Journal of Business Ethics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Business Ethics is 9. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Role of the Ugly = Bad Stereotype in the Rejection of Misshapen Produce199
The (In)Visibility of Diversity in Alternative Organizations176
Hypocrites! Social Media Reactions and Stakeholder Backlash to Conflicting CSR Information169
Selling Who You Know: How We Justify Sharing Others’ Data142
How Identity Work Drives Ethical Conduct in Organizations: The Case of Organizational Citizenship Behavior123
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases112
The Affective Processes of Ethical Leadership: The Role of Moral Emotions101
The Ethics of Commons Organizing: A Critical Reading80
Contextualizing Ethical Climate: Examining Contextual Moderators of the Connection Between Ethical Climate Perceptions and Ethical Behavior77
In Defence of the Indefensible: Exploring Justification Narratives of Corporate Elites Accused of Corruption73
Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy71
COVID-19 Policy Actions, Trust in Government and Tax Compliance Intentions: A Study of the British Self-Employment Income Support Scheme69
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior65
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective65
When There’s No One Else to Blame: The Impact of Coworkers’ Perceived Competence and Warmth on the Relations between Ostracism, Shame, and Ingratiation64
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes62
Religion in Family Firms: A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective on Top-Level Executives with Perceived Religiosity60
Systems Perspectives on Business and Peace: The Contingent Nature of Business-Related Action with Respect to Peace Positive Impacts58
How Officials’ Political Incentives Influence Corporate Green Innovation58
Breaking Out of the Cocoon: Whistleblowing Opportunities Under Conditions of Normalized Wrongdoing57
A Meta-Analytical Assessment of the Effect of Deontological Evaluations and Teleological Evaluations on Ethical Judgments/Intentions53
Antagonism to Protagonism: Tracing the Historical Contours of Legalization in an Emerging Industry53
Linking Temporal Landmarks to Voluntary Simplicity: The Mediating Roles of Self-Transcendence and Self-Enhancement49
Between Intensity and Diversity: Leveraging the Role of Place in Cross-Sector Partnerships48
Experimental Effects of Institutionalizing Co-determination by a Procedurally Fair Bidding Rule47
Ethical Pursuit or Personal Nirvana? Unpacking the Practice of Danshari in China46
To Buy or Not to Buy? Exploring Ethical Consumerism in an Emerging Market—India46
Corruption, Bribery and Innovation in CEE: Where is the Link?44
Who Helps Who? The Role of Stigma Dimensions in Harassment Intervention43
Religiosity and Charitable Giving on Investors’ Trading Behaviour in the Indonesian Islamic Stock Market: Islamic vs Market Logic42
Pledging Patent Rights for Fighting Against the COVID-19: From the Ethical and Efficiency Perspective42
Societal Inequality, Corruption and Relation-Based Inequality in Organizations42
Markets Within the Limit of Feasibility41
The Case for Parentalism at Work: Balancing Feminist Care Ethics and Justice Ethics through a Winnicottian approach: A School Case Study40
Theorizing Discursive Resistance to Organizational Ethics of Care Through a Multi-stakeholder Perspective on Disability Inclusion Practices39
Strategic Earnings Announcement Timing and Fraud Detection38
When the Private and the Public Self Don’t Align: The Role of Discrepant Moral Identity Dimensions in Processing Inconsistent CSR Information38
Double-Edged Effects of Creative Personality on Moral Disengagement and Unethical Behaviors: Dual Motivational Mechanisms and a Situational Contingency38
Implicit Morality Theories: Employees’ Beliefs About the Malleability of Moral Character Shape Their Workplace Behaviors38
Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership37
A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Entrepreneurs’ Gender on their Access to Bank Finance37
Ethical Issues Around Share Repurchase Announcements: The Role of Social Capital37
Global South States’ Views on Building Partnerships with Corporations: An Agonistic Struggle in the UN and Beyond37
Guest Editorial: Business Ethics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence36
Attention-Based Constraint to MNC Coevolution in China's Changing Stakeholder Environment36
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America36
Time to Talk About Race36
The Effect of Customers’ Unethical Practices on Suppliers’ Intention to Continue Their Relationships35
Taking Stock of Ethics and Compliance Programs as Anticorruption Mechanisms: An Integrative Review35
Management and Business Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction to Special Issue35
Angry but not Deviant: Employees’ Prior-Day Deviant Behavior Toward the Family Buffers Their Reactions to Abusive Supervisory Behavior34
Theorizing Effective (Preventative) Remedy: Exploring the Root Cause Dimensions of Human Rights Abuse & Remedy34
A Rawlsian Rule for Corporate Governance34
Resource Dependencies and the Legitimatization of Grocery Retailer’s Social Evaluations of Suppliers33
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 Regime33
The Purpose Ecosystem and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Interactions Among Private Sector Actors and Stakeholders33
Innovator or Troublemaker? The Co-evolution of Ethical Controversies, Legitimation and Institutionalisation of the Ridesharing Firms in China32
Challenges and Insights from South Asia for Imagining Ethical Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue32
Accounting for Plural Cognitive Framings of Growth and Sustainability: Rethinking Management Education in Latin America31
Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions31
Religion and Mortgage Misrepresentation31
The Duty Speech Loophole in Whistleblower Protection: Why We Need Retroactive Causality to Avoid Moral Luck30
The Bundian Way: An Indigenous-Led Cross-Sector Partnership in Place Through Time29
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning29
The Ethics of Freedom in Consumption: An Ethnographic Account of the Social Dimensions of Supermarket Shopping for Moroccan Women29
How to Object to the Profit System (and How Not To)29
The Influence of CSR Orientation on Innovative Performance: Is the Effect Conditioned to the Implementation of Organizational Practices?28
Diversity for Justice vs. Diversity for Performance: Philosophical and Empirical Tensions28
Defining and Conceptualizing Impact Investing: Attractive Nuisance or Catalyst?28
Seeing the Issue Differently (Or Not At All): How Bounded Ethicality Complicates Coordination Towards Sustainability Goals28
Financial Accountability and Religious Sentiments: The Case of Sukuk Bond28
A National Governance Approach to the Political Nature and Role of Business: Case Study of the Mobile Telecommunications Industry in Afghanistan27
An Experimental Study of a Change in Professional Accountants’ Code of Ethics: The Influence of NOCLAR on the Duty to Report Illegal Acts to an External Authority27
Through New Eyes: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Unemployment, and Transhumanism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun27
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists27
Feeling Competitiveness or Empathy Towards Negotiation Counterparts Mitigates Sex Differences in Lying27
Board Gender Diversity and Within-Firm Wage Inequity: Evidence from the Relaxation of China’s One-Child Policy27
Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory27
Workplace Incivility in STEM Organizations: A Typology of STEM Incivility and Affective Consequences for Women Employees27
Media Reporting of Environmental Supply Chain Sustainability Risks: Contextual and Moderating Factors27
Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors27
Ethical Foundations of the Islamic Financial Industry27
Integrative Resource Model of Workplace Inclusion for Reduced Inequality: Conservation of Resources Perspective26
Bringing Ethical Consumption to the Forefront in Emerging Markets: The Role of Product Categorization26
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue26
Corporate Social Responsibility in Liquid Times: The Case of Romania26
The Making of an Authentic Leader’s Internalized Moral Perspective: The Role of Internalized Ethical Philosophies in the Development of Authentic Leaders’ Moral Identity26
Informal Networks, Informal Institutions, and Social Exclusion in the Workplace: Insights from Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations in Korea25
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders25
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance25
Spoof, Bluff, Go For It: A Defence of Spoofing25
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Review of Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI by R. Blackman; Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studie25
Can Job Stressors Activate Amoral Manipulation? A Weekly Diary Study25
Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t25
Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals25
Ethical Sensibilities for Practicing Care in Management and Organization Research25
The Virtuousness of Ethical Networks: How to Foster Virtuous Practices in Nonprofit Organizations24
Forgiving the Unforgivable: The Possibility of the ‘Unconditional’ Forgiveness in the Workplace24
Shhh… Do Gender-Diverse Boards Prioritize Product Market Concerns Over Capital Market Incentives?24
Does a Help Giver Seek the Help from Others? The Consistency and Licensing Mechanisms and the Role of Leader Respect24
Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors24
Changing Lens: Broadening the Research Agenda of Women in Management in China24
Can Good Information Prevent Misconduct? The Role of Organizational Epistemic Virtues for Ethical Behavior24
Challenging or Threatening? The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Intelligent Technology Awareness on Accountants’ Unethical Decision-Making24
An Examination of Mind Perception and Moral Reasoning in Ethical Decision-Making: A Mixed-Methods Approach24
The Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Meaningful Work23
The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance23
Integrating Moral Personhood and Moral Management: A Confucian Approach to Ethical Leadership23
Individual and Organizational Rule-Breaking: Test of an Integrated Multilevel Model22
When and How Underdog Expectations Promote Cheating Behavior: The Roles of Need Fulfillment and General Self-efficacy22
How Do Foreign SMEs Mitigate Violent Conflict Risk by Doing Good? An Instrumental Stakeholder Theory Perspective22
When Discrimination is Worse, Autonomy is Key: How Women Entrepreneurs Leverage Job Autonomy Resources to Find Work–Life Balance22
Crossing the Red Line? Empirical Evidence and Useful Recommendations on Questionable Research Practices among Business Scholars22
The Role of Compassion in Shaping Social Entrepreneurs’ Prosocial Opportunity Recognition22
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes21
Are Business Ethics Effective? A Market Failures Approach to Impact Investing21
Gender Diversity: From Wall Street to Main Street21
Challenging the Good Life: An Institutional Theoretic Investigation of Consumers’ Transformational Process Toward Sustainable Living21
Navigating the Ethically Complex and Controversial World of College Athletics: A Humanistic Leadership Approach to Student Athlete Well-Being21
Organized Decoupling of Management Control Systems: An Exploratory Study of Traders’ Unethical Behavior21
Adversity Tries Friends: A Multilevel Analysis of Corporate Philanthropic Response to the Local Spread of COVID-19 in China20
Corporate Responses to Intimate Partner Violence20
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum20
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond20
State-Level Culture and Workplace Diversity Policies: Evidence from US Firms20
Predatory Monetisation? A Categorisation of Unfair, Misleading and Aggressive Monetisation Techniques in Digital Games from the Player Perspective19
Self-Interest over Ethics: Firm Withdrawal from Russia After the Ukraine Invasion19
Who Keeps Company with the Wolf will Learn to Howl: Does Local Corruption Culture Affect Financial Adviser Misconduct?19
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program19
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem19
Mandating Diversity on the Board of Directors: Do Investors Feel That Gender Quotas Result in Tokenism or Added Value for Firms?19
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment19
Untangling the Paradoxical Relationship Between Religion and Business: A Systematic Literature Review of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Religiosity Research19
At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice19
Amoral Management and the Normalisation of Deviance: The Case of Stafford Hospital19
Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda19
Global Insights on TMT Gender Diversity in Controversial Industries: A Legitimacy Perspective19
Do the Right Thing: The Imprinting of Deonance at the Upper Echelons19
Does Price Personalization Ethically Outperform Unitary Pricing? A Thought Experiment and a Simulation Study19
Universal Design for the Workplace: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities19
Local Tournament Incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility19
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities19
Spotting Portfolio Greenwashing in Environmental Funds19
Social Entrepreneur Servant Leadership and Social Venture Performance: How are They Related?19
Who are the Empowered Employees: Those with High Work Performance or High Ethical Behavior?18
Religious Expression and Crowdfunded Microfinance Success: Insights from Role Congruity Theory18
Evidence on the Economic Consequences of Marriage Equality and LGBT Human Rights18
Exploring the Effectiveness of Sustainability Measurement: Which ESG Metrics Will Survive COVID-19?18
No Planet B Available! A Review of The Climate Book: The Facts and Solutions by Greta Thunberg18
Contaminated Heart: Does Air Pollution Harm Business Ethics? Evidence from Earnings Manipulation18
Rebellion Under Exploitation: How and When Exploitative Leadership Evokes Employees’ Workplace Deviance18
Religious Beliefs Inspire Sustainable HOPE (Help Ourselves Protect the Environment): Culture, Religion, Dogma, and Liturgy—The Matthew Effect in Religious Social Responsibility18
Do Personal Beliefs and Values Affect an Individual’s “Fraud Tolerance”? Evidence from the World Values Survey18
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study18
The EThIC Model of Virtue-Based Allyship Development: A New Approach to Equity and Inclusion in Organizations18
Carbon Emissions and TCFD Aligned Climate-Related Information Disclosures18
Does CSR Engagement Deter Corporate Misconduct? Quasi-natural Experimental Evidence from Firms Joining a Government-Initiated Social Program in China18
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Climate Change: Evidence from CO2 Emission17
Privacy Behaviour: A Model for Online Informed Consent17
Leading Without a Self: Implications of Buddhist Practices for Pseudo-spiritual Leadership17
Women Leadership, Culture, and Islam: Female Voices from Jordan17
Moral Reactions to Bribery are Fundamentally Different for Managers Witnessing and Managers Committing Such Acts: Tests of Cognitive-Emotional Explanations of Bribery17
When Crises Hit Home: How U.S. Higher Education Leaders Navigate Values During Uncertain Times17
Board Gender Diversity and Women in Senior Management17
Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding17
Authoritarian-Benevolent Leadership and Employee Behaviors: An Examination of the Role of LMX Ambivalence17
Board Chairs’ Early-Life Experience and Tax Avoidance17
Biased Humans, (Un)Biased Algorithms?17
Towards Normative Theories of Social Entrepreneurship. A Review of the Top Publications of the Field17
Misrepresentation of Marginalized Groups: A Critique of Epistemic Neocolonialism16
The Impact of Perceived Greenwashing on Customer Satisfaction and the Contingent Role of Capability Reputation16
Board Gender Diversity and Managerial Obfuscation: Evidence from the Readability of Narrative Disclosure in 10-K Reports16
Microaggressions, Interrupted: The Experience and Effects of Gender Microaggressions for Women in STEM16
A Decision Theory Perspective on Wicked Problems, SDGs and Stakeholders: The Case of Deforestation16
Machine Learning for Predicting Corporate Violations: How Do CEO Characteristics Matter?16
The Ethics of Financial Market Making and Its Implications for High-Frequency Trading16
Local Corruption and Trade Credit: Evidence from an Emerging Market16
Beyond Market Strategies: How Multiple Decision-Maker Groups Jointly Influence Underperforming Firms’ Corporate Social (Ir)responsibility16
Fostering Social Impact Through Corporate Implementation of the SDGs: Transformative Mechanisms Towards Interconnectedness and Inclusiveness16
Does Confucianism Prompt Firms to Participate in Poverty Alleviation Campaigns?15
Correction to: Accounting Frauds and Main-Bank Monitoring in Japanese Corporations15
Are Companies Offloading Risk onto Employees in Times of Uncertainty? Insights from Corporate Pension Plans15
Correction to: The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research15
Caught in a Dilemma: The Impacts of Dual Organizational Identification on Host Country Nationals in the Face of Ethical Controversies15
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity15
Doing Good and Doing Well? CSR Climate as a Driver of Team Empowerment and Team Performance15
“Be Not Conformed to this World”: MacIntyre’s Critique of Modernity and Amish Business Ethics15
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Corporate Environmental Engagement15
Correction to: Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts15
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching15
Correction to: Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Response to Cyber Risk: Evidence from Cybersecurity Related Disclosure15
Responsible Business Conduct in Commodity Trading—A Multidisciplinary Review15
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting15
Correction: Social Accountability, Ethics, and the Occupy Wall Street Protests15
Toward Understanding Employees 'Responses to Leaders' Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: An Outcome Favorability Perspective14
Effective Awe-Inspiring Visual Content Strategy for Social Media Engagement with Ethical Fashion Brands: The Mediating Role of Deontological Ethical Beliefs14
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Compliance as a Cost-Effective System of Interaction Between Business and Government14
Anxious Altruism: Virtue Signaling Mediates the Impact of Attachment Style on Consumers’ Green Purchase Behavior and Prosocial Responses14
Automation and Well-Being: Bridging the Gap between Economics and Business Ethics14
The Sociable and the Deviant: A Latent Profile Analysis of HEXACO and the Dark Triad14
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
Triggered Abuse: How and Why Leaders with Narcissistic Rivalry React to Follower Deviance14
From Fiduciary Duty to Impact Fidelity: Managerial Compensation in Impact Investing14
Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States14
Correction to: What Makes You a Whistleblower? A Multi-Country Field Study on the Determinants of the Intention to Report Wrongdoing14
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors14
Different Reality? Generations’ and Religious Groups’ Views of Spirituality Policies in the Workplace14
When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms13
Laughters Nurturing Tears for Leaders and Organizations: The Implications of Leader Humor for Leader Workplace Deviance13
Inherited Scepticism and Neo-communist CSR-washing: Evidence from a Post-communist Society13
Exploring the Cognitive Foundations of Managerial (Climate) Change Decisions13
The Mine or the Mire? Mobilising Place in Natural Resource Struggles13
Tinkering Toward the Good––Sustainable Investing Between Utopian Imaginaries and Actualizations13
Contracts Capsized by COVID-19: A Legal and Jewish Ethical Analysis13
Will “Green” Parents Have “Green” Children? The Relationship Between Parents’ and Early Adolescents’ Green Consumption Values13
Do Wealth Managers Understand Codes of Conduct and Their Ethical Dilemmas? Lessons from an Online Survey13
Radical, Relevant, Reflective and Brilliant: Towards the Future of Business Ethics13
Don’t Just Trust Your Gut: The Importance of Normative Deliberation to Ethical Decision-Making at Work13
Review of Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein13
Time Orientation in Languages and Tax Avoidance13
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective12
Coevolution of Strategy, Innovation and Ethics12
‘Whose Call?’ The Conflict Between Tradition-Based and Expressivist Accounts of Calling12
The Interplay Between Supply Chain Transparency and NGO Pressure: A Quantitative Analysis in the Fashion Industry Context12
Addressing the Societal Challenges in Organizations: The Conceptualization of Mindfulness Capability for Social Justice12
When the Punisher is Both Potential Victim and (Intended) Beneficiary: Investigating Observers’ Attitudinal and Behavioral Reactions Toward Organizational Punishment Severity for Unethical Pro-Organiz12
Diverse, Ethical, Collaborative Leadership Through Revitalized Cultural Archetype: The Mary Alternative12
Boardroom Diversity and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from the UK Firms12
Demoralizing Markets: Vendor Conscience and Impersonalism12
Discrimination in Services: How Service Recovery Efforts Change with Customer Accent12
Work is Meaningful if There are Good Reasons to do it: A Revisionary Conceptual Analysis of ‘Meaningful Work’12
Business Versus Ethics? Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics12
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Through Collaborative Innovation: Evidence from Four European Initiatives12
The Devil is in the Details: Sexual Harassment e-Training Design Choices and Perceived Messenger Integrity12
Examining Impact of Islamic Work Ethic on Task Performance: Mediating Effect of Psychological Capital and a Moderating Role of Ethical Leadership12
Do CEOs with Sent-Down Movement Experience Foster Corporate Environmental Responsibility?12
Power Imbalance and the Dark Side of the Captive Agri-food Supplier–Buyer Relationship12
Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality12
Procedural Fairness in Exchange Matching Systems12
Green Practices and Customer Evaluations of the Service Experience: The Moderating Roles of External Environmental Factors and Firm Characteristics12
What Makes Work Meaningful?12
The Banality of Organizational Wrongdoing: A Reading on Arendt’s Thoughtlessness Thesis12
Unethical Leadership: Review, Synthesis and Directions for Future Research12
The Impact of Islamic Feminism in Empowering Women’s Entrepreneurship in Conflict Zones: Evidence from Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine11
Organizations’ Management Configurations Towards Environment and Market Performances11
Bringing the Family Logic in: From Duality to Plurality in Social Enterprises11
Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility: External Stakeholder Involvement, Productivity and Firm Performance11
Diverse Organizational Adoption of Institutions in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility11
The Impact of Islamic Spirituality on Job Satisfaction and Organisational Commitment: Exploring Mediation and Moderation Impact11
The Interactive Effect of Perceived Overqualification and Peer Overqualification on Peer Ostracism and Work Meaningfulness11
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