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 2001, Jennings 2002, ...). Some well-cited expressions of alternative views are Freeman 1994...
Introductions Some introductions by Snoeyenbos et al 2001, Shaw 2003.
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  1. The Hidden Cost of Unrest: The Impacts of Turnover Intentions on Employee Time Theft.Quan Li, Zhuolin She & Mengzhen Guo - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-16.
    Research on turnover intention has primarily focused on its antecedents and how it translates into actual turnover behavior. We shift the focus away from these antecedents and instead examine the unethical consequences that turnover intention generates for organizations. Drawing on social cognitive theory, we propose that turnover intentions lead to employees’ moral disengagement, which in turn influences their time theft behaviors. Furthermore, we argue that trait gratitude and a caring ethical climate moderate the relationship between turnover intentions and moral disengagement, (...)
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  2. Unpacking and Extending Moral Injury: Comments on Nielsen et al. (2024).Matthew P. Crayne - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-12.
    Moral injury is a unique form of psychosocial trauma caused by the violation of deeply held values. Predominantly studied in military and clinical psychology, recent calls for expansion to other fields have led to increased interest in organizational science. However, the general dearth of research and theory on moral injury in these disciplines has created space for prior literature to be misunderstood or misrepresented in a way that could unintentionally dilute the construct and thereby future research. Such is the case, (...)
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  3. Front Running 2.0: An Ethical Evaluation of Selected Strategies of High-frequency Traders from a Non-utilitarian Perspective. [REVIEW]Anna Blachnio-Parzych - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-11.
    The ethical evaluation of high-frequency trading strategies is a controversial subject. On the one hand, for some authors the strategies are fraudulent in nature, or at least may lead to an unfair advantage over other traders. On the other hand, there are claims that such behaviours are beneficial for the market as a whole and should be accepted. An analysis of the arguments leads to the conclusion that the authors make different assumptions concerning the way fairness in capital markets is (...)
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  4. Every Rose Has Its Thorns - How Exemplars Manage the Tensions in Inclusive Leadership.Wei Zheng, Jennifer Y. Kim & Ronit Kark - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-21.
    In our increasingly polarizing world, inclusive leadership practices that aim to foster belongingness and uniqueness for all organizational members become essential to individual and organizational thriving. However, according to optimal distinctiveness theory, inclusive efforts may involve managing the tension between meeting the needs for belongingness and uniqueness, which can be compounded in contexts with diverse representations of subgroups. This tension has received limited attention in the conceptualization of inclusive leadership, which constrains further theory development. To better understand this issue, we (...)
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  5. Reconciling with the Earth and Peoples: The Role of the Peoplehood Model in Developing an Ethical Form of Indigenous Resurgence.Grace H. Fan, Eli Enns, Sayo Masso & Zoe A. Cunliffe - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-21.
    This study builds new theory on how historically marginalized actors reconstruct Indigenous ways of organizing to pursue community resurgence, based on a longitudinal study of Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation in British Columbia, Canada. We found that Tla-o-qui-aht (“people of the Tla-o-qui”) developed an ethical process of Indigenous resurgence through the establishment of Tribal Parks (vs. National Parks). Specifically, Tla-o-qui-aht enacted a peoplehood model (an Indigenous concept) to pursue Indigenous resurgence. Two processes were involved: reviving peoplehood and reclaiming a responsibility-based ethic. Reviving (...)
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  6. Correction to: Value, Values, and Valuation: The Marketization of Charitable Foundation Impact Investing.Kirsten Andersen & Rebecca Tekula - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-1.
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  7. 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 Primary.Joel Lansing Reed - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-20.
    Political advertising ethics has long been dominated by an adherence to the norms of democratic idealism or the highly situational ethics of act utilitarianism. This article proposes an alternative system of political advertising ethics grounded in Brandt’s ideal moral code theory, a form of rules-based utilitarianism. To illustrate the relative advantage of rule utilitarianism, the author investigates the ethics of advertising campaigns aimed at intervening in an opposing party’s primary. The past decade has seen a dramatic resurgence in Democratic and (...)
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  8. The Impact of Antagonistic Narcissism on Auditor Skepticism with Moderation by Client Financial and ESG Performance.Steven E. Kaszak, Philip M. J. Reckers & Alan Reinstein - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-20.
    Capital markets depend on truthful corporate financial reporting. To assure financial statement integrity, auditors serve a critical gatekeeper role between corporations and investors. While public corporations pay audit fees, auditors ultimately serve the public interest and must uphold the highest standards of ethical conduct. To fulfill this public trust, auditors must remain independent of clients and be skeptical of potentially biased reporting. However, despite recent safeguards, research indicates that threats to professional skepticism persist. Drawing from social psychology, we argue that (...)
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  9. Determinants, Interests and Potential Risks: A Systematic Review of Corporate Water Responsibility Management.Xuhui Peng, Aila Khan, Yunqing Su, Yunqian Bai, Qingliang Tang & Jingduan Li - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-24.
    The escalating global water crisis has driven increased academic attention on corporate water responsibility management (WRM). However, research into corporate WRM remains limited and fragmented, and a holistic understanding of WRM is lacking. Hence, to increase the awareness on WRM, we systematically reviewed 105 research articles from the Scopus and Web of Science databases, spanning years 2004–2024. Through this review, we identified key determinants, interests, potential risks, and opportunities for future research from the existing literature. Moreover, we constructed an integrated (...)
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  10. Escape the Kingdom! Family Business Metaphors in the French Business Press and their Implications for Gendered Representations.Audrey Missonier, Christina Constantinidis & Franck Celhay - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-16.
    Gender biases in the representation of family businesses (FBs) within the business media are subtle, yet pervasive. While previous research emphasised the media’s pivotal role in shaping gender identities, roles, and norms, scant attention has been paid to gendered representations of FBs in the press. Yet FBs are not only the most common form of business organisation, but also a unique workplace context where narratives about women are intertwined with narratives about men, the family, the organisation itself, and the conduct (...)
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  11. The Potential and Limitations of Artificial Colleagues.Friedemann Bieber & Charlotte Franziska Unruh - 2025 - Philosophy and Technology 38 (2):1-20.
    This article assesses the potential of artificial colleagues to help us realise the goods of collegial relationships and discusses its practical implications. In speaking of artificial colleagues, it refers to AI-based agential systems in the workplace. The article proceeds in three steps. First, it develops a comprehensive account of the goods of collegial relationships. It argues that, in addition to goods at the individual level, collegial relationships can provide valuable goods at the social level. Second, it argues that artificial colleagues (...)
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  12. (2 other versions)Business ethics.William H. Shaw - 2014 - Singapore: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
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  13. (4 other versions)Business ethics now.Andrew Ghillyer - 2014 - New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill.
    Understanding ethics -- Defining business ethics -- Organizational ethics -- Corporate social responsibility -- Corporate governance -- The role of government -- Blowing the whistle -- Ethics and technology -- Ethics and globalization -- Making it stick : doing what's right in a competitive market.
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  14. (4 other versions)Organizational ethics: a practical approach.Craig E. Johnson - 2016 - Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE.
    We are constantly faced with ethical decisions, no matter what organizations we join. The ethical choices we make determine the health of our businesses, schools, government agencies, religious congregations, charities, and other institutions. Our ethical decisions also determine our career success or failure. Bestselling author, Craig E. Johnson, shows how we can develop our ethical competence, just as we develop our abilities to manage or oversee operations. Every chapter of Organizational Ethics: A Practical Approach, Third Edition provides readers with opportunities (...)
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  15. (1 other version)Business ethics: best practices for designing and managing ethical organizations.Denis Collins - 2019 - Los Angeles: SAGE.
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  16. (1 other version)Business & society: ethics, sustainability, and stakeholder management.Archie B. Carroll, Jill A. Brown & Ann K. Buchholtz - 2018 - Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
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  17. When Play at Work Can Foster Harassment-Based Norms: Exploring Moral Disengagement During Social Play.Al-Karim Samnani - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-16.
    Play at work has received burgeoning interest in recent years. This research has largely focused on its positive outcomes despite fragmented evidence that play at work can produce behaviors such as clowning, teasing, pranking, and telling jokes at others’ expense. This manuscript constructs theory highlighting the evolving nature of disclosures in explaining how social play can produce harassment norms. This theory is distilled into four broad stages. In the first stage, employees participating in social play develop greater personal comfort with (...)
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  18. Salespeople Moral Disengagement and Duty Orientation: Examining the Influence of Peers’ Unethical Behavior and Customer Incivility.Bindu Gupta, Aastha Dhoopar, Rakesh Singh & Sandeep Puri - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-16.
    Moral disengagement among salespeople is a psychological mechanism that enables individuals to rationalize unethical behavior, often in response to competitive pressures and organizational demands. This study examines how salespeople's moral disengagement affects their sense of duty orientation while also analyzing the role of social context in shaping moral disengagement. Drawing upon social cognitive theory, we propose a model wherein peers' unethical behavior induces moral disengagement among salespeople, subsequently influencing their duty orientation. Additionally, we suggest that customer incivility moderates the relationship (...)
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  19. You Win Some, You Lose Some: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of the Trade-Off Impacts of Leader High Performance Expectations.Zhen Wang, Huan Chen, Xia Liu & Hao Zhong - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-22.
    While leaders’ high performance expectations (LHPEs) are often considered and proposed as an effective performance management tool, this viewpoint may be insufficient because it solely considers the performance gains without addressing potential ethical costs. This study deviates from previous beliefs by demonstrating how leaders’ high performance expectations are divergently related to employee performance as well as prescriptive immorality (e.g., performance-improving noncompliant behavior, PINB) and prescriptive morality (e.g., organizational citizenship behavior, OCB). Drawing on goal-shielding theory, we propose an integrated model in (...)
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  20. Motivating employees in a globalised economy. The moral legitimacy of applying gamification in a corporate context.Marianne Thejls Ziegler - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  21. The ethics of crashing : defending the order ethics approach.Julian F. Müller & Jan Gogoll - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  22. Part III. Responsible innovation in the digital age. Responsible artificial intelligence. Challenges in research, university, and society. [REVIEW]Klaus Mainzer - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  23. Order ethics : the turn towards polycentric democracy.Julian F. Müller - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  24. Order ethics : a contemporary ethics for the digital society.Matthias Uhl - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  25. Part II. Order ethics and experimental business ethics. Chances, problems and limits of experimental ethics.Christoph Lütge - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  26. Disentangling gut feeling : assessing the integrity of social entrepreneurs.Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Eva Lutz, Judith Mayer & Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  27. (1 other version)Risk taking and the ethics of entrepreneurship.Christoph Lütge - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  28. Organizational integrity : discussion of an approach to business ethics in the age of digitization.Alexander Kriebitz & Raphael Max - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  29. Part I. Integrity, entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility. Individual and corporate integrity. Stretching the concept. [REVIEW]Marianne Thejls Ziegler - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  30. Years After.Christoph Lütge - 2022 - In Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
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  31. Evolving business ethics: integrity, experimental method and responsible innovation in the digital age.Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler (eds.) - 2022 - Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
    Business ethics as a discipline has been evolving rapidly, and indeed needs to evolve constantly. This evolution is mandated more urgently than ever before as we plunge headlong, and with increasing velocity, into the era of automation, artificial intelligence and digitization. Ethical codes and guidelines are needed for educators, scientists, industries, law and policy makers, as well as for the general public engaged with emerging technologies not only to ensure a smooth transition into the autonomous and digital age, but also (...)
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  32. The Political Philosophy of AI: An Introduction, by Mark Coeckelbergh. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 186 pp. [REVIEW]Carolina Villegas-Galaviz - forthcoming - Business Ethics Quarterly:1-4.
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  33. Business ethics and social responsibility: essential works of Fr. Gerald F. Cavanagh, S. J.Joseph Eisenhauer & Lawrence Zeff (eds.) - 2023 - [Bradford]: Ethics International Press.
    Fr. Gerald F. Cavanagh, S.J. has been widely recognized as one of the founders of the field of business ethics, as well as a leader in bringing Catholic Social Teaching to bear on this academic discipline. One of his principal insights has been that business, as the most powerful agency in society, can and should be a force for positive societal change, rather than deferring that responsibility to government. This volume collects his most significant contributions to the discipline, from the (...)
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  34. Etika bisnis masyarakat suku Sasak.Wajizatul Amnia, Alfiana Ayuan Sari & M. Nurul Wathoni - 2023 - Lombok Barat: Nashir Al-Kutub Indonesia.
    On the business ethics of Sasak people in Nusa Tenggara Barat Province, Indonesia, according to their traditional knowledge and the Islamic perspective.
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  35. The Ethical Commitment of Business Strategy: ESG-Related Factors as Drivers of the SDGs.M. Ángeles López-Cabarcos, Ydriss Ziane, M. Luisa López-Pérez & Juan Piñeiro-Chousa - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-17.
    Companies play an important role in sustainable development. While many companies have incorporated ESG initiatives into their strategies, the specific impact of these efforts on the SDGs remains unclear, especially regarding how these initiatives are prioritized or aligned within corporate strategies. Despite the common relationship between ESG practices and sustainability, limited research has investigated how ESG strategies contribute to the SDGs. This paper aims to assess the ethical commitment of organizational practices, analysing how the combination of five ESG-related variables (ecological (...)
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  36. The Countervailing Effects of Job Crafting on Salesperson Ethical Behaviors: The Role of Meaningful Work and Organizational Interventions.Aditya Gupta, Vishag Badrinarayanan, Linda Alkire & Indu Ramachandran - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-27.
    Job crafting has been identified as an important mechanism through which employees can proactively reshape job demands and resources to enhance personal and work goals. This study examines how promotion-focused and prevention-focused job crafting influence meaningful work and ethical behaviors among salespeople. Results from two studies, a preliminary quasi-experiment and a survey of business-to-business salespeople, show that promotion-focused job crafting enhances meaningful work and ethical behaviors, whereas prevention-focused job crafting has the opposite effect and reduces meaningful work and ethical behaviors. (...)
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  37. Corporate Sincerity: Accommodation, Reputation Washing, and Moral Credit.Grant J. Rozeboom - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-15.
    A distinctive question about corporate sincerity arises in two kinds of contexts. In accommodation contexts, a corporate agent expresses the sort of reasonable, conscience-constituting normative commitments that generate a claim to be exempt from a general obligation that applies to it. For this claim to be justified, it must be sincere in expressing these commitments. In moral credit contexts, a corporate agent expressly acts in a morally right (or justified) manner, but there is reason to leave open the question of (...)
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  38. How far does membership in the Chinese government and the party contribute to wealth accumulation and protection: an empirical investigation.Zhu Zhang - forthcoming - Asian Journal of Business Ethics:1-32.
    How significant is membership in the Chinese government and party organizations, such as the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), in shaping the wealth of private sector elites? Analyzing China Rich List data (1999–2015) with Ordinary Least Squares regression, Propensity Score Matching, and the Cox Hazard model, this study finds that NPC and CPPCC affiliation significantly boosts initial wealth accumulation, while Chinese Communist Party membership alone has minimal impact. However, political connections alone do not (...)
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  39. The level of corporate philanthropy disclosure in the context of Jordan.Arifatul Husna Mohd Ariff, Fathiyyah Binti Abu Bakar & Omar Ahmad Ali Jarwan - 2025 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 19 (3/4):363-387.
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  40. The impact of mergers and acquisitions on shareholder wealth of acquiring companies in the mining industry.Mahmoud Elmarzouky, Vita Spurgeon & George Giannopoulos - 2025 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 19 (3/4):432-456.
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  41. Institutional Governance of Responsible Research and Innovation.Marit Hovdal Moan, Lars Øystein Ursin & Giovanni De Grandis - 2023 - In Elsa González-Esteban, Ramon A. Feenstra & Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Ethics and Responsible Research and Innovation in Practice. Springer Nature. pp. 3-18.
    In this chapter, we analyse the debate around the implementation of responsible research and innovation (RRI) in Higher Education, Funding and Research Centres (HEFRCs). We will illustrate some proposals about how to implement RRI in HERFCs in a good way. Open and inclusive governance is key to fruitful implementation of RRI in these organizations. Governance in this context refers to ways of steering processes in a desirable direction, in this case in the direction of responsible research and innovation that is (...)
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  42. Cost of Vagueness: Stakeholders’ Responses to Firms’ ESG Information.Hongbo He, Yiqing Chen, Ruiqi Guo, Lerong He & Hong Wan - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-24.
    This paper examines the reactions of stakeholders to firms’ ESG information and how these reactions impact firms’ financial performance. We further explore how firms’ ESG performance and public attention moderate these relationships. Using a longitudinal dataset of Chinese listed firms from 2014 to 2023, we find that firms with vague ESG information are associated with increased financing constraints, diminished brand value, and reduced government environmental subsidies. Interestingly, these negative consequences are milder in firms with unusually poor ESG performance. Our findings (...)
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  43. Does Soft Information Mitigate Gender Bias in Corporate Lending?Udichibarna Bose, Stefano Filomeni & Elena Tabacco - 2025 - Journal of Business Ethics 198 (2):437-466.
    Gender bias in leadership and decision-making is a well-documented and pervasive topic that continues to garner significant attention in academic research and business literature. In this paper, by exploiting a unique proprietary dataset of 550 mid-corporate loan applications managed by a major European bank, we explore how the use of soft information influences lending decisions of female loan officers as compared to their male counterparts. We find that use of soft information reduces information asymmetry which helps female officers in making (...)
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  44. Historical Ownership of Family Firms and Corporate Fraud.Xin Huang, Wanrong Li, Chen Cheng, Hao Huang & Guanchun Liu - 2025 - Journal of Business Ethics 198 (2):293-319.
    We examine the impact of family firms’ historical ownership on corporate fraud. Our results show that restructured family firms from state-owned enterprises are more likely to violate and commit more fraud than entrepreneurial family firms. This finding is robust to the difference-in-difference-in-differences estimation, an instrument variables regression, fixed effects research design, and propensity score matching (PSM) approach analysis. Mechanism analysis shows that restructured family firms result in lower financial performance, high labor redundancy, inefficient investments, and cash volatility. Therefore, restructured family (...)
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  45. The Rise of Partisan CSR: Corporate Responses to the Russia–Ukraine War.Vassiliki Bamiatzi, Steven A. Brieger, Özgü Karakulak, Daniel Kinderman & Stephan Manning - 2025 - Journal of Business Ethics 198 (2):263-291.
    The Russia–Ukraine war has challenged our understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Whereas CSR is traditionally associated with business self-regulation that benefits business and society, the conflict has revealed new forms of what we call “partisan CSR.” Based on comprehensive data from Fortune Global 500 firms, this study discovers that in particular Western, but also some non-Western, corporations have engaged in partisan CSR activities, ranging from (1) strengthening Ukraine’s economy, to (2) enhancing security and protection for Ukrainian citizens, (3) providing (...)
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  46. Evolution of Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Hybrid Literature Review and Theoretical Propositions.Sebastián Uriarte, Cristian Geldes & Jesús Santorcuato - 2025 - Journal of Business Ethics 198 (2):321-343.
    Entrepreneurship has been highlighted as one of the major forces in addressing significant economic, social, and environmental challenges. These challenges have raised new ethical questions, leading to an explosive growth of research at the intersection of ethics and entrepreneurship. This study provides an overview of the evolution of the scientific literature on the interplay between ethics and entrepreneurship to propose a research proposition with standardized protocols and a broad time limit. Specifically, in a hybrid literature review, 516 articles from peer-reviewed (...)
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  47. Productive Tensions of Corporate Pride Partnerships: Towards a Relational Ethics of Constitutive Impurity.Jannick Friis Christensen, Sine N. Just & Stefan Schwarzkopf - 2025 - Journal of Business Ethics 198 (2):345-363.
    Based on a qualitative study of Copenhagen 2021 WorldPride, this article explores collaboration between the local organiser and its corporate partners, focusing on the tensions involved in this collaboration, which emerge from and uphold relations between the extremes of unethical pinkwashing, on the one hand, and ethical purity, on the other. Here, pinkwashing is understood as a looming risk, and purity as an unrealizable ideal. As such, corporate sponsorships of Pride are conceptualized as inherently impure—and productive because of their very (...)
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  48. Theorizing Effective (Preventative) Remedy: Exploring the Root Cause Dimensions of Human Rights Abuse & Remedy.Alysha Kate Shivji - 2025 - Journal of Business Ethics 198 (2):223-241.
    This paper puts forth a critical perspective on remedy for business-related human rights abuses. It reflects on the purpose of remedy in Business and Human Rights and argues that effective remedy should address the multiple root causes of abuses to prevent reoccurrences rather than focus on surface issues and isolated cases. To develop a theoretical framework to conceptualize preventative remedy that addresses multiple root causes, this research draws on Fraser’s radical democratic conception of justice and participatory parity. According to the (...)
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  49. Governing the Responsible Investment of Slack Resources in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Performance: How Beneficial are CSR Committees?Tim Heubeck & Annina Ahrens - 2025 - Journal of Business Ethics 198 (2):365-385.
    Possessing slack resources enables businesses to invest in innovative and stakeholder-focused initiatives. Therefore, we posit that higher slack resources encourage businesses to allocate these resources to improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Moreover, as a central sustainability governance mechanism, we hypothesize that the corporate social responsibility (CSR) committee supports investing slack resources in ESG initiatives. Using data from Nasdaq-100 firms, we find initial support for a positive effect of slack resources for ESG. However, further analyses reveal that slack (...)
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  50. The Effects of Moral Intensity and Moral Disengagement on Rule Violations: Occupational Safety in UK-based Construction Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Claire Mann, Sharon Clarke & Sheena Johnson - 2025 - Journal of Business Ethics 198 (2):243-262.
    We take an ethics theory perspective to examine rule violations and workarounds in the UK construction industry in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK construction sector remained largely operational during lockdowns in the UK, providing an opportunity to explore the ways in which construction workers made ethical decisions in situ, related to health and safety at work, and COVID-19 rules. We conducted 22 semi-structured interviews with participants from 11 organisations (3 major construction companies and 8 subcontractors) during November (...)
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