Journal of Business Ethics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Business Ethics is 11. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program291
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective254
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft200
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases165
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum128
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem117
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning95
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment95
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding94
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching93
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes93
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance91
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit88
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes75
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America73
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior72
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond72
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders72
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting71
The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework67
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study66
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue65
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity64
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities64
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists63
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility63
Collective Phronesis in Business Ethics Education and Managerial Practice: A Neo-Aristotelian Analysis62
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders61
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda59
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective59
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience59
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions57
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation55
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective54
The Behavior of Organization in Economic Crisis: Integration, Interpretation, and Research Development54
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 Inclusivity52
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications51
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms50
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors46
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 Researchers46
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life46
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation46
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda45
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice45
Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence45
Corporate Social Innovation in Developing Countries45
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees45
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision44
When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms44
Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition43
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Implementation: A Review and a Research Agenda Towards an Integrative Framework43
Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language43
Different Reality? Generations’ and Religious Groups’ Views of Spirituality Policies in the Workplace43
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers43
Governing Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling: The Effect of the Governance Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling43
Organizations’ Management Configurations Towards Environment and Market Performances42
The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations41
The Invisible Racialized Minority Entrepreneur: Using White Solipsism to Explain the White Space41
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 Primary40
How and When Leaders’ Perceptions of Team Politics Influence Justice Rule Adherence: A Moral Self-Regulation Perspective40
The Business of Stealing Futures: Race, Gender, and the Student Debt Regime40
Against the Sale of Homeopathy (and Other Ineffective Medicines)40
A Critique of Utilitarian Trust: The Case of the Dutch Insurance Sector39
Is the Prisoner’s Dilemma an Adequate Concept for Ethical Analysis in Healthcare? An Original Institutional Economic Rejoinder39
How do Russian National Systems of Institutional Absences Shape Insensitive Corporate Environmental Violence of a Russian Extractive Multinational Corporation?39
Supporting and Humiliating Dignity with Biometric Technologies: An Affordance Perspective39
Responsible Management-as-Process of Smoothing–Striating: Transcending Freedom or Control Contingencies38
Correction to: The Riskification of Internal Auditors’ Ethical Deliberation: An Emerging Third Logic Between Norms and Values?38
Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers37
Felt or Thought: Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Exploitative Leadership and Abusive Supervision37
Ethical Complexity of Social Change: Negotiated Actions of a Social Enterprise37
Teaching Race in Business Schools: The Challenges and Possibilities of Anti-Racist Education37
Evaluating Negotiators Who Deceptively Communicate Anger or Happiness: On the Importance of Morality, Sociability, and Competence36
Historical Ownership of Family Firms and Corporate Fraud36
Deliberating with the Autocrats? A Case Study on the Limitations and Potential of Political CSR in a Non-Democratic Context36
Motivating Business Students for Civic Education: Design Principles for Aligning Civic Engagement Programs with Student Motivation36
Organizational Wrongdoing within the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Integrative Review35
The Impact of CEOs’ Personal Traits on Organisational Performance: Evidence from Faith-Based Charity Organisations35
Local Understandings of Decent Work and the Legitimacy of Global Labour Standards: Insights from Garment Suppliers in Egypt and Jordan35
Right From the Start: The Association Between Ethical Leadership, Trust Primacy, and Customer Loyalty35
Moral Judgments in the Age of Artificial Intelligence35
Institutional Theory in Social Entrepreneurship: A Review and Consideration of Ethics35
Encouraging Individual Contributions to Net-Zero Organizations: Effects of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Social Norms35
Impact of Directors’ Network on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from China34
Sour Grapes: Exploring Unfavorable Reactions of Employees Who Observe Leader Leniency34
Leader-Expressed Humility: Development and Validation of Scales Based on a Comprehensive Conceptualization34
Lying and Cheating the Company: The Positive and Negative Effects of Corporate Activism on Unethical Consumer Behavior34
Sustaining Livelihoods or Saving Lives? Economic System Justification in the Time of COVID-1933
Organizations as Spaces for Caring: A Case of an Anti-trafficking Organization in India33
In Search of Regained Time? Autism and Organizational [A]temporality in the Light of Humanistic Management33
Tom Angier (ed.), Review of MacIntyre’s After Virtue33
Mitigating Moral Emotions After Crises: A Reconceptualization of Organizational Responses33
Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct32
Does CEO Risk-Aversion Affect Carbon Emission?32
The Folk Ethics of Commodification: An Empirical Investigation into Moral Attitudes Against Market Transactions32
Peer Reaction to Manager Stewardship Behavior: Crediting or Stigmatizing the Behavior?32
CEO Narcissism and Credit Ratings31
Shared Value Creation in Equivocal CSR Environments: A Configuration Approach31
Methodological Decolonisation and Local Epistemologies in Business Ethics Research30
Are Fairness Perceptions Related to Moral Licensing Behavior? Evidence From Tax Compliance30
Greenwashing or Striving to Persist: An Alternative Explanation of a Loose Coupling Between Corporate Environmental Commitments and Outcomes30
The Ethics of Sharing: Does Generosity Erode the Competitive Advantage of an Ecosystem Firm?29
Religiosity and Gender Dynamics in Executive Leadership: Impact on CEO Appointments and Pay Disparities29
How Religiosity Affects Attitudes Toward Brands That Utilize LGBTQ-Themed Advertising29
Aesthetic Injustice29
Aesthetic Encounters, Canines, and Care: New Multispecies Methodological Avenues in Organizational and Business Ethics29
Can We Trust the Trust Words in 10-Ks?28
Beyond Inspiration Porn: Effects of Message Framing on Brand Authenticity and Community Support in Marketing Disabled Athletes28
Orchestration of Care: Exploring the Active Role of Disabled Workers in Creation of Socio-Material Care Arrangements at Work28
Receiving Social Support Motivates Long-Term Prosocial Behavior28
Virtual Special Issue on Corporate Governance and Ethics: What’s Next?28
Being a Parent Helps Being a Benevolent Leader: A Mixed-Method Approach28
Buffering or Aggravating Effect? Examining the Effects of Prior Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Social Irresponsibility27
The Dual Spillover Spiraling Effects of Family Incivility on Workplace Interpersonal Deviance: From the Conservation of Resources Perspective27
Decolonizing Deliberative Democracy: Perspectives from Below27
Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics27
Unveiling Her Efforts: Gender Diversity’s Impact on Performance Commitments in M&As27
Virtue Ethics in Marketing: The Art of Crafting Tragic Brand Stories26
Authentic Brand Ethicality: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation in the Fashion Industry26
Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?26
Digital and Disembedded? Questioning the Territorial Embeddedness of Local Digital Platforms25
The Impact of Work-Related Use of Information and Communication Technologies After Hours on Time Theft25
Mapping Spiritual Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Synthesis of Past Milestones and Future Research Agenda25
Developing, Validating, and Applying a Measure of Human Quality Treatment25
Why and When Do Employees Feel Guilty About Observing Supervisor Ostracism? The Critical Roles of Observers’ Silence Behavior and Leader–Member Exchange Quality25
Correction to: Guilty by Association: Spillover of Regulative Violations and Repair Efforts to Alliance Partners25
“Doing the Right Thing” and “Making a Difference”: The Role of Personal Ethical Values in Diversity and Inclusion Consulting25
Correction to: Toward Understanding Employees 'Responses to Leaders' Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: An Outcome Favorability Perspective25
Do the Ends Justify the Means? Variation in the Distributive and Procedural Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms25
Organizational Top Dog (vs. Underdog) Narratives Increase the Punishment of Corporate Moral Transgressions: When Dominance is a Liability and Prestige is an Asset24
Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Boundary Conditions of Subjectivity in Diversity and Inclusion Discourse on Investment Bank Websites24
Understanding Multiple Perspectives on Social Value in Business: An Integrative Review and Typology24
Trees in the Forest: How Do Family Owners Make CSR Decisions in Business Groups?24
On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation24
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Will a Moral Follower Please Stand Up (to the Machiavellian Leader)? The Effects of Machiavellian Leadership on Moral Anger and Whistleblowing24
Silenced by Incivility24
The Normative Value of Making a Positive Contribution–Benefiting Others as a Core Dimension of Meaningful Work24
Why are Men More Likely to Morally Disengage Under Job Stress than Women? Evidence from Resting-state fMRI24
Relational HR Practices in Malaysian SMEs: An Ethics of Care Perspective24
The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Employee Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Employment Contract Type23
Navigating Contestation at the Corporate–Community Boundary: The Agonistic Work of Corporate Community Engagement Practitioners in Extractivist Projects23
Is Mediation a Shortcut to Deter Financial Fraud? Evidence from the Mediation Scheme in China23
Make it Right: Regulatory Intervention in Managers’ Misconduct and Corporate Risk22
(In)vulnerable Managers in an Immigration Context22
When Your Leader Just Does Not Make Any Sense: Conceptualizing Inconsistent Leadership22
Temporality and Meaningful Entrepreneurship22
‘Should I Tell?’ Moral Reflexivity in 14 Whistleblower Autobiographies22
Putting Standing to Work: Does Hypocrisy Undermine a Supervisor’s Moral Standing to Blame Employees?22
A Contribution to Sustainable Human Resource Development in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic22
The Dual Faces of Leadership: CEOs’ Dark and Light Traits in Shaping Business Ethical Climate and Sustainability22
Sex Robots: Are We Ready for Them? An Exploration of the Psychological Mechanisms Underlying People’s Receptiveness of Sex Robots21
The Impact of Visual Perspectives in Advertisements on Consumers’ Reactions to Close-to-Expiry Food21
Ethical Implications of Acceleration: Perspectives From Health Professionals21
Narcissism Dynamics and Auditor Skepticism21
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Ethics-Oriented HRM Systems, Moral Attentiveness, and Deviant Workplace Behavior21
Pure Altruism or Warm-Glow Altruism? Altruistic Motivation and Gender Differences in Socially Responsible Investment20
When Aspirational Talk Backfires: The Role of Moral Judgements in Employees’ Hypocrisy Interpretation20
The ethical challenges of teaching business ethics: ethical sensemaking through the Goffmanian lens20
Geographic Concentration of Institutional Blockholders and Workplace Safety Violations20
Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships20
Leadership and Workplace Aggression: A Meta-analysis20
Female Management Representation and Corporate Financial Fraud: Do Local Gender Norms Play a Role?20
The Metrics of Ethics and the Ethics of Metrics20
Clearing the Smoke: Regulations, Moral Legitimacy, and Performance in the U.S. Tobacco Industry19
Reviewing Paradox Theory in Corporate Sustainability Toward a Systems Perspective19
Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises19
The Moral Foundations of Vaccine Passports19
Value Creating Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies of Family and Non-Family Firms: An Interventionist Perspective19
Gifts, Corporate Policies, and Individual Morality in UK’s Alternative Real Estate Lending Market19
When Play at Work Can Foster Harassment-Based Norms: Exploring Moral Disengagement During Social Play19
The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate19
Ethical Consumers and Low-Income Sellers on China’s Reward-Based Crowdfunding Platforms: Are Poverty Alleviation Campaigns More Successful?19
Social Credit and Trade Credit: A Coevolutionary Perspective19
Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO Led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives19
How Ethical Leadership and Ethical Self-Leadership Enhance the Effects of Idiosyncratic Deals on Salesperson Work Engagement and Performance19
The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia–Ukraine War18
Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship: What is the Role of the Founders’ Entrepreneurial Background?18
Business Firms as Moral Agents: A Kantian Response to the Corporate Autonomy Problem18
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
Constructing a ‘Different’ Strength: A Feminist Exploration of Vulnerability, Ethical Agency and Care18
Signaling Effects of CSR Performance on Cross-border Alliance Formation18
Angel Investors’ Political Ideology and Investments in Women-Owned Ventures18
How and When Does Employee Creativity Relate to Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior? Unmasking the Negative Side of Organizational Creativity18
Building Common Ground: How Facilitators Bridge Between Diverging Groups in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue18
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How and When Machiavellian Leaders Demonstrate Strategic Abuse18
Is Work an Act of Worship? The Impact of Implicit Religious Beliefs on Work Ethic in Secular vs. Religious Cultures18
Navigating the Ambiguity of Impact Investing: How Impact Venture Capitalists Access New Markets, Founders, and Capital18
The Interplay Between Islamic Work Ethic, Unethical Pro Behaviors, and Moral Identity Internalization: The Moderating Role of Religiosity17
Between Intensity and Diversity: Leveraging the Role of Place in Cross-Sector Partnerships17
At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice17
Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States17
Responsible Management-as-Practice: Mobilizing a Posthumanist Approach17
Exploring the Antecedents of Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior (UPB): A Meta-Analysis17
From Greenwashing to Machinewashing: A Model and Future Directions Derived from Reasoning by Analogy17
Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy17
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and CSR Performance: Evidence from China17
Beyond Common Ground: Dialogical Responsibility in Sustainable Human Resource Management17
Shhh… Do Gender-Diverse Boards Prioritize Product Market Concerns Over Capital Market Incentives?17
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 conflicts16
Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment16
Correction to: The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research16
Cultivating CSR: The Artistic Influence of Top Executives on Corporate Responsibility16
Experimental Effects of Institutionalizing Co-determination by a Procedurally Fair Bidding Rule16
Generalized Reciprocity and Interfirm Cooperation: A Study of Entrepreneurial Development in Argentina15
Mandating Diversity on the Board of Directors: Do Investors Feel That Gender Quotas Result in Tokenism or Added Value for Firms?15
Taking Stock of Ethics and Compliance Programs as Anticorruption Mechanisms: An Integrative Review15
Bringing Ethical Consumption to the Forefront in Emerging Markets: The Role of Product Categorization15
Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions15
Challenging or Threatening? The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Intelligent Technology Awareness on Accountants’ Unethical Decision-Making15
Robots as Moral Persons: Exploring AI Ethics in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model15
Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership15
Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace: The Contingent Nature of Business-Related Action with Respect to Peace Positive Impacts15
Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory15
Management and Business Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to Special Issue15
Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals15
Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t15
Who are the Empowered Employees: Those with High Work Performance or High Ethical Behavior?15
Authoritarian-Benevolent Leadership and Employee Behaviors: An Examination of the Role of LMX Ambivalence15
How Officials’ Political Incentives Influence Corporate Green Innovation15
A Meta-Analytical Assessment of the Effect of Deontological Evaluations and Teleological Evaluations on Ethical Judgments/Intentions15
Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors15
The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance15
Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors15
Universal Design for the Workplace: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities15
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Corporate Environmental Engagement14
Coevolution of Strategy, Innovation and Ethics14
A Shi’a Islam Approach to Wisdom in Management: A Deep Understanding Opening to Dialogue and Dialectic14
From Fiduciary Duty to Impact Fidelity: Managerial Compensation in Impact Investing14
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
Talking Ethics Early in Health Data Public Private Partnerships14
The Escalation of Organizational Moral Failure in Public Discourse: A Semiotic Analysis of Nokia’s Bochum Plant Closure14
Relative Performance Goals and Management Earnings Guidance14
The Devil is in the Details: Sexual Harassment e-Training Design Choices and Perceived Messenger Integrity14
Don’t Just Trust Your Gut: The Importance of Normative Deliberation to Ethical Decision-Making at Work14
Evolution of Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Hybrid Literature Review and Theoretical Propositions14
A Moral Evaluation of LBOs14
Ethical Tools and the Legalization of Ethical Responsibility in Organizations14
A Libertarian Defense of Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act14
Challenges and Insights from South Asia for Imagining Ethical Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue14
Three Dilemmas of Disabled Employee Voice14
The Interplay Between Supply Chain Transparency and NGO Pressure: A Quantitative Analysis in the Fashion Industry Context14
Totally Administered Heteronomy: Adorno on Work, Leisure, and Politics in the Age of Digital Capitalism14
From Deception to Rejection: Unraveling the Impact of Workplace Cheating Behavior on Coworker Ostracism13
The Impact of Islamic Spirituality on Job Satisfaction and Organisational Commitment: Exploring Mediation and Moderation Impact13
Is It Time to Reclaim the ‘Ethics’ in Business Ethics Education?13
Entitlement Versus Obligation: The Role of Attributed Motives in Subordinate Reactions to Leader Leniency13
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