Journal of Business Ethics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Business Ethics is 12. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities369
From Critique to Action: A Capability Approach to Reimagining Human Rights Due Diligence252
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft232
The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework172
The Limits of the Ethical Responsibilities of Companies: Using Corporate Social Contract Theory to Identify Boundary Principles139
Does Traditional Debt Financing Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Toxic Releases131
How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study125
Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit123
Accountable Selves and Responsibility Within a Global Forum118
Does the Moral Norm Initiative Affect Corporate Tax Compliance? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China106
Good Intentions Gone Awry: How and When Perceived Platform CSR Toward Customers Undermines Gig Workers’ Service Delivery Quality105
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning101
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond101
When CEO Pay Becomes a Brand Problem96
The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching95
The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective93
‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes92
Making Sense of CSR Challenges and Shortcomings in Developing Economies of Latin America86
Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue85
Can Green Investments Increase Your Green? Evidence from Social Hedge Fund Activists84
Formal Firms with Bribery in a Dynamic Business Environment82
Revitalizing Urban Places: How Prosocial Organizations Acquire Saliency in the Eyes of Resisting Stakeholders82
Climate Reputation and Bank Loan Contracting82
Does Workplace Spirituality Promote Ethical Voice: Examining the Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership and Moderating Influence of Moral Identity80
Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility80
How Government Spending Impacts Tax Compliance75
When Does Prosocial Motivation Deliver? A Dual-Motivations Approach to Social Enterprise Outcomes75
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program75
When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior75
Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders74
Ethnic Obligation and Deviant Behavior: A Dynamic Moral Economy Perspective72
A CEO’s Childhood Family Decline and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Role of Long-Term Orientation64
Incivility Affects Actors Too: The Complex Effects of Incivility on Perpetrators’ Work and Home Behaviors63
Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Moderating Effects of Marketization and Language62
Employee Humor Can Shield Them from Abusive Supervision60
When do Non-financial Goals Benefit Stakeholders? Theorizing on Care and Power in Family Firms60
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: Redemption from Excessive Executive Pay?59
Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective59
Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024)59
Navigating Ethical Waters: Trade Credit Provisions for Related-Party Customers58
Creative Destruction and the Autonomous Life58
Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers57
Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms57
A Narrative Enquiry About Expatriates’ Situated Moral Agency in Confronting Ethical Problems57
Witnessing Cyberloafing: A Daily Diary Study of Observers’ Reactions to Cyberloafers57
Workplace Ostracism and Helping Behavior: A Cross-Level Investigation56
Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity56
Do Venture Capitalists Replace Women with Men to Lead Portfolio Companies?56
Shaping the Future of Business Sustainability: LDA Topic Modeling Insights, Definitions, and Research Agenda55
Looking Good in the Eyes of Stakeholders: Corporate Giving and Corporate Acquisitions55
Who Has a Seat at the Table in Impact Investing? Addressing Inequality by Giving Voice54
Transporting Audit Quality Across Countries: Returnee CEOs and Audit Fees53
Organizations’ Management Configurations Towards Environment and Market Performances51
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda51
Consumer Sovereignty and the Ethics of Recognition51
Parrying Diversity-Hostility and Ethical Dilemmas of Organizing Inclusion51
CSR Structures: Evidence, Drivers, and Firm Value Implications51
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Implementation: A Review and a Research Agenda Towards an Integrative Framework50
Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring and Organizational Trust: The Role of Performance Expectancy and Social Influence50
Blessing or Curse? Role of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management in Employee Resilience49
Against the Sale of Homeopathy (and Other Ineffective Medicines)49
Governing Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling: The Effect of the Governance Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility Decoupling49
Supporting and Humiliating Dignity with Biometric Technologies: An Affordance Perspective47
Correction to: The Riskification of Internal Auditors’ Ethical Deliberation: An Emerging Third Logic Between Norms and Values?46
Is the Prisoner’s Dilemma an Adequate Concept for Ethical Analysis in Healthcare? An Original Institutional Economic Rejoinder46
A Critique of Utilitarian Trust: The Case of the Dutch Insurance Sector46
Local Understandings of Decent Work and the Legitimacy of Global Labour Standards: Insights from Garment Suppliers in Egypt and Jordan45
Responsible Management-as-Process of Smoothing–Striating: Transcending Freedom or Control Contingencies45
Evaluating Negotiators Who Deceptively Communicate Anger or Happiness: On the Importance of Morality, Sociability, and Competence45
The Business of Stealing Futures: Race, Gender, and the Student Debt Regime44
Right From the Start: The Association Between Ethical Leadership, Trust Primacy, and Customer Loyalty44
Organizational Wrongdoing within the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Integrative Review43
Teaching Race in Business Schools: The Challenges and Possibilities of Anti-Racist Education43
Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers43
Understanding Failed Ethical Consumption Through a Socio-Cultural Lens: An Examination of Online Fashion Shopping43
Felt or Thought: Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Exploitative Leadership and Abusive Supervision40
How do Russian National Systems of Institutional Absences Shape Insensitive Corporate Environmental Violence of a Russian Extractive Multinational Corporation?40
Utility and Democracy in Political Campaign Advertising: Toward a Rule-Utilitarian Ethic for Political Marketing and the Ethics of Meddling in the Other Party’s Primary40
Historical Ownership of Family Firms and Corporate Fraud40
Impact of Directors’ Network on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from China40
The Impact of CEOs’ Personal Traits on Organisational Performance: Evidence from Faith-Based Charity Organisations39
The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations39
The Invisible Racialized Minority Entrepreneur: Using White Solipsism to Explain the White Space38
Leader-Expressed Humility: Development and Validation of Scales Based on a Comprehensive Conceptualization38
How and When Leaders’ Perceptions of Team Politics Influence Justice Rule Adherence: A Moral Self-Regulation Perspective38
Motivating Business Students for Civic Education: Design Principles for Aligning Civic Engagement Programs with Student Motivation37
Can Purpose and Professional Advancement Coexist? Review of Make It Meaningful: How to Find Purpose in Life and Work by Debbie Haski-Leventhal37
Lying and Cheating the Company: The Positive and Negative Effects of Corporate Activism on Unethical Consumer Behavior37
Death, Retirement, or Redeployment for Unproductive Farm Animals? Dispositional Tensions in Organizational Routines37
Encouraging Individual Contributions to Net-Zero Organizations: Effects of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Social Norms36
Ethical Complexity of Social Change: Negotiated Actions of a Social Enterprise36
The Dark Side of Source Credibility: Differential Effectiveness of Credibility Cues in Fraudulent Versus Legitimate Crowdfunding Campaigns36
Institutional Theory in Social Entrepreneurship: A Review and Consideration of Ethics36
Mitigating Moral Emotions After Crises: A Reconceptualization of Organizational Responses35
Moral Judgments in the Age of Artificial Intelligence35
Deliberating with the Autocrats? A Case Study on the Limitations and Potential of Political CSR in a Non-Democratic Context35
Aesthetic Encounters, Canines, and Care: New Multispecies Methodological Avenues in Organizational and Business Ethics34
Religiosity and Gender Dynamics in Executive Leadership: Impact on CEO Appointments and Pay Disparities34
Sustaining Livelihoods or Saving Lives? Economic System Justification in the Time of COVID-1934
Beyond Inspiration Porn: Effects of Message Framing on Brand Authenticity and Community Support in Marketing Disabled Athletes33
Are Fairness Perceptions Related to Moral Licensing Behavior? Evidence From Tax Compliance33
The Dual Spillover Spiraling Effects of Family Incivility on Workplace Interpersonal Deviance: From the Conservation of Resources Perspective33
Shared Value Creation in Equivocal CSR Environments: A Configuration Approach33
Virtual Special Issue on Corporate Governance and Ethics: What’s Next?33
Being a Parent Helps Being a Benevolent Leader: A Mixed-Method Approach32
Reshaping the Space of Ethics for Expert Work: Deliberative Approaches for Deploying Artificial Intelligence in Auditing32
Peer Reaction to Manager Stewardship Behavior: Crediting or Stigmatizing the Behavior?32
Resisting Financial Consumer Responsibilization Through Community Counter-Conduct32
Organizations as Spaces for Caring: A Case of an Anti-trafficking Organization in India32
From Price to Quantity: Redefining How Consumers Pay the Ethical Premium31
Seeing Opportunities From Conflicts: Exploring Third Parties’ Mixed Reactions to Ethical Conflict in the Workplace30
The Ethics of Sharing: Does Generosity Erode the Competitive Advantage of an Ecosystem Firm?30
Sour Grapes: Exploring Unfavorable Reactions of Employees Who Observe Leader Leniency30
Unveiling Her Efforts: Gender Diversity’s Impact on Performance Commitments in M&As30
One Move, Two Gains: Commercial Kickbacks Suppression and Corporate Tax Avoidance30
Orchestration of Care: Exploring the Active Role of Disabled Workers in Creation of Socio-Material Care Arrangements at Work29
Counter-Accounts in Accountability Relationships: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Reporting on Rio Tinto’s Destruction of Indigenous Heritage Sites at the Juukan Gorge29
In Search of Regained Time? Autism and Organizational [A]temporality in the Light of Humanistic Management29
How Religiosity Affects Attitudes Toward Brands That Utilize LGBTQ-Themed Advertising29
Tom Angier (ed.), Review of MacIntyre’s After Virtue29
Can We Trust the Trust Words in 10-Ks?29
Bringing Excitement to Empirical Business Ethics Research: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics29
Aesthetic Injustice28
Does CEO Risk-Aversion Affect Carbon Emission?28
Greenwashing or Striving to Persist: An Alternative Explanation of a Loose Coupling Between Corporate Environmental Commitments and Outcomes28
The Folk Ethics of Commodification: An Empirical Investigation into Moral Attitudes Against Market Transactions28
From Compliance to Commitment: Examining the Influence of Corporate Governance and Social Performance on Firms’ Circular Economy Initiatives27
Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?27
CEO Narcissism and Credit Ratings27
Buffering or Aggravating Effect? Examining the Effects of Prior Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Social Irresponsibility27
Methodological Decolonisation and Local Epistemologies in Business Ethics Research27
Authentic Brand Ethicality: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation in the Fashion Industry26
When Your Leader Just Does Not Make Any Sense: Conceptualizing Inconsistent Leadership26
Silenced by Incivility26
Developing, Validating, and Applying a Measure of Human Quality Treatment26
Receiving Social Support Motivates Long-Term Prosocial Behavior26
Correction to: Toward Understanding Employees 'Responses to Leaders' Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: An Outcome Favorability Perspective26
Pure Altruism or Warm-Glow Altruism? Altruistic Motivation and Gender Differences in Socially Responsible Investment26
Sex Robots: Are We Ready for Them? An Exploration of the Psychological Mechanisms Underlying People’s Receptiveness of Sex Robots25
When Consumer Autonomy is Compromised: Adopting a Dual-Type View to Understand AI-Driven Marketing and Its Impact on Young Consumers’ Ethical Behavior25
Understanding Multiple Perspectives on Social Value in Business: An Integrative Review and Typology24
Cultivating Integrity? The Role of Employee Directors in Mitigating Corporate Financial Misconduct23
The ethical challenges of teaching business ethics: ethical sensemaking through the Goffmanian lens23
Why are Men More Likely to Morally Disengage Under Job Stress than Women? Evidence from Resting-state fMRI23
Is Mediation a Shortcut to Deter Financial Fraud? Evidence from the Mediation Scheme in China23
(In)vulnerable Managers in an Immigration Context23
Will a Moral Follower Please Stand Up (to the Machiavellian Leader)? The Effects of Machiavellian Leadership on Moral Anger and Whistleblowing23
The Impact of Visual Perspectives in Advertisements on Consumers’ Reactions to Close-to-Expiry Food23
Why and When Do Employees Feel Guilty About Observing Supervisor Ostracism? The Critical Roles of Observers’ Silence Behavior and Leader–Member Exchange Quality23
Putting Standing to Work: Does Hypocrisy Undermine a Supervisor’s Moral Standing to Blame Employees?23
Digital and Disembedded? Questioning the Territorial Embeddedness of Local Digital Platforms23
Ethical Implications of Acceleration: Perspectives From Health Professionals23
When Darkness Dims the Social Light: The Dark Triad and Prosociality in Latin America22
Reviewers 202422
“Doing the Right Thing” and “Making a Difference”: The Role of Personal Ethical Values in Diversity and Inclusion Consulting22
The Dual Faces of Leadership: CEOs’ Dark and Light Traits in Shaping Business Ethical Climate and Sustainability22
Virtue Ethics in Marketing: The Art of Crafting Tragic Brand Stories22
The Impact of Work-Related Use of Information and Communication Technologies After Hours on Time Theft22
Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Boundary Conditions of Subjectivity in Diversity and Inclusion Discourse on Investment Bank Websites22
Temporality and Meaningful Entrepreneurship21
Can Voluntary Regulation Promote Corporate Environmental Investments? Evidence from Green Factory Accreditation21
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Ethics-Oriented HRM Systems, Moral Attentiveness, and Deviant Workplace Behavior21
On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation21
‘Should I Tell?’ Moral Reflexivity in 14 Whistleblower Autobiographies21
Narcissism Dynamics and Auditor Skepticism21
Organizational Top Dog (vs. Underdog) Narratives Increase the Punishment of Corporate Moral Transgressions: When Dominance is a Liability and Prestige is an Asset20
The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Employee Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Employment Contract Type20
Relational HR Practices in Malaysian SMEs: An Ethics of Care Perspective20
Make it Right: Regulatory Intervention in Managers’ Misconduct and Corporate Risk20
The Normative Value of Making a Positive Contribution–Benefiting Others as a Core Dimension of Meaningful Work20
Rural and Urban Place Renewal in Cross-Sector Partnerships20
A Contribution to Sustainable Human Resource Development in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic20
Trees in the Forest: How Do Family Owners Make CSR Decisions in Business Groups?20
Social Credit and Trade Credit: A Coevolutionary Perspective19
Female Management Representation and Corporate Financial Fraud: Do Local Gender Norms Play a Role?19
Mapping Spiritual Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Synthesis of Past Milestones and Future Research Agenda19
Reviewing Paradox Theory in Corporate Sustainability Toward a Systems Perspective19
Navigating Contestation at the Corporate–Community Boundary: The Agonistic Work of Corporate Community Engagement Practitioners in Extractivist Projects19
Leadership and Workplace Aggression: A Meta-analysis19
Geographic Concentration of Institutional Blockholders and Workplace Safety Violations19
Beyond Common Ground: Dialogical Responsibility in Sustainable Human Resource Management18
Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO Led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives18
Navigating Ethical Paths with “Less”: Unveiling the Simplicity-Naturalness Association and its Impact on Green Consumption18
Gifts, Corporate Policies, and Individual Morality in UK’s Alternative Real Estate Lending Market18
The Business–Social Paradox of ESG Investing: Responding to Persistent Tensions over Time18
The Moral Foundations of Vaccine Passports18
How and When Does Employee Creativity Relate to Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior? Unmasking the Negative Side of Organizational Creativity18
My Oppressive Past- and Present-Day Vulnerability: Understanding How and When Authoritarian Leadership Adversely Impacts Black Employees at Work18
A Social Exchange Perspective of Leader Nepotism: The Roles of Kinship and Self-Interest18
Signaling Effects of CSR Performance on Cross-border Alliance Formation18
When Play at Work Can Foster Harassment-Based Norms: Exploring Moral Disengagement During Social Play18
How Ethical Leadership and Ethical Self-Leadership Enhance the Effects of Idiosyncratic Deals on Salesperson Work Engagement and Performance18
Clearing the Smoke: Regulations, Moral Legitimacy, and Performance in the U.S. Tobacco Industry18
Spouse Gets Angry, Company Suffers: The Impact of Spousal Anger Expression on Employee Unethical Pro-Family Behavior18
Angel Investors’ Political Ideology and Investments in Women-Owned Ventures18
Value Creating Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies of Family and Non-Family Firms: An Interventionist Perspective18
How Firms Adapt to Rising Temperatures: Evidence from U.S. Establishments18
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and CSR Performance: Evidence from China17
Taking Stock of Ethics and Compliance Programs as Anticorruption Mechanisms: An Integrative Review17
Building Common Ground: How Facilitators Bridge Between Diverging Groups in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue17
Constructing a ‘Different’ Strength: A Feminist Exploration of Vulnerability, Ethical Agency and Care17
Navigating the Ambiguity of Impact Investing: How Impact Venture Capitalists Access New Markets, Founders, and Capital17
Is Work an Act of Worship? The Impact of Implicit Religious Beliefs on Work Ethic in Secular vs. Religious Cultures17
Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship: What is the Role of the Founders’ Entrepreneurial Background?17
At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice17
The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia–Ukraine War17
Ethical Consumers and Low-Income Sellers on China’s Reward-Based Crowdfunding Platforms: Are Poverty Alleviation Campaigns More Successful?17
The Interplay Between Islamic Work Ethic, Unethical Pro Behaviors, and Moral Identity Internalization: The Moderating Role of Religiosity17
Business Firms as Moral Agents: A Kantian Response to the Corporate Autonomy Problem17
From Greenwashing to Machinewashing: A Model and Future Directions Derived from Reasoning by Analogy17
Shhh… Do Gender-Diverse Boards Prioritize Product Market Concerns Over Capital Market Incentives?17
Let’s Join Forces: Institutional Resilience and Multistakeholder Partnerships in Crises17
Exploring the Antecedents of Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior (UPB): A Meta-Analysis17
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How and When Machiavellian Leaders Demonstrate Strategic Abuse17
The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate17
Correction to: Counter-reporting sustainability from the bottom up: the case of the construction company WeBuild and dam-related conflicts16
The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance16
Ethical Tools and the Legalization of Ethical Responsibility in Organizations16
Community-Based Cooperation and New Management Ideology: Lessons from Thomas Aquinas’ Thought16
Challenges and Insights from South Asia for Imagining Ethical Organizations: Introduction to the Special Issue16
Counterproductive Work Behaviours Help Regain a Sense of Power after a Broken Promise16
Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals16
Quid Pro Quo in IPO Auctions16
Correction to: The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research16
Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy16
Robots as Moral Persons: Exploring AI Ethics in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model16
Should They Go, or May They Stay: Companies in Aggressor States16
Mixed Feelings About Supervisors: The Effect of LMX Ambivalence on Supervisor-Directed Behaviors16
Experimental Effects of Institutionalizing Co-determination by a Procedurally Fair Bidding Rule16
Exploring Bypass Practices on Sharing Platforms: A Typology of Users Who Bypass and Those Who Don’t16
Toward Social Justification for Pecuniary and Other Externalities: Building on Kogelmann and Carroll’s Intervention16
How Identity Work Drives Ethical Conduct in Organizations: The Case of Organizational Citizenship Behavior16
Who are the Empowered Employees: Those with High Work Performance or High Ethical Behavior?16
Between Intensity and Diversity: Leveraging the Role of Place in Cross-Sector Partnerships16
Cultivating CSR: The Artistic Influence of Top Executives on Corporate Responsibility16
A Meta-Analytical Assessment of the Effect of Deontological Evaluations and Teleological Evaluations on Ethical Judgments/Intentions15
Universal Design for the Workplace: Ethical Considerations Regarding the Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities15
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
Promoting Cooperation in an Unequal World: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Transparency and Punishment15
Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors15
Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership15
Coevolution of Strategy, Innovation and Ethics14
‘I Can Only Do My Best and Leave the Rest to God”: Religious/Spiritual Coping Strategies of African Nurses in the UK14
Police Violence as Organizational Enactment of the State of Exception14
A Moral Evaluation of LBOs14
Is It Time to Reclaim the ‘Ethics’ in Business Ethics Education?14
Don’t Just Trust Your Gut: The Importance of Normative Deliberation to Ethical Decision-Making at Work14
The Devil is in the Details: Sexual Harassment e-Training Design Choices and Perceived Messenger Integrity14
Entitlement Versus Obligation: The Role of Attributed Motives in Subordinate Reactions to Leader Leniency14
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