Journal of Business Ethics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Business Ethics is 12. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
From Critique to Action: A Capability Approach to Reimagining Human Rights Due Diligence306
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft208
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases153
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond146
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders126
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem122
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit117
Good Intentions Gone Awry: How and When Perceived Platform CSR Toward Customers Undermines Gig Workers’ Service Delivery Quality116
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities114
The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework112
Does the Moral Norm Initiative Affect Corporate Tax Compliance? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China96
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum87
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America84
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists74
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program74
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective72
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching71
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment69
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior69
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study68
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility64
The Limits of the Ethical Responsibilities of Companies: Using Corporate Social Contract Theory to Identify Boundary Principles63
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue61
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance60
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes60
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity59
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting59
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning59
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes58
Parrying Diversity-Hostility and Ethical Dilemmas of Organizing Inclusion56
Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition56
CEO Awards and Audit Opinion Shopping in Non-Winning Peer Firms56
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors55
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity55
Unethical Organizational Practices as a Stressor, Mediated by Moral Emotions and Moderated by Ethical Leadership55
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders54
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice54
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda52
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective52
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms52
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?51
A Narrative Enquiry About Expatriates’ Situated Moral Agency in Confronting Ethical Problems51
Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024)48
Navigating Ethical Waters: Trade Credit Provisions for Related-Party Customers47
Speaking Across Silences: Academic Freedom, Care, and Responsibility47
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers47
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life46
Unintended Consequences: The Effects of Cigarette Graphic Health Warnings on Electronic Cigarette Risk Perceptions and Intentions45
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers44
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective43
AI’s Hidden Price: AI Tools Reduce Donor Engagement Through Extrinsic Motivation Inferences42
Organizations’ Management Configurations Towards Environment and Market Performances41
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience41
Do Venture Capitalists Replace Women with Men to Lead Portfolio Companies?40
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions40
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation40
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation40
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees40
Governing Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling: The Effect of the Governance Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling39
Spiritual Leadership and the Pursuit of Greater Good: The Intervening Role of Employees’ Experience of Meaningful Work39
Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence39
The World Economic Forum: Country Competitiveness—Nonsense Without Accountability?39
Against the Sale of Homeopathy (and Other Ineffective Medicines)38
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda38
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision38
Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language38
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications38
Is the Prisoner’s Dilemma an Adequate Concept for Ethical Analysis in Healthcare? An Original Institutional Economic Rejoinder37
Deliberating with the Autocrats? A Case Study on the Limitations and Potential of Political CSR in a Non-Democratic Context36
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 Primary36
Death, Retirement, or Redeployment for Unproductive Farm Animals? Dispositional Tensions in Organizational Routines36
How do Russian National Systems of Institutional Absences Shape Insensitive Corporate Environmental Violence of a Russian Extractive Multinational Corporation?36
Correction to: The Riskification of Internal Auditors’ Ethical Deliberation: An Emerging Third Logic Between Norms and Values?35
The Invisible Racialized Minority Entrepreneur: Using White Solipsism to Explain the White Space35
The Dark Side of Source Credibility: Differential Effectiveness of Credibility Cues in Fraudulent Versus Legitimate Crowdfunding Campaigns35
Historical Ownership of Family Firms and Corporate Fraud35
Can Purpose and Professional Advancement Coexist? Review of Make It Meaningful: How to Find Purpose in Life and Work by Debbie Haski-Leventhal34
Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers34
Responsible Management-as-Process of Smoothing–Striating: Transcending Freedom or Control Contingencies34
Teaching Race in Business Schools: The Challenges and Possibilities of Anti-Racist Education33
Right From the Start: The Association Between Ethical Leadership, Trust Primacy, and Customer Loyalty32
Evaluating Negotiators Who Deceptively Communicate Anger or Happiness: On the Importance of Morality, Sociability, and Competence32
Understanding Failed Ethical Consumption Through a Socio-Cultural Lens: An Examination of Online Fashion Shopping32
The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations32
From Welfare to Well-Groomed: How Income Conditions Influence Moral Perception of Beauty Consumption31
Organizational Wrongdoing within the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Integrative Review31
Let’s Talk Stigma Out: An Interaction-Based Process of Stigma Recognition and Removal within Organizational Fields31
How and When Leaders’ Perceptions of Team Politics Influence Justice Rule Adherence: A Moral Self-Regulation Perspective31
Local Understandings of Decent Work and the Legitimacy of Global Labour Standards: Insights from Garment Suppliers in Egypt and Jordan31
The Impact of CEOs’ Personal Traits on Organisational Performance: Evidence from Faith-Based Charity Organisations31
Leader-Expressed Humility: Development and Validation of Scales Based on a Comprehensive Conceptualization30
Supporting and Humiliating Dignity with Biometric Technologies: An Affordance Perspective30
Lying and Cheating the Company: The Positive and Negative Effects of Corporate Activism on Unethical Consumer Behavior30
The Business of Stealing Futures: Race, Gender, and the Student Debt Regime30
Green Talent, Greener Outcomes? The Role of Governance in Translating Green Hiring into Substantive Environmental Action30
Pathogen Stress Theory in Business Ethics: Bio-ecological Influences on Firms’ Environmental Sustainability Practices30
Motivating Business Students for Civic Education: Design Principles for Aligning Civic Engagement Programs with Student Motivation29
Institutional Theory in Social Entrepreneurship: A Review and Consideration of Ethics29
Felt or Thought: Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Exploitative Leadership and Abusive Supervision29
Encouraging Individual Contributions to Net-Zero Organizations: Effects of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Social Norms29
Tom Angier (ed.), Review of MacIntyre’s After Virtue28
One Move, Two Gains: Commercial Kickbacks Suppression and Corporate Tax Avoidance28
Virtual Special Issue on Corporate Governance and Ethics: What’s Next?27
Orchestration of Care: Exploring the Active Role of Disabled Workers in Creation of Socio-Material Care Arrangements at Work27
Receiving Social Support Motivates Long-Term Prosocial Behavior27
Seeing Opportunities From Conflicts: Exploring Third Parties’ Mixed Reactions to Ethical Conflict in the Workplace27
Are Fairness Perceptions Related to Moral Licensing Behavior? Evidence From Tax Compliance27
Beyond Inspiration Porn: Effects of Message Framing on Brand Authenticity and Community Support in Marketing Disabled Athletes27
Against Spiritual Leadership in (For-Profit) Organizations26
Counter-Accounts in Accountability Relationships: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Reporting on Rio Tinto’s Destruction of Indigenous Heritage Sites at the Juukan Gorge26
From Price to Quantity: Redefining How Consumers Pay the Ethical Premium26
The Folk Ethics of Commodification: An Empirical Investigation into Moral Attitudes Against Market Transactions26
Aesthetic Injustice26
Religiosity and Gender Dynamics in Executive Leadership: Impact on CEO Appointments and Pay Disparities26
Reshaping the Space of Ethics for Expert Work: Deliberative Approaches for Deploying Artificial Intelligence in Auditing26
Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct25
Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics25
Shared Value Creation in Equivocal CSR Environments: A Configuration Approach25
Can We Trust the Trust Words in 10-Ks?25
Greenwashing or Striving to Persist: An Alternative Explanation of a Loose Coupling Between Corporate Environmental Commitments and Outcomes25
CEO Narcissism and Credit Ratings25
When Benefits Backfire: The Impact of Social Insurance Contributions on Product Quality Compliance25
How Religiosity Affects Attitudes Toward Brands That Utilize LGBTQ-Themed Advertising24
Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?24
Methodological Decolonisation and Local Epistemologies in Business Ethics Research24
The Ethics of Sharing: Does Generosity Erode the Competitive Advantage of an Ecosystem Firm?24
From Compliance to Commitment: Examining the Influence of Corporate Governance and Social Performance on Firms’ Circular Economy Initiatives24
In Search of Regained Time? Autism and Organizational [A]temporality in the Light of Humanistic Management24
Aesthetic Encounters, Canines, and Care: New Multispecies Methodological Avenues in Organizational and Business Ethics24
Being a Parent Helps Being a Benevolent Leader: A Mixed-Method Approach23
Unveiling Her Efforts: Gender Diversity’s Impact on Performance Commitments in M&As23
Digital and Disembedded? Questioning the Territorial Embeddedness of Local Digital Platforms23
Sour Grapes: Exploring Unfavorable Reactions of Employees Who Observe Leader Leniency23
Mitigating Moral Emotions After Crises: A Reconceptualization of Organizational Responses23
Developing, Validating, and Applying a Measure of Human Quality Treatment23
The Dual Spillover Spiraling Effects of Family Incivility on Workplace Interpersonal Deviance: From the Conservation of Resources Perspective23
Pure Altruism or Warm-Glow Altruism? Altruistic Motivation and Gender Differences in Socially Responsible Investment22
Cultivating Integrity? The Role of Employee Directors in Mitigating Corporate Financial Misconduct22
When Darkness Dims the Social Light: The Dark Triad and Prosociality in Latin America22
“Doing the Right Thing” and “Making a Difference”: The Role of Personal Ethical Values in Diversity and Inclusion Consulting22
Organizational Top Dog (vs. Underdog) Narratives Increase the Punishment of Corporate Moral Transgressions: When Dominance is a Liability and Prestige is an Asset22
Relational HR Practices in Malaysian SMEs: An Ethics of Care Perspective22
Trees in the Forest: How Do Family Owners Make CSR Decisions in Business Groups?22
Female Management Representation and Corporate Financial Fraud: Do Local Gender Norms Play a Role?21
Narcissism Dynamics and Auditor Skepticism21
Reviewers 202421
Understanding Multiple Perspectives on Social Value in Business: An Integrative Review and Typology21
(In)vulnerable Managers in an Immigration Context21
The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Employee Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Employment Contract Type21
Can Voluntary Regulation Promote Corporate Environmental Investments? Evidence from Green Factory Accreditation21
Is Mediation a Shortcut to Deter Financial Fraud? Evidence from the Mediation Scheme in China21
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Ethics-Oriented HRM Systems, Moral Attentiveness, and Deviant Workplace Behavior21
Navigating Contestation at the Corporate–Community Boundary: The Agonistic Work of Corporate Community Engagement Practitioners in Extractivist Projects21
On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation21
Will a Moral Follower Please Stand Up (to the Machiavellian Leader)? The Effects of Machiavellian Leadership on Moral Anger and Whistleblowing21
Make it Right: Regulatory Intervention in Managers’ Misconduct and Corporate Risk20
Virtue Ethics in Marketing: The Art of Crafting Tragic Brand Stories20
Silenced by Incivility20
Putting Standing to Work: Does Hypocrisy Undermine a Supervisor’s Moral Standing to Blame Employees?20
Correction to: Toward Understanding Employees 'Responses to Leaders' Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: An Outcome Favorability Perspective20
Correction to: Understanding Failed Ethical Consumption Through a Socio-Cultural Lens: An Examination of Online Fashion Shopping20
Why and When Do Employees Feel Guilty About Observing Supervisor Ostracism? The Critical Roles of Observers’ Silence Behavior and Leader–Member Exchange Quality20
The Impact of Visual Perspectives in Advertisements on Consumers’ Reactions to Close-to-Expiry Food20
Why are Men More Likely to Morally Disengage Under Job Stress than Women? Evidence from Resting-state fMRI20
‘Should I Tell?’ Moral Reflexivity in 14 Whistleblower Autobiographies20
A Contribution to Sustainable Human Resource Development in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic20
Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships20
Authentic Brand Ethicality: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation in the Fashion Industry19
The Impact of Work-Related Use of Information and Communication Technologies After Hours on Time Theft19
When Consumer Autonomy is Compromised: Adopting a Dual-Type View to Understand AI-Driven Marketing and Its Impact on Young Consumers’ Ethical Behavior19
The ethical challenges of teaching business ethics: ethical sensemaking through the Goffmanian lens19
Temporality and Meaningful Entrepreneurship19
Mapping Spiritual Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Synthesis of Past Milestones and Future Research Agenda19
Leadership and Workplace Aggression: A Meta-analysis19
The Dual Faces of Leadership: CEOs’ Dark and Light Traits in Shaping Business Ethical Climate and Sustainability19
Ethical Implications of Acceleration: Perspectives From Health Professionals19
The Normative Value of Making a Positive Contribution–Benefiting Others as a Core Dimension of Meaningful Work19
Geographic Concentration of Institutional Blockholders and Workplace Safety Violations19
Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Boundary Conditions of Subjectivity in Diversity and Inclusion Discourse on Investment Bank Websites18
My Oppressive Past- and Present-Day Vulnerability: Understanding How and When Authoritarian Leadership Adversely Impacts Black Employees at Work18
Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises18
The Moral Foundations of Vaccine Passports18
Ethical Consumers and Low-Income Sellers on China’s Reward-Based Crowdfunding Platforms: Are Poverty Alleviation Campaigns More Successful?18
Gifts, Corporate Policies, and Individual Morality in UK’s Alternative Real Estate Lending Market18
Value Creating Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies of Family and Non-Family Firms: An Interventionist Perspective18
The Business–Social Paradox of ESG Investing: Responding to Persistent Tensions over Time18
When Play at Work Can Foster Harassment-Based Norms: Exploring Moral Disengagement During Social Play18
How Firms Adapt to Rising Temperatures: Evidence from U.S. Establishments18
Navigating Ethical Paths with “Less”: Unveiling the Simplicity-Naturalness Association and its Impact on Green Consumption18
Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship: What is the Role of the Founders’ Entrepreneurial Background?18
The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate18
A Social Exchange Perspective of Leader Nepotism: The Roles of Kinship and Self-Interest18
How Ethical Leadership and Ethical Self-Leadership Enhance the Effects of Idiosyncratic Deals on Salesperson Work Engagement and Performance18
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How and When Machiavellian Leaders Demonstrate Strategic Abuse17
Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO Led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives17
Spouse Gets Angry, Company Suffers: The Impact of Spousal Anger Expression on Employee Unethical Pro-Family Behavior17
Angel Investors’ Political Ideology and Investments in Women-Owned Ventures17
How and When Does Employee Creativity Relate to Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior? Unmasking the Negative Side of Organizational Creativity17
Beyond Common Ground: Dialogical Responsibility in Sustainable Human Resource Management17
Divine Limitation or Enabler? Understanding How Religion Influences the Relationship Between Ethics and Creativity17
The Interplay Between Islamic Work Ethic, Unethical Pro Behaviors, and Moral Identity Internalization: The Moderating Role of Religiosity17
Is Work an Act of Worship? The Impact of Implicit Religious Beliefs on Work Ethic in Secular vs. Religious Cultures17
Navigating the Ambiguity of Impact Investing: How Impact Venture Capitalists Access New Markets, Founders, and Capital17
Clearing the Smoke: Regulations, Moral Legitimacy, and Performance in the U.S. Tobacco Industry17
Turning the Wheels of Justice: How Judicial Reforms Deter Corporate Misconduct in China17
Building Common Ground: How Facilitators Bridge Between Diverging Groups in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue17
The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia–Ukraine War17
Exploring the Antecedents of Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior (UPB): A Meta-Analysis17
Social Credit and Trade Credit: A Coevolutionary Perspective17
Signaling Effects of CSR Performance on Cross-border Alliance Formation17
Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions16
How Identity Work Drives Ethical Conduct in Organizations: The Case of Organizational Citizenship Behavior16
Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment16
Shhh… Do Gender-Diverse Boards Prioritize Product Market Concerns Over Capital Market Incentives?16
At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice16
Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t16
Counterproductive Work Behaviours Help Regain a Sense of Power after a Broken Promise16
Bringing Ethical Consumption to the Forefront in Emerging Markets: The Role of Product Categorization16
Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States16
Experimental Effects of Institutionalizing Co-determination by a Procedurally Fair Bidding Rule16
Toward Social Justification for Pecuniary and Other Externalities: Building on Kogelmann and Carroll’s Intervention16
Community-Based Cooperation and New Management Ideology: Lessons from Thomas Aquinas’ Thought16
Publisher Correction to: Divine Limitation or Enabler? Understanding How Religion Influences the Relationship Between Ethics and Creativity16
Between Intensity and Diversity: Leveraging the Role of Place in Cross-Sector Partnerships16
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
Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy15
Cultivating CSR: The Artistic Influence of Top Executives on Corporate Responsibility15
Correction to: The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research15
Correction: Careless or Clueless? The Lost Promise of Facebook15
Generalized Reciprocity and Interfirm Cooperation: A Study of Entrepreneurial Development in Argentina15
Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors15
Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership15
Authoritarian-Benevolent Leadership and Employee Behaviors: An Examination of the Role of LMX Ambivalence15
Robots as Moral Persons: Exploring AI Ethics in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model15
Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace: The Contingent Nature of Business-Related Action with Respect to Peace Positive Impacts15
Universal Design for the Workplace: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities15
Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors15
Who are the Empowered Employees: Those with High Work Performance or High Ethical Behavior?15
Challenging or Threatening? The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Intelligent Technology Awareness on Accountants’ Unethical Decision-Making15
Ethical Tools and the Legalization of Ethical Responsibility in Organizations15
Good Cops in a Greedy Institution? Dutch Police Officers’ Stories of Compound Moral Injury15
Challenge–Hindrance Stressors, Helping Behavior and Job Performance: Double-Edged Sword of Religiousness14
Evolution of Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Hybrid Literature Review and Theoretical Propositions14
Maintaining “Good” Care: An Articulation Work Perspective on Organizational Ethics in the Healthcare Sector14
A Moral Evaluation of LBOs14
Fiction and Bearing Witness to Corporate Crimes: The Work of Novelists in Business Ethics and Organizational Reform14
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: The Impact of Job Insecurity on Workplace Cheating Behavior14
Detecting Gender Stereotype Biases Against Women Entrepreneurs in Large Language Models14
Girls Help Girls: The Gender Preference of FOF Managers14
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