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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities332
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning292
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study229
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft208
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program158
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue129
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment120
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes115
The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework113
The Limits of the Ethical Responsibilities of Companies: Using Corporate Social Contract Theory to Identify Boundary Principles111
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases102
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance98
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders96
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching90
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America88
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum88
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes85
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit85
Good Intentions Gone Awry: How and When Perceived Platform CSR Toward Customers Undermines Gig Workers’ Service Delivery Quality84
From Critique to Action: A Capability Approach to Reimagining Human Rights Due Diligence79
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility79
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond78
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting77
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem76
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective75
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity71
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists71
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors70
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior70
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation69
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation69
Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024)69
Do Venture Capitalists Replace Women with Men to Lead Portfolio Companies?64
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders64
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective59
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?58
Navigating Ethical Waters: Trade Credit Provisions for Related-Party Customers56
Parrying Diversity-Hostility and Ethical Dilemmas of Organizing Inclusion56
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life55
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms53
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience53
A Narrative Enquiry About Expatriates’ Situated Moral Agency in Confronting Ethical Problems53
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers53
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers52
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda52
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision52
When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms51
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective51
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees51
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity51
Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence50
Organizations’ Management Configurations Towards Environment and Market Performances49
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda49
Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition48
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions47
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice47
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Implementation: A Review and a Research Agenda Towards an Integrative Framework46
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications45
Against the Sale of Homeopathy (and Other Ineffective Medicines)45
Governing Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling: The Effect of the Governance Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling45
Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language45
The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations44
How and When Leaders’ Perceptions of Team Politics Influence Justice Rule Adherence: A Moral Self-Regulation Perspective44
How do Russian National Systems of Institutional Absences Shape Insensitive Corporate Environmental Violence of a Russian Extractive Multinational Corporation?43
Supporting and Humiliating Dignity with Biometric Technologies: An Affordance Perspective43
Correction to: The Riskification of Internal Auditors’ Ethical Deliberation: An Emerging Third Logic Between Norms and Values?43
Is the Prisoner’s Dilemma an Adequate Concept for Ethical Analysis in Healthcare? An Original Institutional Economic Rejoinder43
Motivating Business Students for Civic Education: Design Principles for Aligning Civic Engagement Programs with Student Motivation42
Evaluating Negotiators Who Deceptively Communicate Anger or Happiness: On the Importance of Morality, Sociability, and Competence42
A Critique of Utilitarian Trust: The Case of the Dutch Insurance Sector42
Deliberating with the Autocrats? A Case Study on the Limitations and Potential of Political CSR in a Non-Democratic Context42
Historical Ownership of Family Firms and Corporate Fraud41
Responsible Management-as-Process of Smoothing–Striating: Transcending Freedom or Control Contingencies40
The Impact of CEOs’ Personal Traits on Organisational Performance: Evidence from Faith-Based Charity Organisations40
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
Institutional Theory in Social Entrepreneurship: A Review and Consideration of Ethics39
Local Understandings of Decent Work and the Legitimacy of Global Labour Standards: Insights from Garment Suppliers in Egypt and Jordan39
Ethical Complexity of Social Change: Negotiated Actions of a Social Enterprise39
Teaching Race in Business Schools: The Challenges and Possibilities of Anti-Racist Education38
Right From the Start: The Association Between Ethical Leadership, Trust Primacy, and Customer Loyalty38
Death, Retirement, or Redeployment for Unproductive Farm Animals? Dispositional Tensions in Organizational Routines38
The Business of Stealing Futures: Race, Gender, and the Student Debt Regime38
Impact of Directors’ Network on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from China37
Organizational Wrongdoing within the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Integrative Review37
Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers37
Felt or Thought: Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Exploitative Leadership and Abusive Supervision36
Encouraging Individual Contributions to Net-Zero Organizations: Effects of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Social Norms36
The Invisible Racialized Minority Entrepreneur: Using White Solipsism to Explain the White Space36
Leader-Expressed Humility: Development and Validation of Scales Based on a Comprehensive Conceptualization35
Lying and Cheating the Company: The Positive and Negative Effects of Corporate Activism on Unethical Consumer Behavior35
Moral Judgments in the Age of Artificial Intelligence35
Sour Grapes: Exploring Unfavorable Reactions of Employees Who Observe Leader Leniency34
Unveiling Her Efforts: Gender Diversity’s Impact on Performance Commitments in M&As34
Mitigating Moral Emotions After Crises: A Reconceptualization of Organizational Responses34
In Search of Regained Time? Autism and Organizational [A]temporality in the Light of Humanistic Management33
From Compliance to Commitment: Examining the Influence of Corporate Governance and Social Performance on Firms’ Circular Economy Initiatives33
Sustaining Livelihoods or Saving Lives? Economic System Justification in the Time of COVID-1933
The Folk Ethics of Commodification: An Empirical Investigation into Moral Attitudes Against Market Transactions33
The Ethics of Sharing: Does Generosity Erode the Competitive Advantage of an Ecosystem Firm?33
Aesthetic Encounters, Canines, and Care: New Multispecies Methodological Avenues in Organizational and Business Ethics32
Virtual Special Issue on Corporate Governance and Ethics: What’s Next?32
Religiosity and Gender Dynamics in Executive Leadership: Impact on CEO Appointments and Pay Disparities32
Aesthetic Injustice32
Can We Trust the Trust Words in 10-Ks?31
Methodological Decolonisation and Local Epistemologies in Business Ethics Research30
CEO Narcissism and Credit Ratings30
Beyond Inspiration Porn: Effects of Message Framing on Brand Authenticity and Community Support in Marketing Disabled Athletes30
Orchestration of Care: Exploring the Active Role of Disabled Workers in Creation of Socio-Material Care Arrangements at Work30
Are Fairness Perceptions Related to Moral Licensing Behavior? Evidence From Tax Compliance30
Organizations as Spaces for Caring: A Case of an Anti-trafficking Organization in India29
Shared Value Creation in Equivocal CSR Environments: A Configuration Approach29
Being a Parent Helps Being a Benevolent Leader: A Mixed-Method Approach29
The Dual Spillover Spiraling Effects of Family Incivility on Workplace Interpersonal Deviance: From the Conservation of Resources Perspective29
Reshaping the Space of Ethics for Expert Work: Deliberative Approaches for Deploying Artificial Intelligence in Auditing28
One Move, Two Gains: Commercial Kickbacks Suppression and Corporate Tax Avoidance28
Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct28
From Price to Quantity: Redefining How Consumers Pay the Ethical Premium28
Tom Angier (ed.), Review of MacIntyre’s After Virtue28
How Religiosity Affects Attitudes Toward Brands That Utilize LGBTQ-Themed Advertising28
Greenwashing or Striving to Persist: An Alternative Explanation of a Loose Coupling Between Corporate Environmental Commitments and Outcomes27
Peer Reaction to Manager Stewardship Behavior: Crediting or Stigmatizing the Behavior?27
Does CEO Risk-Aversion Affect Carbon Emission?27
Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?27
On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation26
Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics26
Receiving Social Support Motivates Long-Term Prosocial Behavior26
Correction to: Guilty by Association: Spillover of Regulative Violations and Repair Efforts to Alliance Partners26
Buffering or Aggravating Effect? Examining the Effects of Prior Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Social Irresponsibility26
Correction to: Toward Understanding Employees 'Responses to Leaders' Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: An Outcome Favorability Perspective26
Authentic Brand Ethicality: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation in the Fashion Industry26
The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Employee Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Employment Contract Type25
Geographic Concentration of Institutional Blockholders and Workplace Safety Violations25
When Your Leader Just Does Not Make Any Sense: Conceptualizing Inconsistent Leadership25
Is Mediation a Shortcut to Deter Financial Fraud? Evidence from the Mediation Scheme in China25
When Consumer Autonomy is Compromised: Adopting a Dual-Type View to Understand AI-Driven Marketing and Its Impact on Young Consumers’ Ethical Behavior25
Pure Altruism or Warm-Glow Altruism? Altruistic Motivation and Gender Differences in Socially Responsible Investment25
Sex Robots: Are We Ready for Them? An Exploration of the Psychological Mechanisms Underlying People’s Receptiveness of Sex Robots25
Developing, Validating, and Applying a Measure of Human Quality Treatment25
Silenced by Incivility25
Narcissism Dynamics and Auditor Skepticism24
(In)vulnerable Managers in an Immigration Context24
Putting Standing to Work: Does Hypocrisy Undermine a Supervisor’s Moral Standing to Blame Employees?24
Cultivating Integrity? The Role of Employee Directors in Mitigating Corporate Financial Misconduct24
Ethical Implications of Acceleration: Perspectives From Health Professionals24
Understanding Multiple Perspectives on Social Value in Business: An Integrative Review and Typology23
Will a Moral Follower Please Stand Up (to the Machiavellian Leader)? The Effects of Machiavellian Leadership on Moral Anger and Whistleblowing23
Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships23
The ethical challenges of teaching business ethics: ethical sensemaking through the Goffmanian lens23
Why are Men More Likely to Morally Disengage Under Job Stress than Women? Evidence from Resting-state fMRI23
The Impact of Work-Related Use of Information and Communication Technologies After Hours on Time Theft23
The Impact of Visual Perspectives in Advertisements on Consumers’ Reactions to Close-to-Expiry Food23
Female Management Representation and Corporate Financial Fraud: Do Local Gender Norms Play a Role?23
Digital and Disembedded? Questioning the Territorial Embeddedness of Local Digital Platforms22
Leadership and Workplace Aggression: A Meta-analysis22
The Normative Value of Making a Positive Contribution–Benefiting Others as a Core Dimension of Meaningful Work22
“Doing the Right Thing” and “Making a Difference”: The Role of Personal Ethical Values in Diversity and Inclusion Consulting22
Navigating Contestation at the Corporate–Community Boundary: The Agonistic Work of Corporate Community Engagement Practitioners in Extractivist Projects21
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Ethics-Oriented HRM Systems, Moral Attentiveness, and Deviant Workplace Behavior21
Virtue Ethics in Marketing: The Art of Crafting Tragic Brand Stories21
A Contribution to Sustainable Human Resource Development in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic21
Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Boundary Conditions of Subjectivity in Diversity and Inclusion Discourse on Investment Bank Websites21
The Dual Faces of Leadership: CEOs’ Dark and Light Traits in Shaping Business Ethical Climate and Sustainability21
Trees in the Forest: How Do Family Owners Make CSR Decisions in Business Groups?20
Relational HR Practices in Malaysian SMEs: An Ethics of Care Perspective20
Organizational Top Dog (vs. Underdog) Narratives Increase the Punishment of Corporate Moral Transgressions: When Dominance is a Liability and Prestige is an Asset20
Reviewing Paradox Theory in Corporate Sustainability Toward a Systems Perspective20
Temporality and Meaningful Entrepreneurship20
Mapping Spiritual Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Synthesis of Past Milestones and Future Research Agenda20
Why and When Do Employees Feel Guilty About Observing Supervisor Ostracism? The Critical Roles of Observers’ Silence Behavior and Leader–Member Exchange Quality20
Social Credit and Trade Credit: A Coevolutionary Perspective20
Reviewers 202420
Can Voluntary Regulation Promote Corporate Environmental Investments? Evidence from Green Factory Accreditation20
The Metrics of Ethics and the Ethics of Metrics20
Make it Right: Regulatory Intervention in Managers’ Misconduct and Corporate Risk20
‘Should I Tell?’ Moral Reflexivity in 14 Whistleblower Autobiographies20
How Ethical Leadership and Ethical Self-Leadership Enhance the Effects of Idiosyncratic Deals on Salesperson Work Engagement and Performance19
The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate19
Value Creating Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies of Family and Non-Family Firms: An Interventionist Perspective19
The Moral Foundations of Vaccine Passports19
Clearing the Smoke: Regulations, Moral Legitimacy, and Performance in the U.S. Tobacco Industry19
When Play at Work Can Foster Harassment-Based Norms: Exploring Moral Disengagement During Social Play19
Gifts, Corporate Policies, and Individual Morality in UK’s Alternative Real Estate Lending Market19
Constructing a ‘Different’ Strength: A Feminist Exploration of Vulnerability, Ethical Agency and Care18
Navigating the Ambiguity of Impact Investing: How Impact Venture Capitalists Access New Markets, Founders, and Capital18
Beyond Common Ground: Dialogical Responsibility in Sustainable Human Resource Management18
Angel Investors’ Political Ideology and Investments in Women-Owned Ventures18
The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia–Ukraine War18
Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises18
Navigating Ethical Paths with “Less”: Unveiling the Simplicity-Naturalness Association and its Impact on Green Consumption18
How and When Does Employee Creativity Relate to Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior? Unmasking the Negative Side of Organizational Creativity18
Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship: What is the Role of the Founders’ Entrepreneurial Background?18
Spouse Gets Angry, Company Suffers: The Impact of Spousal Anger Expression on Employee Unethical Pro-Family Behavior17
Signaling Effects of CSR Performance on Cross-border Alliance Formation17
Change in Rhetoric but not in Action? Framing of the Ethical Issue of Modern Slavery in a UK Sector at High Risk of Labor Exploitation17
A Social Exchange Perspective of Leader Nepotism: The Roles of Kinship and Self-Interest17
How Firms Adapt to Rising Temperatures: Evidence from U.S. Establishments17
From Greenwashing to Machinewashing: A Model and Future Directions Derived from Reasoning by Analogy17
Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO Led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives17
Building Common Ground: How Facilitators Bridge Between Diverging Groups in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue17
Exploring the Antecedents of Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior (UPB): A Meta-Analysis17
Business Firms as Moral Agents: A Kantian Response to the Corporate Autonomy Problem17
Experimental Effects of Institutionalizing Co-determination by a Procedurally Fair Bidding Rule16
Challenging or Threatening? The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Intelligent Technology Awareness on Accountants’ Unethical Decision-Making16
The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance16
Shhh… Do Gender-Diverse Boards Prioritize Product Market Concerns Over Capital Market Incentives?16
The Interplay Between Islamic Work Ethic, Unethical Pro Behaviors, and Moral Identity Internalization: The Moderating Role of Religiosity16
Ethical Consumers and Low-Income Sellers on China’s Reward-Based Crowdfunding Platforms: Are Poverty Alleviation Campaigns More Successful?16
Generalized Reciprocity and Interfirm Cooperation: A Study of Entrepreneurial Development in Argentina16
Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions16
Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment16
At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice16
Is Work an Act of Worship? The Impact of Implicit Religious Beliefs on Work Ethic in Secular vs. Religious Cultures16
Taking Stock of Ethics and Compliance Programs as Anticorruption Mechanisms: An Integrative Review16
Correction to: Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts16
Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t16
Robots as Moral Persons: Exploring AI Ethics in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model16
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and CSR Performance: Evidence from China16
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How and When Machiavellian Leaders Demonstrate Strategic Abuse16
How Identity Work Drives Ethical Conduct in Organizations: The Case of Organizational Citizenship Behavior15
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Corporate Environmental Engagement15
Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals15
Universal Design for the Workplace: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities15
Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace: The Contingent Nature of Business-Related Action with Respect to Peace Positive Impacts15
Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States15
Correction to: The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research15
Ethical Tools and the Legalization of Ethical Responsibility in Organizations15
Authoritarian-Benevolent Leadership and Employee Behaviors: An Examination of the Role of LMX Ambivalence15
Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors15
Between Intensity and Diversity: Leveraging the Role of Place in Cross-Sector Partnerships15
Bringing Ethical Consumption to the Forefront in Emerging Markets: The Role of Product Categorization15
Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors15
Toward Social Justification for Pecuniary and Other Externalities: Building on Kogelmann and Carroll’s Intervention15
Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy15
Who are the Empowered Employees: Those with High Work Performance or High Ethical Behavior?15
Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership15
A Meta-Analytical Assessment of the Effect of Deontological Evaluations and Teleological Evaluations on Ethical Judgments/Intentions15
Cultivating CSR: The Artistic Influence of Top Executives on Corporate Responsibility15
Don’t Just Trust Your Gut: The Importance of Normative Deliberation to Ethical Decision-Making at Work14
The Escalation of Organizational Moral Failure in Public Discourse: A Semiotic Analysis of Nokia’s Bochum Plant Closure14
How Officials’ Political Incentives Influence Corporate Green Innovation14
A Libertarian Defense of Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act14
Three Dilemmas of Disabled Employee Voice14
Mandating Diversity on the Board of Directors: Do Investors Feel That Gender Quotas Result in Tokenism or Added Value for Firms?14
Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory14
Coevolution of Strategy, Innovation and Ethics14
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
Challenges and Insights from South Asia for Imagining Ethical Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue14
Relative Performance Goals and Management Earnings Guidance14
The Unethical Consequences of Daily Presenteeism: Schadenfreude and Negative Gossip Toward Peers13
Entitlement Versus Obligation: The Role of Attributed Motives in Subordinate Reactions to Leader Leniency13
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