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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ethical Foundations of the Islamic Financial Industry258
Organized Decoupling of Management Control Systems: An Exploratory Study of Traders’ Unethical Behavior226
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance224
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond190
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective168
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities161
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior134
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study109
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft108
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases100
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Compliance as a Cost-Effective System of Interaction Between Business and Government90
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum86
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes84
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem80
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning79
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists79
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility77
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching77
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes76
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program76
Board Gender Diversity and Managerial Obfuscation: Evidence from the Readability of Narrative Disclosure in 10-K Reports74
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America74
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment70
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity69
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding67
The Ethics of Financial Market Making and Its Implications for High-Frequency Trading63
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit62
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue58
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting58
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda57
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders57
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers54
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice54
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life54
Collective Phronesis in Business Ethics Education and Managerial Practice: A Neo-Aristotelian Analysis53
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience53
Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition52
Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language52
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation51
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda51
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications48
The Behavior of Organization in Economic Crisis: Integration, Interpretation, and Research Development47
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers47
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation47
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions47
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees46
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms45
Different Reality? Generations’ and Religious Groups’ Views of Spirituality Policies in the Workplace45
Time Orientation in Languages and Tax Avoidance45
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective44
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders44
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity43
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective43
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?43
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors41
Organizations’ Management Configurations Towards Environment and Market Performances41
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Implementation: A Review and a Research Agenda Towards an Integrative Framework40
When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms40
Governing Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling: The Effect of the Governance Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling40
Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence40
Corporate Social Innovation in Developing Countries40
Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024)39
Felt or Thought: Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Exploitative Leadership and Abusive Supervision39
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision39
The Relationship of Risk to Rules, Values, Virtues, and Moral Complexity: What We can Learn from the Moral Struggles of Military Leaders39
The Invisible Racialized Minority Entrepreneur: Using White Solipsism to Explain the White Space39
Historical Ownership of Family Firms and Corporate Fraud38
In the Name of Merit: Ethical Violence and Inequality at a Business School38
Against the Sale of Homeopathy (and Other Ineffective Medicines)38
The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations37
The Impact of CEOs’ Personal Traits on Organisational Performance: Evidence from Faith-Based Charity Organisations37
Ethical Complexity of Social Change: Negotiated Actions of a Social Enterprise37
Organizational Wrongdoing within the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Integrative Review37
Encouraging Individual Contributions to Net-Zero Organizations: Effects of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Social Norms36
Impact of Directors’ Network on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from China36
Right From the Start: The Association Between Ethical Leadership, Trust Primacy, and Customer Loyalty36
How do Russian National Systems of Institutional Absences Shape Insensitive Corporate Environmental Violence of a Russian Extractive Multinational Corporation?35
The Business of Stealing Futures: Race, Gender, and the Student Debt Regime35
Teaching Race in Business Schools: The Challenges and Possibilities of Anti-Racist Education35
Local Understandings of Decent Work and the Legitimacy of Global Labour Standards: Insights from Garment Suppliers in Egypt and Jordan34
Leader-Expressed Humility: Development and Validation of Scales Based on a Comprehensive Conceptualization34
Deliberating with the Autocrats? A Case Study on the Limitations and Potential of Political CSR in a Non-Democratic Context34
Supporting and Humiliating Dignity with Biometric Technologies: An Affordance Perspective34
A Critique of Utilitarian Trust: The Case of the Dutch Insurance Sector34
Is the Prisoner’s Dilemma an Adequate Concept for Ethical Analysis in Healthcare? An Original Institutional Economic Rejoinder34
Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers34
Evaluating Negotiators Who Deceptively Communicate Anger or Happiness: On the Importance of Morality, Sociability, and Competence33
Correction to: The Riskification of Internal Auditors’ Ethical Deliberation: An Emerging Third Logic Between Norms and Values?33
Responsible Management-as-Process of Smoothing–Striating: Transcending Freedom or Control Contingencies33
Institutional Theory in Social Entrepreneurship: A Review and Consideration of Ethics33
Lying and Cheating the Company: The Positive and Negative Effects of Corporate Activism on Unethical Consumer Behavior32
Moral Judgments in the Age of Artificial Intelligence32
Correction to: Corporate Essence and Identity in Criminal Law32
How and When Leaders’ Perceptions of Team Politics Influence Justice Rule Adherence: A Moral Self-Regulation Perspective32
CEO Narcissism and Credit Ratings31
Unveiling Her Efforts: Gender Diversity’s Impact on Performance Commitments in M&As31
Peer Reaction to Manager Stewardship Behavior: Crediting or Stigmatizing the Behavior?31
Virtual Special Issue on Corporate Governance and Ethics: What’s Next?31
Methodological Decolonisation and Local Epistemologies in Business Ethics Research31
Sour Grapes: Exploring Unfavorable Reactions of Employees Who Observe Leader Leniency31
Tom Angier (ed.), Review of MacIntyre’s After Virtue31
Shared Value Creation in Equivocal CSR Environments: A Configuration Approach31
Sustaining Livelihoods or Saving Lives? Economic System Justification in the Time of COVID-1930
Receiving Social Support Motivates Long-Term Prosocial Behavior30
In Search of Regained Time? Autism and Organizational [A]temporality in the Light of Humanistic Management30
Orchestration of Care: Exploring the Active Role of Disabled Workers in Creation of Socio-Material Care Arrangements at Work30
Organizations as Spaces for Caring: A Case of an Anti-trafficking Organization in India29
The Ethics of Sharing: Does Generosity Erode the Competitive Advantage of an Ecosystem Firm?29
Do Generalist CEOs Magnify Boardroom Backscratching?29
Being a Parent Helps Being a Benevolent Leader: A Mixed-Method Approach29
Are Fairness Perceptions Related to Moral Licensing Behavior? Evidence From Tax Compliance29
The Nature of the Self, Self-regulation and Moral Action: Implications from the Confucian Relational Self and Buddhist Non-self29
The Dual Spillover Spiraling Effects of Family Incivility on Workplace Interpersonal Deviance: From the Conservation of Resources Perspective28
Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics28
Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct28
Decolonizing Deliberative Democracy: Perspectives from Below28
Aesthetic Injustice28
Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?27
How Religiosity Affects Attitudes Toward Brands That Utilize LGBTQ-Themed Advertising27
Does CEO Risk-Aversion Affect Carbon Emission?27
Buffering or Aggravating Effect? Examining the Effects of Prior Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Social Irresponsibility27
Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Outcomes: Interrelations of External and Internal Orientations with Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment27
Greenwashing or Striving to Persist: An Alternative Explanation of a Loose Coupling Between Corporate Environmental Commitments and Outcomes27
Can We Trust the Trust Words in 10-Ks?27
Sex Robots: Are We Ready for Them? An Exploration of the Psychological Mechanisms Underlying People’s Receptiveness of Sex Robots26
The Metrics of Ethics and the Ethics of Metrics26
Authentic Brand Ethicality: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation in the Fashion Industry26
Virtue Ethics in Marketing: The Art of Crafting Tragic Brand Stories26
Temporality and Meaningful Entrepreneurship25
Relational HR Practices in Malaysian SMEs: An Ethics of Care Perspective25
Digital and Disembedded? Questioning the Territorial Embeddedness of Local Digital Platforms25
Correction to: Toward Understanding Employees 'Responses to Leaders' Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: An Outcome Favorability Perspective25
Will a Moral Follower Please Stand Up (to the Machiavellian Leader)? The Effects of Machiavellian Leadership on Moral Anger and Whistleblowing25
Developing, Validating, and Applying a Measure of Human Quality Treatment25
Correction to: Guilty by Association: Spillover of Regulative Violations and Repair Efforts to Alliance Partners25
‘Should I Tell?’ Moral Reflexivity in 14 Whistleblower Autobiographies25
Why and When Do Employees Feel Guilty About Observing Supervisor Ostracism? The Critical Roles of Observers’ Silence Behavior and Leader–Member Exchange Quality24
Narcissism Dynamics and Auditor Skepticism24
“Doing the Right Thing” and “Making a Difference”: The Role of Personal Ethical Values in Diversity and Inclusion Consulting24
Female Management Representation and Corporate Financial Fraud: Do Local Gender Norms Play a Role?24
Trees in the Forest: How Do Family Owners Make CSR Decisions in Business Groups?24
Organizational Top Dog (vs. Underdog) Narratives Increase the Punishment of Corporate Moral Transgressions: When Dominance is a Liability and Prestige is an Asset24
On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation24
Time is of the Essence!: Retired Independent Directors’ Contributions to Board Effectiveness23
Reviewers 202423
The Impact of Visual Perspectives in Advertisements on Consumers’ Reactions to Close-to-Expiry Food23
Do the Ends Justify the Means? Variation in the Distributive and Procedural Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms23
Silenced by Incivility23
Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships22
The Normative Value of Making a Positive Contribution–Benefiting Others as a Core Dimension of Meaningful Work22
Geographic Concentration of Institutional Blockholders and Workplace Safety Violations22
A Contribution to Sustainable Human Resource Development in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic22
The ethical challenges of teaching business ethics: ethical sensemaking through the Goffmanian lens22
Harmful Leader Behaviors: Toward an Increased Understanding of How Different Forms of Unethical Leader Behavior Can Harm Subordinates22
Understanding Multiple Perspectives on Social Value in Business: An Integrative Review and Typology21
Leadership and Workplace Aggression: A Meta-analysis21
When Your Leader Just Does Not Make Any Sense: Conceptualizing Inconsistent Leadership21
(In)vulnerable Managers in an Immigration Context21
Ethical Implications of Acceleration: Perspectives From Health Professionals21
Reviewing Paradox Theory in Corporate Sustainability Toward a Systems Perspective21
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Ethics-Oriented HRM Systems, Moral Attentiveness, and Deviant Workplace Behavior21
When Aspirational Talk Backfires: The Role of Moral Judgements in Employees’ Hypocrisy Interpretation21
Mapping Spiritual Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Synthesis of Past Milestones and Future Research Agenda21
The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Employee Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Employment Contract Type21
Make it Right: Regulatory Intervention in Managers’ Misconduct and Corporate Risk21
The Impact of Work-Related Use of Information and Communication Technologies After Hours on Time Theft20
Clearing the Smoke: Regulations, Moral Legitimacy, and Performance in the U.S. Tobacco Industry20
Exploring the Antecedents of Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior (UPB): A Meta-Analysis20
Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO Led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives20
Value Creating Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies of Family and Non-Family Firms: An Interventionist Perspective20
Social Credit and Trade Credit: A Coevolutionary Perspective20
Gifts, Corporate Policies, and Individual Morality in UK’s Alternative Real Estate Lending Market19
The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate19
How and When Does Employee Creativity Relate to Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior? Unmasking the Negative Side of Organizational Creativity19
Building Common Ground: How Facilitators Bridge Between Diverging Groups in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue19
Ethical Consumers and Low-Income Sellers on China’s Reward-Based Crowdfunding Platforms: Are Poverty Alleviation Campaigns More Successful?19
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
Signaling Effects of CSR Performance on Cross-border Alliance Formation19
Angel Investors’ Political Ideology and Investments in Women-Owned Ventures19
Business Firms as Moral Agents: A Kantian Response to the Corporate Autonomy Problem18
The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia–Ukraine War18
Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship: What is the Role of the Founders’ Entrepreneurial Background?18
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
How Ethical Leadership and Ethical Self-Leadership Enhance the Effects of Idiosyncratic Deals on Salesperson Work Engagement and Performance18
From Greenwashing to Machinewashing: A Model and Future Directions Derived from Reasoning by Analogy18
Responsible Management-as-Practice: Mobilizing a Posthumanist Approach18
Is Work an Act of Worship? The Impact of Implicit Religious Beliefs on Work Ethic in Secular vs. Religious Cultures18
The Moral Foundations of Vaccine Passports18
Constructing a ‘Different’ Strength: A Feminist Exploration of Vulnerability, Ethical Agency and Care18
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and CSR Performance: Evidence from China18
When Play at Work Can Foster Harassment-Based Norms: Exploring Moral Disengagement During Social Play17
Management and Business Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to Special Issue17
Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals17
The End of Meaningful Work in the Not-for-Profit Sector? A Case Study of Ethics in Employee Relations Under the New Business-Like Operation Regime17
Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises17
Challenges and Insights from South Asia for Imagining Ethical Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue17
Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors17
Shhh… Do Gender-Diverse Boards Prioritize Product Market Concerns Over Capital Market Incentives?17
Between Intensity and Diversity: Leveraging the Role of Place in Cross-Sector Partnerships17
Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States17
Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t17
Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions16
Universal Design for the Workplace: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities16
Global Insights on TMT Gender Diversity in Controversial Industries: A Legitimacy Perspective16
At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice16
Cultivating CSR: The Artistic Influence of Top Executives on Corporate Responsibility16
Taking Stock of Ethics and Compliance Programs as Anticorruption Mechanisms: An Integrative Review16
Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment16
Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory16
Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy16
The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance16
Correction to: The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research16
Robots as Moral Persons: Exploring AI Ethics in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model16
Correction to: Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts16
Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace: The Contingent Nature of Business-Related Action with Respect to Peace Positive Impacts16
How Identity Work Drives Ethical Conduct in Organizations: The Case of Organizational Citizenship Behavior16
Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors15
Experimental Effects of Institutionalizing Co-determination by a Procedurally Fair Bidding Rule15
Mandating Diversity on the Board of Directors: Do Investors Feel That Gender Quotas Result in Tokenism or Added Value for Firms?15
How Officials’ Political Incentives Influence Corporate Green Innovation15
Boardroom Diversity and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from the UK Firms15
Maintaining “Good” Care: An Articulation Work Perspective on Organizational Ethics in the Healthcare Sector15
The Role of Compassion in Shaping Social Entrepreneurs’ Prosocial Opportunity Recognition15
Challenging or Threatening? The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Intelligent Technology Awareness on Accountants’ Unethical Decision-Making15
A Meta-Analytical Assessment of the Effect of Deontological Evaluations and Teleological Evaluations on Ethical Judgments/Intentions15
Who are the Empowered Employees: Those with High Work Performance or High Ethical Behavior?15
Relative Performance Goals and Management Earnings Guidance15
A Libertarian Defense of Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act15
The Interplay Between Supply Chain Transparency and NGO Pressure: A Quantitative Analysis in the Fashion Industry Context15
Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership15
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Corporate Environmental Engagement15
Bringing Ethical Consumption to the Forefront in Emerging Markets: The Role of Product Categorization15
Authoritarian-Benevolent Leadership and Employee Behaviors: An Examination of the Role of LMX Ambivalence15
From Deception to Rejection: Unraveling the Impact of Workplace Cheating Behavior on Coworker Ostracism15
Coevolution of Strategy, Innovation and Ethics15
‘I Can Only Do My Best and Leave the Rest to God”: Religious/Spiritual Coping Strategies of African Nurses in the UK14
Entitlement Versus Obligation: The Role of Attributed Motives in Subordinate Reactions to Leader Leniency14
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
The Escalation of Organizational Moral Failure in Public Discourse: A Semiotic Analysis of Nokia’s Bochum Plant Closure14
Regulatory Entrepreneurship, Fair Competition, and Obeying the Law14
Rules of the Game and Credibility of Implementation in the Control of Corruption14
The Impact of Islamic Spirituality on Job Satisfaction and Organisational Commitment: Exploring Mediation and Moderation Impact14
Correction to: Deliberating or Stalling for Justice? Dynamics of Corporate Remediation and Victim Resistance Through the Lens of Parentalism: The Fundão dam Collapse and the Renova Foundation in Brazi14
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
Three Dilemmas of Disabled Employee Voice14
Totally Administered Heteronomy: Adorno on Work, Leisure, and Politics in the Age of Digital Capitalism14
Don’t Just Trust Your Gut: The Importance of Normative Deliberation to Ethical Decision-Making at Work14
Addressing the Societal Challenges in Organizations: The Conceptualization of Mindfulness Capability for Social Justice14
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