OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Business Ethics is 49. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities	318
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity	279
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft	218
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding	195
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior	151
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study	125
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem	114
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning	112
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective	109
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment	104
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum	100
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America	98
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond	95
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes	84
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching	82
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility	81
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists	81
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit	79
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes	78
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance	78
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases	77
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program	73
The Limits of the Ethical Responsibilities of Companies: Using Corporate Social Contract Theory to Identify Boundary Principles	73
The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework	72
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders	71

Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting	68
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue	68
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda	67
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?	67
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications	66
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers	65
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience	65
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions	64
Do Venture Capitalists Replace Women with Men to Lead Portfolio Companies?	64
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life	60
A Narrative Enquiry About Expatriates’ Situated Moral Agency in Confronting Ethical Problems	55
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees	54
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective	54
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision	53
When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms	53
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity	52
Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition	51
Organizations’ Management Configurations Towards Environment and Market Performances	51
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms	50
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders	49
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice	49
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation	49
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective	49
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers	49