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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program306
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft261
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases208
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum178
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem142
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning120
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding104
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit101
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance101
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes100
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond96
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study94
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior92
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders78
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities77
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching75
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility74
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment74
The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework73
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue71
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity69
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes69
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists68
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective67
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting67
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America67
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective66
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda65
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?64
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders63
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications62
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation61
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers59
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision58
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda58
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions56
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience54
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective51
Parrying Diversity-Hostility and Ethical Dilemmas of Organizing Inclusion51
When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms50
Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence49
Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language49
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers49
The Behavior of Organization in Economic Crisis: Integration, Interpretation, and Research Development48
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity48
Organizations’ Management Configurations Towards Environment and Market Performances47
Corporate Social Innovation in Developing Countries47
Different Reality? Generations’ and Religious Groups’ Views of Spirituality Policies in the Workplace47
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees47
Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition47
Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024)46
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms46
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life46
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation45
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors45
Governing Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling: The Effect of the Governance Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling44
Navigating Ethical Waters: Trade Credit Provisions for Related-Party Customers44
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Implementation: A Review and a Research Agenda Towards an Integrative Framework44
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice44
The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations43
Against the Sale of Homeopathy (and Other Ineffective Medicines)42
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 Primary41
How and When Leaders’ Perceptions of Team Politics Influence Justice Rule Adherence: A Moral Self-Regulation Perspective41
The Impact of CEOs’ Personal Traits on Organisational Performance: Evidence from Faith-Based Charity Organisations40
Encouraging Individual Contributions to Net-Zero Organizations: Effects of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Social Norms39
Responsible Management-as-Process of Smoothing–Striating: Transcending Freedom or Control Contingencies39
How do Russian National Systems of Institutional Absences Shape Insensitive Corporate Environmental Violence of a Russian Extractive Multinational Corporation?39
A Critique of Utilitarian Trust: The Case of the Dutch Insurance Sector39
The Business of Stealing Futures: Race, Gender, and the Student Debt Regime39
Is the Prisoner’s Dilemma an Adequate Concept for Ethical Analysis in Healthcare? An Original Institutional Economic Rejoinder39
Organizational Wrongdoing within the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Integrative Review38
Correction to: The Riskification of Internal Auditors’ Ethical Deliberation: An Emerging Third Logic Between Norms and Values?38
Felt or Thought: Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Exploitative Leadership and Abusive Supervision37
Deliberating with the Autocrats? A Case Study on the Limitations and Potential of Political CSR in a Non-Democratic Context37
Historical Ownership of Family Firms and Corporate Fraud36
Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers36
Right From the Start: The Association Between Ethical Leadership, Trust Primacy, and Customer Loyalty36
Evaluating Negotiators Who Deceptively Communicate Anger or Happiness: On the Importance of Morality, Sociability, and Competence36
Motivating Business Students for Civic Education: Design Principles for Aligning Civic Engagement Programs with Student Motivation36
Teaching Race in Business Schools: The Challenges and Possibilities of Anti-Racist Education36
Leader-Expressed Humility: Development and Validation of Scales Based on a Comprehensive Conceptualization35
Ethical Complexity of Social Change: Negotiated Actions of a Social Enterprise35
Lying and Cheating the Company: The Positive and Negative Effects of Corporate Activism on Unethical Consumer Behavior35
Supporting and Humiliating Dignity with Biometric Technologies: An Affordance Perspective35
Local Understandings of Decent Work and the Legitimacy of Global Labour Standards: Insights from Garment Suppliers in Egypt and Jordan35
Moral Judgments in the Age of Artificial Intelligence35
Institutional Theory in Social Entrepreneurship: A Review and Consideration of Ethics35
Impact of Directors’ Network on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from China35
Sour Grapes: Exploring Unfavorable Reactions of Employees Who Observe Leader Leniency34
In Search of Regained Time? Autism and Organizational [A]temporality in the Light of Humanistic Management34
Are Fairness Perceptions Related to Moral Licensing Behavior? Evidence From Tax Compliance33
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
Virtual Special Issue on Corporate Governance and Ethics: What’s Next?33
Beyond Inspiration Porn: Effects of Message Framing on Brand Authenticity and Community Support in Marketing Disabled Athletes32
Religiosity and Gender Dynamics in Executive Leadership: Impact on CEO Appointments and Pay Disparities32
Receiving Social Support Motivates Long-Term Prosocial Behavior32
Aesthetic Encounters, Canines, and Care: New Multispecies Methodological Avenues in Organizational and Business Ethics32
Being a Parent Helps Being a Benevolent Leader: A Mixed-Method Approach31
Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?31
Mitigating Moral Emotions After Crises: A Reconceptualization of Organizational Responses31
Peer Reaction to Manager Stewardship Behavior: Crediting or Stigmatizing the Behavior?31
The Dual Spillover Spiraling Effects of Family Incivility on Workplace Interpersonal Deviance: From the Conservation of Resources Perspective30
Unveiling Her Efforts: Gender Diversity’s Impact on Performance Commitments in M&As30
Buffering or Aggravating Effect? Examining the Effects of Prior Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Social Irresponsibility29
Aesthetic Injustice29
How Religiosity Affects Attitudes Toward Brands That Utilize LGBTQ-Themed Advertising29
Orchestration of Care: Exploring the Active Role of Disabled Workers in Creation of Socio-Material Care Arrangements at Work29
Can We Trust the Trust Words in 10-Ks?29
Tom Angier (ed.), Review of MacIntyre’s After Virtue29
The Ethics of Sharing: Does Generosity Erode the Competitive Advantage of an Ecosystem Firm?29
Methodological Decolonisation and Local Epistemologies in Business Ethics Research28
From Compliance to Commitment: Examining the Influence of Corporate Governance and Social Performance on Firms’ Circular Economy Initiatives28
Organizations as Spaces for Caring: A Case of an Anti-trafficking Organization in India28
Shared Value Creation in Equivocal CSR Environments: A Configuration Approach28
Decolonizing Deliberative Democracy: Perspectives from Below27
Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics27
Greenwashing or Striving to Persist: An Alternative Explanation of a Loose Coupling Between Corporate Environmental Commitments and Outcomes26
Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct26
Correction to: Guilty by Association: Spillover of Regulative Violations and Repair Efforts to Alliance Partners26
CEO Narcissism and Credit Ratings26
Correction to: Toward Understanding Employees 'Responses to Leaders' Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: An Outcome Favorability Perspective26
Does CEO Risk-Aversion Affect Carbon Emission?26
Authentic Brand Ethicality: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation in the Fashion Industry26
Mapping Spiritual Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Synthesis of Past Milestones and Future Research Agenda26
Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Boundary Conditions of Subjectivity in Diversity and Inclusion Discourse on Investment Bank Websites25
Organizational Top Dog (vs. Underdog) Narratives Increase the Punishment of Corporate Moral Transgressions: When Dominance is a Liability and Prestige is an Asset25
Leadership and Workplace Aggression: A Meta-analysis25
The Normative Value of Making a Positive Contribution–Benefiting Others as a Core Dimension of Meaningful Work25
Developing, Validating, and Applying a Measure of Human Quality Treatment25
The Metrics of Ethics and the Ethics of Metrics25
Why are Men More Likely to Morally Disengage Under Job Stress than Women? Evidence from Resting-state fMRI25
On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation25
When Your Leader Just Does Not Make Any Sense: Conceptualizing Inconsistent Leadership25
A Contribution to Sustainable Human Resource Development in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic24
Silenced by Incivility24
Will a Moral Follower Please Stand Up (to the Machiavellian Leader)? The Effects of Machiavellian Leadership on Moral Anger and Whistleblowing24
Reviewers 202424
Relational HR Practices in Malaysian SMEs: An Ethics of Care Perspective24
Understanding Multiple Perspectives on Social Value in Business: An Integrative Review and Typology24
Is Mediation a Shortcut to Deter Financial Fraud? Evidence from the Mediation Scheme in China24
‘Should I Tell?’ Moral Reflexivity in 14 Whistleblower Autobiographies23
Make it Right: Regulatory Intervention in Managers’ Misconduct and Corporate Risk23
(In)vulnerable Managers in an Immigration Context23
The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Employee Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Employment Contract Type23
Temporality and Meaningful Entrepreneurship23
Navigating Contestation at the Corporate–Community Boundary: The Agonistic Work of Corporate Community Engagement Practitioners in Extractivist Projects23
The ethical challenges of teaching business ethics: ethical sensemaking through the Goffmanian lens22
Female Management Representation and Corporate Financial Fraud: Do Local Gender Norms Play a Role?22
Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships22
Sex Robots: Are We Ready for Them? An Exploration of the Psychological Mechanisms Underlying People’s Receptiveness of Sex Robots22
The Impact of Visual Perspectives in Advertisements on Consumers’ Reactions to Close-to-Expiry Food22
Narcissism Dynamics and Auditor Skepticism22
When Aspirational Talk Backfires: The Role of Moral Judgements in Employees’ Hypocrisy Interpretation22
Do the Ends Justify the Means? Variation in the Distributive and Procedural Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms21
Pure Altruism or Warm-Glow Altruism? Altruistic Motivation and Gender Differences in Socially Responsible Investment21
“Doing the Right Thing” and “Making a Difference”: The Role of Personal Ethical Values in Diversity and Inclusion Consulting21
Putting Standing to Work: Does Hypocrisy Undermine a Supervisor’s Moral Standing to Blame Employees?21
Geographic Concentration of Institutional Blockholders and Workplace Safety Violations21
Why and When Do Employees Feel Guilty About Observing Supervisor Ostracism? The Critical Roles of Observers’ Silence Behavior and Leader–Member Exchange Quality21
The Dual Faces of Leadership: CEOs’ Dark and Light Traits in Shaping Business Ethical Climate and Sustainability21
The Impact of Work-Related Use of Information and Communication Technologies After Hours on Time Theft21
Ethical Implications of Acceleration: Perspectives From Health Professionals20
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Ethics-Oriented HRM Systems, Moral Attentiveness, and Deviant Workplace Behavior20
Social Credit and Trade Credit: A Coevolutionary Perspective20
Trees in the Forest: How Do Family Owners Make CSR Decisions in Business Groups?20
Virtue Ethics in Marketing: The Art of Crafting Tragic Brand Stories20
Clearing the Smoke: Regulations, Moral Legitimacy, and Performance in the U.S. Tobacco Industry20
Reviewing Paradox Theory in Corporate Sustainability Toward a Systems Perspective20
Digital and Disembedded? Questioning the Territorial Embeddedness of Local Digital Platforms20
Value Creating Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies of Family and Non-Family Firms: An Interventionist Perspective20
The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate19
Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO Led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives19
Angel Investors’ Political Ideology and Investments in Women-Owned Ventures19
How Ethical Leadership and Ethical Self-Leadership Enhance the Effects of Idiosyncratic Deals on Salesperson Work Engagement and Performance19
Business Firms as Moral Agents: A Kantian Response to the Corporate Autonomy Problem19
Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises19
Gifts, Corporate Policies, and Individual Morality in UK’s Alternative Real Estate Lending Market19
Change in Rhetoric but not in Action? Framing of the Ethical Issue of Modern Slavery in a UK Sector at High Risk of Labor Exploitation19
How and When Does Employee Creativity Relate to Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior? Unmasking the Negative Side of Organizational Creativity19
Ethical Consumers and Low-Income Sellers on China’s Reward-Based Crowdfunding Platforms: Are Poverty Alleviation Campaigns More Successful?19
Beyond Common Ground: Dialogical Responsibility in Sustainable Human Resource Management19
Navigating the Ambiguity of Impact Investing: How Impact Venture Capitalists Access New Markets, Founders, and Capital19
When Play at Work Can Foster Harassment-Based Norms: Exploring Moral Disengagement During Social Play19
Is Work an Act of Worship? The Impact of Implicit Religious Beliefs on Work Ethic in Secular vs. Religious Cultures18
Signaling Effects of CSR Performance on Cross-border Alliance Formation18
Responsible Management-as-Practice: Mobilizing a Posthumanist Approach18
Building Common Ground: How Facilitators Bridge Between Diverging Groups in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue18
The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia–Ukraine War18
How Firms Adapt to Rising Temperatures: Evidence from U.S. Establishments18
From Greenwashing to Machinewashing: A Model and Future Directions Derived from Reasoning by Analogy18
The Moral Foundations of Vaccine Passports18
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How and When Machiavellian Leaders Demonstrate Strategic Abuse18
The Interplay Between Islamic Work Ethic, Unethical Pro Behaviors, and Moral Identity Internalization: The Moderating Role of Religiosity18
Exploring the Antecedents of Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior (UPB): A Meta-Analysis18
Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship: What is the Role of the Founders’ Entrepreneurial Background?17
Ethical Tools and the Legalization of Ethical Responsibility in Organizations17
A Meta-Analytical Assessment of the Effect of Deontological Evaluations and Teleological Evaluations on Ethical Judgments/Intentions17
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and CSR Performance: Evidence from China17
Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States17
Authoritarian-Benevolent Leadership and Employee Behaviors: An Examination of the Role of LMX Ambivalence17
Constructing a ‘Different’ Strength: A Feminist Exploration of Vulnerability, Ethical Agency and Care17
Between Intensity and Diversity: Leveraging the Role of Place in Cross-Sector Partnerships17
Shhh… Do Gender-Diverse Boards Prioritize Product Market Concerns Over Capital Market Incentives?17
Cultivating CSR: The Artistic Influence of Top Executives on Corporate Responsibility16
How Identity Work Drives Ethical Conduct in Organizations: The Case of Organizational Citizenship Behavior16
Correction to: The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research16
At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice16
Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment16
Correction to: Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts16
Experimental Effects of Institutionalizing Co-determination by a Procedurally Fair Bidding Rule16
Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t15
Management and Business Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to Special Issue15
Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory15
The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance15
Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace: The Contingent Nature of Business-Related Action with Respect to Peace Positive Impacts15
Robots as Moral Persons: Exploring AI Ethics in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model15
Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership15
Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions15
Bringing Ethical Consumption to the Forefront in Emerging Markets: The Role of Product Categorization15
Generalized Reciprocity and Interfirm Cooperation: A Study of Entrepreneurial Development in Argentina15
Taking Stock of Ethics and Compliance Programs as Anticorruption Mechanisms: An Integrative Review15
Mandating Diversity on the Board of Directors: Do Investors Feel That Gender Quotas Result in Tokenism or Added Value for Firms?15
Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy14
Universal Design for the Workplace: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities14
Challenges and Insights from South Asia for Imagining Ethical Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue14
Coevolution of Strategy, Innovation and Ethics14
Don’t Just Trust Your Gut: The Importance of Normative Deliberation to Ethical Decision-Making at Work14
‘I Can Only Do My Best and Leave the Rest to God”: Religious/Spiritual Coping Strategies of African Nurses in the UK14
Who Do I (Dis)Trust and Monitor for Ethical Misconduct? Status, Power, and the Structural Paradox14
A Shi’a Islam Approach to Wisdom in Management: A Deep Understanding Opening to Dialogue and Dialectic14
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Corporate Environmental Engagement14
How Officials’ Political Incentives Influence Corporate Green Innovation14
Challenging or Threatening? The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Intelligent Technology Awareness on Accountants’ Unethical Decision-Making14
A Libertarian Defense of Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act14
Three Dilemmas of Disabled Employee Voice14
Regulatory Entrepreneurship, Fair Competition, and Obeying the Law14
Investee Peers and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from U.S. Listed Firms14
Vanishing Boycott Impetus: Why and How Consumer Participation in a Boycott Decreases Over Time14
Evolution of Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Hybrid Literature Review and Theoretical Propositions14
Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals14
Who are the Empowered Employees: Those with High Work Performance or High Ethical Behavior?14
Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors14
Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors14
The Escalation of Organizational Moral Failure in Public Discourse: A Semiotic Analysis of Nokia’s Bochum Plant Closure14
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: The Impact of Job Insecurity on Workplace Cheating Behavior14
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
Relative Performance Goals and Management Earnings Guidance14
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