OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Business Ethics is 46. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Ethical Foundations of the Islamic Financial Industry	258
Organized Decoupling of Management Control Systems: An Exploratory Study of Traders’ Unethical Behavior	226
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance	224
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond	190
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective	168
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities	161
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior	134
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study	109
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft	108
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases	100
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Compliance as a Cost-Effective System of Interaction Between Business and Government	90
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum	86
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes	84
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem	80
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning	79
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists	79
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility	77
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching	77
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program	76
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes	76
Board Gender Diversity and Managerial Obfuscation: Evidence from the Readability of Narrative Disclosure in 10-K Reports	74
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America	74
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment	70
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity	69
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding	67

The Ethics of Financial Market Making and Its Implications for High-Frequency Trading	63
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit	62
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting	58
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue	58
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda	57
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders	57
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life	54
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers	54
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice	54
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience	53
Collective Phronesis in Business Ethics Education and Managerial Practice: A Neo-Aristotelian Analysis	53
Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition	52
Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language	52
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation	51
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda	51
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications	48
The Behavior of Organization in Economic Crisis: Integration, Interpretation, and Research Development	47
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers	47
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation	47
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions	47
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees	46