OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Business Ethics is 50. 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.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities	332
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning	292
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study	229
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft	208
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program	158
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue	129
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment	120
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes	115
The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework	113
The Limits of the Ethical Responsibilities of Companies: Using Corporate Social Contract Theory to Identify Boundary Principles	111
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases	102
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance	98
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders	96
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching	90
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum	88
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America	88
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes	85
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit	85
Good Intentions Gone Awry: How and When Perceived Platform CSR Toward Customers Undermines Gig Workers’ Service Delivery Quality	84
From Critique to Action: A Capability Approach to Reimagining Human Rights Due Diligence	79
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility	79
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond	78
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting	77
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem	76
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective	75

Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity	71
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists	71
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors	70
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior	70
Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024)	69
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation	69
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation	69
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders	64
Do Venture Capitalists Replace Women with Men to Lead Portfolio Companies?	64
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective	59
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?	58
Navigating Ethical Waters: Trade Credit Provisions for Related-Party Customers	56
Parrying Diversity-Hostility and Ethical Dilemmas of Organizing Inclusion	56
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life	55
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers	53
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms	53
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience	53
A Narrative Enquiry About Expatriates’ Situated Moral Agency in Confronting Ethical Problems	53
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision	52
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers	52
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda	52
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity	51
When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms	51
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective	51
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees	51
Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence	50