a Procedurally Fair Bidding Rule16
Bringing Ethical Consumption to the Forefront in Emerging Markets: The Role of Product Categorization16
The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance16
Universal Design for the Workplace: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities15
Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership15
From Deception to Rejection: Unraveling the Impact of Workplace Cheating Behavior on Coworker Ostracism15
Relative Performance Goals and Management Earnings Guidance15
Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors15
A Meta-Analytical Assessment of the Effect of Deontological Evaluations and Teleological Evaluations on Ethical Judgments/Intentions15
Boardroom Diversity and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from the UK Firms15
Coevolution of Strategy, Innovation and Ethics15
The Role of Compassion in Shaping Social Entrepreneurs’ Prosocial Opportunity Recognition15
Mandating Diversity on the Board of Directors: Do Investors Feel That Gender Quotas Result in Tokenism or Added Value for Firms?15
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Corporate Environmental Engagement15
A Libertarian Defense of Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act15
Maintaining “Good” Care: An Articulation Work Perspective on Organizational Ethics in the Healthcare Sector15
Addressing the Societal Challenges in Organizations: The Conceptualization of Mindfulness Capability for Social Justice14
The Interplay Between Supply Chain Transparency and NGO Pressure: A Quantitative Analysis in the Fashion Industry Context14
Evolution of Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Hybrid Literature Review and Theoretical Propositions14
The Escalation of Organizational Moral Failure in Public Discourse: A Semiotic Analysis of Nokia’s Bochum Plant Closure14
‘I Can Only Do My Best and Leave the Rest to God”: Religious/Spiritual Coping Strategies of African Nurses in the UK14
Challenge–Hindrance Stressors, Helping Behavior and Job Performance: Double-Edged Sword of Religiousness14
Entitlement Versus Obligation: The Role of Attributed Motives in Subordinate Reactions to Leader Leniency14
Three Dilemmas of Disabled Employee Voice14
Don’t Just Trust Your Gut: The Importance of Normative Deliberation to Ethical Decision-Making at Work14
A Shi’a Islam Approach to Wisdom in Management: A Deep Understanding Opening to Dialogue and Dialectic14
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 Mindset14
Abuse and Exploitation of Doctoral Students: A Conceptual Model for Traversing a Long and Winding Road to Academia14
Talking Ethics Early in Health Data Public Private Partnerships14
Correction to: Deliberating or Stalling for Justice? Dynamics of Corporate Remediation and Victim Resistance Through the Lens of Parentalism: The Fundão dam Collapse and the Renova Foundation in Brazi14
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: The Impact of Job Insecurity on Workplace Cheating Behavior14
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