Business Ethics

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Summary Business ethics is the application of ethical theories and concepts to activity within and between commercial enterprises, and between commercial enterprises and their broader environment. It is a wide range of activity, and no brief list can be made of the issues it raises. The safety of working practices; the fairness of recruitment; the transparency of financial accounting; the promptness of payments to suppliers; the degree of permissible aggression between competitors: all come within the range of the subject. So do relations between businesses and consumers, local communities, national governments, and ecosystems. Many, but not all, of these issues can be understood to bear on distinct, recognized groups with their own stakes in a business: employees, shareholders, consumers, and so on. A central question concerns how businesses ought to weigh the interests of different stakeholders against each other; particularly what moral import to give to profit-making (presumably in the interest of shareholders in large corporations).
Key works Much of business ethics starts from Milton Friedman's provocative article "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits" (reprinted in Snoeyenbos et al 1992, Jennings 2002, ...). Some well-cited expressions of alternative views are Freeman 1994...
Introductions Some introductions by Snoeyenbos et al 1992, Shaw 2003.
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  1. Effects of board and audit committee characteristics on audit delay in the Nigerian oil and gas sector.Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al Faryan, Ismaila Yusuf & Ozigi Omoyi Obeitoh - 2023 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 1 (1).
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  2. From Trauma to Entertainment: An Examination of Netflix’s Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Series.Sorin M. S. Krammer - forthcoming - Business Ethics Quarterly:1-5.
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  3. Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program.Alysha Kate Shivji - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-20.
    This paper investigates necessary conditions for developing a participatory, rightsholder-driven approach to remedy for business-related human rights abuses by analyzing findings from a case study with the Fair Food Program. With the inclusion of human rights into discussions of business ethics and CSR, scholars and practitioners have made calls for participatory approaches to remedy to address cases of human rights abuses. However, a gap remains in our understanding of how to operationalize participatory approaches in a manner that empowers rightsholders, particularly (...)
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  4. Organizational Top Dog (vs. Underdog) Narratives Increase the Punishment of Corporate Moral Transgressions: When Dominance is a Liability and Prestige is an Asset.Anika Schumacher & Robert Mai - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-18.
    Although company narratives frequently emphasize impressive sales numbers and market leadership, such an organizational “top dog” narrative can backfire when companies are accused of engaging in unethical conduct. This research demonstrates, through a series of nine (_N_ = 3872) experimental studies, that an organizational top dog (vs. underdog) narrative increases the intended punishment of company moral transgressions but not non-moral transgressions. Such differences in intended punishment emerge because observers infer that organizations with a top dog narrative use predominantly dominance-based strategies (...)
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  5. Under Pressure: LMX Drives Employee Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior via Threat Appraisals.Chen Tang, Ying Chen, Wu Wei & Daniel A. Newman - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-14.
    Drawing on the transactional model of stress and leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, we examine the role of performance pressure in relation to unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB). We propose that (1) employee perceived performance pressure and LMX interact to increase employees’ willingness to engage in UPB, and (2) employees’ threat appraisal mediates this interaction effect. The results from two studies based on samples of employees in the United States and China supported our theoretical model. We found that LMX moderated the relation (...)
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  6. Exercising the “Right to Repair”: A Customer’s Perspective.Davit Marikyan & Savvas Papagiannidis - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-27.
    Concerns over the carbon footprint resulting from the manufacturing, usage and disposal of hardware have been growing. The right-to-repair legislation was introduced to promote sustainable utilisation of hardware by encouraging stakeholders to prolong the lifetime of products, such as electronic devices. As there is little empirical evidence from a consumer perspective on exercising the right to repair, this study aims firstly to examine the factors that underpin consumers’ intention to repair their hardware and secondly to investigate the perceived outcomes of (...)
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  7. Making Time to Care, and Caring for Time: ‘Tricking Time’ to Cope with Conflicting Temporalities in a Child Protection Agency.Anne Antoni, Juliane Reinecke & Marianna Fotaki - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):645-663.
    Care—concern for and attending to the needs of the particular other we take responsibility—requires enacting time in a way that clashes with the industrial ‘clock time’ dominating our lives. Ethicists of care have highlighted the tensions between the temporalities involved in caring as a situated, relational and processual practice and the organization of care work according to standardized clock time. Yet, the practice of care work within bureaucratic work organizations seems to reconcile temporal demands of care and clock time. In (...)
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  8. Linking Temporal Landmarks to Voluntary Simplicity: The Mediating Roles of Self-Transcendence and Self-Enhancement.Siyun Chen & Haiying Wei - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):693-708.
    Voluntary simplicity (VS) refers to a minimalistic lifestyle of conscious, ecological, and ethical consumption, which is conducive to individual, societal, and environmental well-being. For policymakers and business managers, a key to leveraging this consumer shift is to promote persuasive appeals effectively. This research theorizes that the two forms of VS appeals are systematically associated with distinct temporal landmarks. In particular, we demonstrate that consumers are more likely to engage in biospheric voluntary simplicity (BVS) when priming a temporal landmark as the (...)
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  9. Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory.Hartmut Rosa & Bettina Hollstein - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):709-723.
    In modern capitalist societies, companies are exposed to enormous pressure to accelerate. However, it has increasingly become apparent that the social and economic acceleration which is the result of systemic imperatives tends to produce conflict both on the micro-level of personal temporal patterns and rhythms and on the macro-ecological level, where it tends to undermine the proper times for natural regeneration and reproduction. Corporations are increasingly called upon as corporate citizens to fulfil their responsibilities to stakeholders such as employees or (...)
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  10. Managerial Short-Termism and Corporate Social Performance: The Moderating Role of External Monitoring.Stephen J. Smulowitz, Didier Cossin & Hongze Lu - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):759-778.
    While commentators have long decried managerial short-termism, the deleterious effects of managerial short-termism on corporate social performance (CSP), and how to ameliorate those negative effects, remain underexplored. Specifically, due to the difficulty of unobtrusively measuring what is fundamentally a cognition in managers, empirical evidence at the organizational level of managerial short-termism’s effect on CSP is relatively sparse. Here, we measure managerial short-termism by content analyzing firms’ publicly filed annual reports (10-Ks). Using a combined dataset for 1,665 U.S. firms for the (...)
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  11. Applying a Lens of Temporality to Better Understand Voice About Unethical Behaviour.Sarah Brooks, John Richmond & John Blenkinsopp - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):681-692.
    The relationship between time and voice about unethical behaviour has been highlighted as a key area for exploration within the voice and silence field (Morrison Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 10:79–107, 2023). Previous studies have made only modest progress in this area, so we present a temporal lens which can act as a guide for others wishing to better understand the role of time and voice. Applying the concept of theory adaptation (Jaakkola AMS Review 10:18–26, 2020), a (...)
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  12. Ethical Implications of Acceleration: Perspectives From Health Professionals.Agathe Morinière - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):741-758.
    Time is a critical issue for organizations, especially for healthcare organizations. In the last three decades, concerns over the transformation of healthcare organizations have increasingly gained attention in the literature, indicating how task duration has been reduced to improve clinical-workflow efficiency. This article seeks to raise questions about the experience of acceleration and the ways in which this brings ethical implications to the fore for health professionals within healthcare organizations. Current approaches to acceleration fail to place ethical considerations as their (...)
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  13. Ethics, Tradition and Temporality in Craft Work: The Case of Japanese Mingei.Yutaka Yamauchi & Robin Holt - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):827-843.
    Based on an empirical illustration of Onta pottery and more broadly a discussion of the Japanese Mingei movement, we study the intimacy between craft work, ethics and time. We conceptualize craft work through the temporal structure of tradition, to which we find three aspects: generational rhythms of making; cycles of use and re-use amongst consumers and a commitment to historically and naturally attuned communities. We argue these temporal structures of tradition in craftwork are animated by two contrasting but co-existing ideas (...)
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  14. Temporality and Meaningful Entrepreneurship.François Henry & Sandrine Frémeaux - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):725-739.
    Temporality is an under-researched area in entrepreneurship and business ethics, even though entrepreneurs are particularly affected by a fast-paced work environment. How do they position themselves in relation to the acceleration of time in order to construct meaning for their activity? We draw on fifty-four semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurs to outline the different ways in which they perceive a faster pace of work. We show how the meaning they give to their activity varies according to whether they accept or resist (...)
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  15. In Search of Regained Time? Autism and Organizational [A]temporality in the Light of Humanistic Management.Coralie Fiori-Khayat - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):665-679.
    This paper investigates the relationship that people with high functioning autism have with organizational temporality by considering this operationalization within the framework of humanistic management. To do so, it proposes an analysis based on seven propositions. Autism is a disorder that is still poorly understood and often linked to social depictions that are as unfounded as they are repulsive. It remains an unexplored area of study in the field of management sciences. Existing scholarship has established that people with autism have (...)
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  16. Temporality and Ethics: Timeliness of Ethical Perspectives on Temporality in Times of Crisis.Wendelin Kuepers, David M. Wasieleski & Gunter Schumacher - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):629-643.
    This introductory piece to the special issue presents in a broad sense, issues, and concepts related to temporality and ethics in business and society. In particular, this article rethinking time and temporality while developing a more critical understanding of the same, especially in organizing and managing, helps processing specific ethical questions and issues as well as more sustainable ways by reconstructing the past and relating differently to the presence and future in organisation studies and practice (Wenzel et al. in Organ (...)
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  17. Ethical and Islamic Banking Compared from a Time-Based Perspective.Francesc Relano - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):795-805.
    This conceptual paper explores and compares the ethical dimension of Islamic and so-called ethical banks. The investigation is made in two succeeding steps. First, an individual analysis as regards the respective level of correspondence between ethical principles and business practice. For the latter, a time-based perspective is adopted. Second, a side-by-side comparison of their overall “ethical coherence gap”. The results show that this gap is wider in the case of Islamic banks. The final part of the paper draws up three (...)
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  18. No Time for Ethics: How and When Time Pressure Leads to Abusive Supervisory Behavior.Zhe Zhang & Xingze Jia - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):807-825.
    We explore in this study whether, how, and when time pressure leads to abusive supervisory behavior. Based on the attentional focus model, we propose that time pressure impairs supervisors’ moral awareness, which increases their subsequent abusive supervisory behavior. We also propose that the trait mindfulness of supervisors mitigates the indirect effect of time pressure on abusive supervisory behavior through moral awareness. Based on an experiment conducted by using eye-tracking methods, Study 1 tests and provides support for the relationships between time (...)
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  19. Habitual Leadership Ethics: Timelessness and Virtuous Leadership in the Jesuit Order.Jose Bento da Silva, Keith Grint, Sandra Pereira, Ulf Thoene & Rene Wiedner - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (4):779-793.
    This paper is about the relationship between leadership, organisational morals, and temporality. We argue that engaging with questions of time and temporality may help us overcome the overly agentic view of organisational morals and leadership ethics that dominates extant literature. Our analysis of the role of time in organizational morals and leadership ethics starts from a virtue-based approach to leading large-scale moral endeavours. We ask: how can we account for organizational morality across generations and independently of the leader? To address (...)
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  20. Kōgyō dōtoku.Kakugorō Inoue (ed.) - 1935 - Tōkyō: Kokumin Kōgyō Gakuin.
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  21. An Essay about a Philosophical Attitude in Management and Organization Studies Based on Parrhesia.Jesus Rodriguez-Pomeda - 2023 - Philosophy of Management 22 (4):587-618.
    Management and organization studies (MOS) scholarship is at a crossroads. The grand challenges (such as the climate emergency) humankind must face today require an improved contribution from all knowledge fields. The number of academics who criticize the lack of influence and social impact of MOS has recently grown. The scientific field structure of MOS is based on its members’ accumulation of symbolic capital. This structure hinders speaking truth to the elite dominating neoliberal society. Our literature review suggested that a deeper (...)
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  22. Secundum Naturam Vivere: Stoic Thoughts of Greco-Roman Antiquity on Nature and Their Relation to the Concepts of Sustainability, Frugality, and Environmental Protection in the Anthropocene.Hendrik Müller - 2023 - Philosophy of Management 22 (4):619-628.
    This paper wants to shed light on the way the philosophical school of Stoicsm in Greco-Roman antiquity has dealt with the relationship of men and nature by pointing out to some of the key texts in which these issues are mentioned. Although the modern concept of sustainability or environmental protection did not really exist in antiquity, the Stoa was convinced that individual decisions had a direct impact on this world. Following the concept of environmental humanities, the ancient texts and authors (...)
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  23. Are Psychological Theories on Self-Awareness in Leadership Research Shaping Masters not Servant Leaders?Anne Sebastian & Matthias P. Hühn - 2023 - Philosophy of Management 22 (4):571-586.
    Psychologists and moral philosophers have much to say about self-awareness and so it is no surprise that in leadership research self-awareness also has come to play an important role. For some time now, leadership research has been dominated by psychologists and we argue that their version of the self-awareness is very thin. It is empty of morality and therefore offers only a partial understanding of humanity. That make its conclusions for leadership ineffective and unethical. Psychology-driven approaches to leadership stress effectiveness: (...)
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  24. A Sound Proposition that may not be Enough.César González-Cantón - 2023 - Philosophy of Management 22 (4):563-570.
    In this book, the author proposes an understanding of corporate responsibility that can be captured in the answer to the following question: What are the implications for companies, as main drivers of economic activity (Part III), of the idea that the purpose of the economy is to create wealth (Part I) within the normative-ethical framework of human rights (Part II)? Enderle crafts a solid, well-thought and comprehensive account of corporate responsibility as a means to create wealth, understood in an expansive (...)
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  25. Toward a Constructive Critique of Managerial Agency: MacIntyre’s Contribution to Strategy as Practice.Caleb Bernacchio - 2023 - Philosophy of Management 22 (4):539-561.
    MacIntyre’s distinctive version of practice theory has already influenced strategy as practice research but his approach has further relevance to the field. The MacIntyrean approach further focuses attention on joint production as an organization-wide practice that potentially encompasses and integrates sub-organizational practices. It also highlights the way that ordinary organization members engage in modes of praxis in order to integrate productive practices in the service of morally salient, organizational goals, facilitating collaboration and long-term value creation, illustrating how participation in joint (...)
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  26. Writing, Violence and Writing the Non-Western Other in Business Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Alterity.Dhammika Jayawardena - 2023 - Philosophy of Management 22 (4):521-538.
    This article examines how the textual rendering of the non-Western Other in Business Ethics in the West often remains a misrepresentation. Informed by the Derridean ethico-political project on writing/violence and ethics, the article analyzes the writing of this Other in Western academic production of Business Ethics, through a consideration of writing on the Buddhist doctrine of karma. It shows that this writing makes the Other’s presence in (writing) Business Ethics an absence–presence. The article argues that what is absent in such (...)
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  27. A Consideration of Project Ontology.Brian Tebbitt - 2023 - Philosophy of Management 22 (4):505-520.
    In this essay, I engage in ontological analysis beginning with questions like “What is a project?”, “What is a process?”, and “What is project failure?” In search of a basic ontology of projects, primarily critiquing and expanding on parts of Frame (2006), I propose a novel theory of projects as sets of propositions, contrast it with a current (albeit informal) theory of projects, and suggest that a project is best understood as a sort of propositional entity, a particular set of (...)
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  28. The ripple effect of organisational inclusiveness on perception of ethical climate - an empirical investigation.P. C. Gita & Sheeja Krishnakumar - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 18 (1):84-103.
    Business ethics is considered a key performance indicator for multiple stakeholders such as consumers, suppliers, shareholders, management and society. The adherence to business ethics has changed the way organisations function. The study argues that inclusiveness in an organisation drives several positive outcomes, including the perception of ethical climate. The study also tries to break the loop that suggests inclusiveness is practiced to enable the company to confirm legal requirements instead of a proactive approach. A conclusive research method was adopted in (...)
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  29. Social ties, group dynamics, and executive compensation: an integrative two-stage framework.Won-Yong Oh, Rami Jung & Young Kyun Chang - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 18 (1):45-63.
    While the effect of top executives' social networks on their compensations has received substantial scholarly attention, little effort has been made to integrate segmented views to offer more complete understanding of this effect. In this paper, we propose an integrative two-stage model by taking both economic and socio-political views into account. We theorise that some characteristics of top executive's outside social ties are positively related to firm performance, and those relationships are conditioned by external and internal strategic contexts, such as (...)
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  30. Credit reporting agency stakeholder and CSR reporting linkages.Edward T. Vieira Jr, Susan Grantham & Susan D. Sampson - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 18 (1):64-83.
    This Experian Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report case study was informed by the 3Ps of sustainability along with legal, ethical, economic, and philanthropic CSR practices. Text network analysis yielded keywords, an overall theme, and 15 sub-themes. In its CSR report, Experian described and emphasised how its services can help consumers develop and protect their financial identity, which lead to greater choices, opportunities, and a sustainable quality life. At the same time, some of Experian's business practices suggest a misalignment with stated (...)
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  31. The moderating role of CEO race on the relationship between CEO masculinity and company financial performance.Tamer Elsheikh, Hafiza Aishah Hashim, Nor Raihan Mohamad, Khaled Hussainey & Faozi A. Almaqtari - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 18 (1):104-129.
    The paper investigates the moderating effect of CEO race on the relationship between CEO masculinity and company performance. The sample includes 260 companies listed on the Bursa Malaysia for the period from 2009 to 2019. Data extracted for 405 unique CEOs from different races (Malay, Chinese, Indian, and others). The paper uses two indicators of CEO masculinity, facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) and testosterone level (Tsh). The fWHR of CEOs is measured using artificial intelligence (Python code/c). In addition, a contemporary model (...)
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  32. Corporate governance in real estate investment trusts: a systematic literature review and ideas for future research.Michail Pazarskis, Stergios Galanis, Andreas G. Koutoupis & Athina Stavrou - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 18 (1):1-26.
    Although much has been written globally about the key issues of corporate governance in REITs, there are not enough studies inspired by the systematic literature review method. This study reviews the literature on corporate governance in real estate investment trusts (REITs) published after 2004 and addresses three interrelated research questions. We examined 77 peer-reviewed journal articles using a systematic literature review approach. We found that there has been a rise in studies since 2010, with a brief decrease in 2015 and (...)
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  33. Leader Authenticity and Ethics: A Heideggerian Perspective.Florence Villesèche, Anders Klitmøller & Cathrine Bjørnholt Michaelsen - forthcoming - Business Ethics Quarterly:1-20.
    In the shadow of various business scandals and societal crises, scholars and practitioners have developed a growing interest in authentic leadership. This approach to leadership assumes that leaders may access and leverage their “true selves” and “core values” and that the combination of these two elements forms the basis from which they act resolutely, lead ethically, and benefit others. Drawing on Heidegger’s work, we argue that a concern for authenticity can indeed instigate a leadership ethic, albeit one that acknowledges the (...)
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  34. Psychological Reactance to Leader Moral Hypocrisy.McKenzie R. Rees, Isaac H. Smith & Andrew T. Soderberg - forthcoming - Business Ethics Quarterly:1-28.
    Drawing on early work on ethical leadership, we argue that when leaders engage in leader moral hypocrisy (i.e., ethical promotion without ethical demonstration), followers can experience psychological reactance—a negative response to a perceived restriction of freedom—which can have negative downstream consequences. In a survey of employee–manager dyads (study 1), we demonstrate that leader moral hypocrisy is positively associated with follower psychological reactance, which increases follower deviance. In two subsequent laboratory experiments, we find similar patterns of results (study 2) and explore (...)
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  35. How Culture Displaced Structural Reform: Problem Definition, Marketization, and Neoliberal Myths in Bank Regulation.Anette Mikes & Michael Power - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-21.
    We use content analysis to show that the diagnosis of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 shifted significantly from a focus on the need for structural change in the banking industry to an emphasis on culture and reform at the organizational level. We consider four overlapping subsystems in which this shift in problem–solution clusters played out—political, regulatory, legal, and consulting—and show that the “structural reform agenda,” which was initially strong and publicly prominent in the political arena, lost attention. Over time it (...)
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  36. To Conform or Not to Conform? The Role of Social Status and Firm Corporate Social Responsibility.Yingzhao Xiao, Liuyang Xue, David Ahlstrom, Chundong Zheng & Xiling Hao - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-23.
    Whether firms in transition economies undertake corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an important research topic in business ethics. Applying the middle-status conformity perspective, this study uses listed companies in the transition economy of China from 2010 to 2020 to assess the influence of social status on CSR conformity. The empirical findings revealed an inverted U-shaped relationship between social status and CSR conformity. That is, firms with low- or high-level status were less inclined to adopt CSR practices than the firms with (...)
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  37. When and How Knowledge Hiding Motivates Perpetrators' Organizational Citizenship Behavior.Wei Pan, Egan Lua, Zaoli Yang & Yi Su - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-20.
    Research on knowledge hiding has largely focused on its antecedents while overlooking its consequences. Drawing on moral cleansing theory, we adopt a “perpetrator-centric view” and posit that employees who engage in playing dumb and evasive hiding–two specific knowledge hiding behaviors that involve deception–will subsequently perform more organizational citizenship behavior directed toward individuals (OCB-I) because they perceive a loss of moral credits following their moral transgression. Further, we propose that the indirect effects are contingent on perpetrators’ moral identity internalization. We tested (...)
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  38. Fostering Urban Inclusive Green Growth: Does Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Matter?Haitao Wu, Shiyue Luo, Suixin Li, Yan Xue & Yu Hao - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-22.
    Urban inclusive green growth (UIGG) refers to the synergetic enhancement of the economy, the environment, and the society in a city. Achieving such enhancement requires addressing a series of problems in the development of urbanization, such as unemployment, lack of access to education, insufficient medical resources, inequity, and environmental pollution. As firms are critical to city development and urbanization, whether they practice corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays a crucial part in UIGG. In this study, we focus on Chinese cities as (...)
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  39. 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 Studies and Options for Addressing Ethical Challenges by B.C. Stahl, D. Schroeder, and R. Rodrigues; and AI Ethics by M. Coeckelbergh. [REVIEW]Christian Goglin - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (3):623-627.
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  40. Role of eco-management practices in determining corporate sustainable development in China: a resource-based perspective.Xinhui Sun, Khwaja Naveed, Mohit Srivastava & Fahad Khalid - 2023 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 1 (1).
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  41. Board of directors and firm performance: a dynamic approach.Nuria Alcalde & Isabel Acero Fraile - 2023 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 1 (1).
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  42. Laughters Nurturing Tears for Leaders and Organizations: The Implications of Leader Humor for Leader Workplace Deviance.Ye Li, Yajun Zhang, Lu Lu, Junwei Zhang & Xiuli Sun - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (3):603-621.
    Extant research has identified various effects of leader humor on subordinates and work groups. In contrast, less research has explored the influence of leader humor on leaders themselves and leaders’ subsequent behaviors. To address these issues, we drew from ego depletion theory and investigated when and how leader humor impacted leader workplace deviance. We argued that leader humor along with high impression management motive would bring increased ego depletion to leaders themselves and ultimately result in more leader workplace deviance. We (...)
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  43. Goal-Based Private Sustainability Governance and Its Paradoxes in the Indonesian Palm Oil Sector.Janina Grabs & Rachael D. Garrett - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (3):467-507.
    In response to stakeholder pressure, companies increasingly make ambitious forward-looking sustainability commitments. They then draw on corporate policies with varying degrees of alignment to disseminate and enforce corresponding behavioral rules among their suppliers and business partners. This goal-based turn in private sustainability governance has important implications for its likely environmental and social outcomes. Drawing on paradox theory, this article uses a case study of zero-deforestation commitments in the Indonesian palm oil sector to argue that goal-based private sustainability governance’s characteristics set (...)
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  44. Manufacturing Motivation in the Mundane: Servant Leadership’s Influence on Employees’ Intrinsic Motivation and Performance.Chad A. Hartnell, Amanda Christensen-Salem, Fred O. Walumbwa, Derek J. Stotler, Flora F. T. Chiang & Thomas A. Birtch - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (3):533-552.
    The manufacturing industry faces a trend in which employees’ work processes are being redesigned into simple, repetitive tasks that maximize performance and efficiency. This neo-Tayloristic business model reduces social interactions and stifles relationship building, leading to disgruntled employees and raising questions about leaders’ moral obligation as to the mechanisms they use to enhance employees’ performance at work. As an alternative to redesigning work processes, we contend that servant leaders can enhance employees’ overall performance by cultivating positive interpersonal dynamics at work (...)
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  45. 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 Studies and Options for Addressing Ethical Challenges by B.C. Stahl, D. Schroeder, and R. Rodrigues; and AI Ethics by M. Coeckelbergh: Ethical Machines: Your concise guide to totally unbiased, transparent, and respectful AI, Harvard Business Review Press, 2022, 224 pp., ISBN 9781647822811; Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies and Options for Addressing Ethical Challenges, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023, 116 pp., ISBN 9783031170409; AI Ethics, The MIT Press, 2020, 248 pp., ISBN 9780262538190. [REVIEW]Christian Goglin - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (3):623-627.
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  46. The Invisible Racialized Minority Entrepreneur: Using White Solipsism to Explain the White Space.Rosanna Garcia & Daniel W. Baack - 2022 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (3):397-418.
    Few studies in the business ethics literature explore marginalized populations, such as the racially minoritized entrepreneur. This absence is an ethical issue for the business academy as it limits the advancement of racial epistemologies. This study explores how this exclusionary space emerges within the academy by identifying white solipsistic behavior, an ‘othering’ of minoritized populations. Using a multi-method approach, we find the business literature homogenizes the racially minoritized business owner regardless of race/ethnic origin and categorizes them as lacking in comparison (...)
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  47. The Values Change Management Cycle: Ethical Change Management.Dinah Payne, Cherie Trumbach & Rajni Soharu - 2022 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (3):429-440.
    Culture is the most difficult thing about an organization to change in a lasting way. Our paper is predicated upon the idea that better ethics leadership through change is the foundation to more successful implementation of change. Ethical culture will enable the firm to initiate the change process from a stronger position: the obstacles to change such as mistrust, fear of uncertainty, failure of communication and empowerment will be easier to overcome in an atmosphere pursuing the ethically correct approach, combining (...)
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  48. Winning the Heart and Shaping the Mind with “Serious Play”: The Efficacy of Social Entrepreneurship Comics as Ethical Business Pedagogy.Yanto Chandra & Qian Jin - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (3):441-465.
    Social entrepreneurship (SE) is gaining increasing legitimacy as a form of ethical business practice and a solution to various societal challenges. Despite the burgeoning interest in SE in the realms of ethical business scholarship and business ethics education, new pedagogical developments have been limited. To advance SE pedagogy, we produced a new multimedia-based tool consisting of two SE-focused comics and evaluated their efficacy in “winning the hearts and shaping the minds” of learners in an experimental setting. We tested the effects (...)
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  49. What Sal Owes Mookie: What Do The Right Thing and Mangrove Teach us About Business Ethics.Abraham Singer - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (3):419-427.
    The aim of this paper is to discuss popular conceptions of business ethics and their relationship to the problem of racial injustice by way of reviewing Spike Lee’s (1989) _Do the Right Thing_. Taking place on one day in late 80’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, and set against a tense decade of racial conflict in New York City, Spike Lee’s masterpiece has deeply influenced American discourse on race, capturing many of the complex interpersonal dynamics that are both constitutive and consequence of American racial (...)
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  50. An Organizational Capacity for Trustworthiness: A Dynamic Routines Perspective.Robert Hurley - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 188 (3):589-601.
    There is an impressive literature on organizational capacities that enable specific types of performance, but no work has been done on whether such capabilities extend to an organizational capacity for trustworthiness (CFT). This paper introduces the notion of a capacity for trustworthiness (CFT) defined as the collective capability of the organization to produce positive signals of trustworthiness to stakeholders. The antecedents to the CFT are bundles of organization routines that enable the firm to manifest trustworthiness and balance attending to both (...)
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