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. The Nature and Practice of Trust, by Marc Cohen. New York: Routledge, 2023. 148 pp. [REVIEW]Helet Botha - forthcoming - Business Ethics Quarterly:1-4.
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  2. Ethical Leadership on the Rise? A Cross-Temporal and Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis of its Means, Variability, and Relationships with Follower Outcomes Across 15 Years.Justine Amory, Bart Wille, Brenton M. Wiernik & Sofie Dupré - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-29.
    Scholars have suggested that leaders’ ethical failures at the beginning of the twenty-first century have raised awareness about the importance of ethical leadership (EL). Yet, there has been no systematic effort to evaluate whether this awareness indeed led to changes in EL or how followers react to this leadership style over time. To address this gap, we examine the evolution in EL means, variability, and its associations with follower outcomes between 2004 and 2019. Our cross-temporal meta-analysis included 359 independent samples (...)
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  3. Mrs. Dalloway and the Shecession: The Interconnectedness and Intersectionalities of Care Ethics and Social Time During the Pandemic.Lakshmi Balachandran Nair - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-18.
    Business ethics researchers and practitioners are interested in understanding the temporal mechanisms of various managerial activities, processes, and policies. In this direction, I borrow notions of time from Virginia Woolf’s _Mrs. Dalloway_ to examine how social time intersperses with the paid and (unpaid) care work of female employees during the pandemic. I explore how discussions of social time in connection to care work appear in newspaper discourses of “shecession”, i.e. the large-scale job/income losses experienced by women during the COVID-19 pandemic. (...)
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  4. The Dismissal of New Female CEOs: A Role Congruity Perspective.Yusi Jiang, Wan Cheng & Xuemei Xie - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-46.
    Gender role congruity theory emphasizes the ubiquity of male-typed leadership schemas as barriers to female leaders’ career development (i.e., descriptive stereotypes); however, the expectation of female leaders’ fulfilling their gender role (i.e., prescriptive stereotypes) has received limited attention. Extending this line of research, we propose the concept of female-typed leadership schemas and suggest that the (mis)match between female CEOs’ gender-stereotyped behavioral differences (agentic vs. communal) and female-typed leadership stereotypes helps explain the prescriptive gender stereotypes that women face in the CEO (...)
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  5. Social Diversity on Corporate Boards in a Country Torn by Civil War.Kamil K. Nazliben, Luc Renneboog & Emil Uduwalage - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-28.
    We examine how social diversity and inclusiveness on corporate boards affect corporate performance and monitoring in Sri Lanka, a country subject to decades of polarization, civil war, and even genocide. Barely more than a decade after the civil war, we find that board social diversity on the basis of ethnicity, religion, language, gender, and nationality of the board members is positively related to corporate performance, both in terms of stock market performance and accounting returns, and to corporate financial stability. The (...)
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  6. Do Internal Auditors Make Consistent Ethical Judgments in English and Chinese in Reporting Wrongdoing?Peipei Pan & Chris Patel - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-21.
    We contribute to the literature on intentions to report wrongdoing by examining whether Chinese internal auditors make consistent judgments when an ethical dilemma is presented in English and when the same dilemma is presented in Chinese. We invoke cultural frame switching theory, and our findings, which are based on a randomized experiment using between-subjects and within-subject mixed design, support the hypothesis that Chinese internal auditors are more likely to report wrongdoing when the ethical dilemma is presented in English than when (...)
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  7. Climate Change Denial and Corporate Environmental Responsibility.Mansoor Afzali, Gonul Colak & Sami Vähämaa - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-29.
    This paper examines whether corporate environmental responsibility is influenced by regional differences in climate change denial. While there is an overwhelming consensus among scientists that climate change is happening, recent surveys still indicate widespread climate change denial across societies. Given that corporate activity causing climate change is fundamentally rooted in individual beliefs and societal institutions, we examine whether local perceptions about climate change matter for firms’ engagement in environmental responsibility. We use climate change perception surveys conducted in the U.S. to (...)
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  8. Trading In Our Lederhosen for Kilts.Brian K. Steverson, Adriane Leithauser & Tyler Wasson - 2024 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 43 (1):55-82.
    The popularity of direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry services has exploded over the past five years, with as many as 250 direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry testing companies currently operating and estimates that 1 in 5 Americans are customers of one or more of those companies. Marketing of genetic ancestry testing has consistently linked the results of DNA testing to a consumer’s racial and ethnic identity, and, because of that, can help consumers find out “who they really are.” We argue that the “biologization” of (...)
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  9. Conceptualization and Operationalization of the Concept of Moral Craftsmanship.Anne I. Schaap, H. C. W. de Vet, Margreet M. Stolper & A. C. Molewijk - 2024 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 43 (1):27-54.
    Prison work creates ethical challenges for which a training program was initiated for Dutch prison staff to foster their Moral Craftsmanship (MCS). The concept of MCS is not yet defined and operationalized in literature. This explorative study aims to 1) define MCS, 2) identify conceptual elements of MCS, and 3) develop a measurement tool for MCS. A document and literature study provided input for the definition and selection of conceptual elements related within DCIA policy documents, identifying three conceptual levels of (...)
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  10. Corporations as Imperfect Communities.Andrés Felipe López Latorre & Ulf Thoene - 2024 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 43 (1):83-112.
    This article presents an alternative understanding of corporations from the two problematic visions that see corporations as either the shareholders’ property or as nexuses of contracts. The alternative proposed here is based on the theories of pre-eighteenth-century philosophers, particularly Aristotle’s political philosophy, which Thomas Aquinas later refined. The article aims to advance a theory of corporate legal and moral responsibility for human rights based on the conception of corporations as imperfect communities whose purpose is to produce a good or service (...)
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  11. Understanding Unprofessional Conduct of Faculty.David E. Desplaces, Laura Beauvais, Avi Kay & Susan Bosco - 2024 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 43 (1):1-26.
    Although researchers have paid much attention to the widespread cheating by students during their college careers and the possible sources behind such unethical behaviors, there has been less attention given to the unethical behaviors of faculty. Research on the types of unethical behaviors of faculty has pointed out the unique nature of higher education and the particular pressures placed on faculty as potential drivers of such behavior. In this paper, we examine the factors and underlying cognitive processes that may drive (...)
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  12. Business without Management: MacIntyrean Accounting, Management, and Practice-Led Business.Andrew West - forthcoming - Business Ethics Quarterly:1-30.
    Alasdair MacIntyre’s critique of managerial capitalism is well known, with some arguing that MacIntyrean thought is antithetical to contemporary capitalist business. Nevertheless, substantial efforts have been taken to demonstrate how different business activities constitute MacIntyrean practices, which points to an incoherence at the heart of MacIntyrean business ethics scholarship. This article proposes a way of bridging these perspectives, suggesting a reimagined MacIntyrean approach to business that is thoroughly ‘practice-led.’ A detailed comparison of accounting and management shows that while neither are (...)
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  13. Integrity and the University.Damian Cox, Jacqueline Boaks & Michael P. Levine - 2024 - Philosophy of Management 23 (1):109-124.
    This paper examines the idea of the integrity of academic practice. We offer an account of the integrity of professional practice in general before applying it to academic professional practice within the contemporary, western university. We then introduce the concept of integrity traps and explain how they can make it difficult for academics working within a contemporary university environment to maintain their integrity.
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  14. Management – from Farms to Arms and Further on.Hakan Erkal & Wim Vandekerckhove - 2024 - Philosophy of Management 23 (1):1-16.
    Inspired by Koselleck’s approach to conceptual history, this essay presents a semantic analysis of management. Our inquiry into what management is, focuses on lingual and cognitive wholes of meaning and signification. The essay undertakes a periodization of management history, in an attempt to formulate expectations for a dystopian future management by artificial intelligence. Five periods are distinguished. Each period entails a specific characterisation for three questions: what is the activity of managing, what or who is managed, and who manages? Starting (...)
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  15. The Sky is the Limit: Evaluating Business Models from an Integral and Non-Reductionist View of Reality.Guilherme Coelho da Rocha de Castro & Humberto Elias Garcia Lopes - 2024 - Philosophy of Management 23 (1):125-151.
    This paper presents an ontological perspective that enables evaluating the effectiveness of business models from an integrative worldview. Different groups’ fragmented and reductionist views on this topic create a dichotomy that makes it difficult to compare and analyze them in practice. Such groups use different values for some components, which may result in neglecting others and their interrelationship. This study discusses a functional characteristic of business models that academia still needs to address. It explores new frontiers in the field, such (...)
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  16. An Alternative Understanding of Social Entrepreneurs in Terms of Resonance and Vulnerability: Based on Hartmut Rosa’s Philosophy and Sociology.Rim Hachana & Patrick Gilormini - 2024 - Philosophy of Management 23 (1):153-180.
    In their pursuit of addressing social and environmental challenges, social entrepreneurs should be social transformers emancipating stakeholders. Rosa’s critical theorizing in philosophy and sociology points the ways to expanding the conventional conception of social entrepreneurship to include long-term social transformation. Modifying Rosa, social entrepreneurship is not anti-capitalist but reforms capitalism. The key relevant concepts in Rosa are resonance, alienation, ambivalence, vulnerability, dynamic stabilization through the triple A of appropriation, acceleration, and activation, and emancipatory interest. We consider social entrepreneurs as resonant (...)
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  17. The Problem of Efficiency: Redefining the Relation Between Success & Excellence in Business Ethics.Nisigandha Bhuyan & Arunima Chakraborty - 2024 - Philosophy of Management 23 (1):17-39.
    This paper argues that a proper evaluation of the notion of efficiency in business ethics requires that we separate efficiency qua human good from the originally value-neutral sense of the term. The adverse consequences of hyper-efficiency consist in paradoxically causing greater inefficiencies (‘perversity’) as well as a negative impact on the human capacities to pursue various forms of excellence (‘jeopardy’). In contrast to its negative consequences, the precious good of efficiency can be formulated in terms of Alasdair MacIntyre’s influential practice-institution (...)
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  18. Governing corporations with ‘strangers’: Earning membership through investor stewardship.Donald Nordberg - 2024 - Philosophy of Management 23 (1):85-107.
    Despite decades of theorising and empirical research, the problems of corporate governance seem intractable, particularly the relationships between investors and companies. The thought experiment in this paper asks us to look at the problem through a fresh lens. It draws on the quaint British legal custom of calling shareholders “members”, and then uses the political philosopher Michael Walzer’s idea of membership in states, clubs, neighbourhoods, and families to draw lessons for the corporate world. This paper suggests that seeing how Walzer (...)
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  19. Rethinking Evidence-Based Management.Erik Weber, Ann Wyverkens & Bert Leuridan - 2024 - Philosophy of Management 23 (1):59-84.
    Evidence-based management (EBMgt) is a relatively recent approach to management, developed by Denise Rousseau in a series of articles and in a book that she co-authored with Eric Barends (Barends & Rousseau 2018). It is based on the idea that good-quality management decisions require both critical thinking and use of the best available evidence. In this paper we want to contribute to the scholarship on evidence-based management by showing how its central concept – evidence – can and should be defined (...)
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  20. Whiteheadian Experience in Beer’s Cybernetic Model: Policy-making in Cooperative Societies.Camilo Osejo-Bucheli - 2024 - Philosophy of Management 23 (1):41-58.
    Policymaking carries an intrinsic problem in the measurement of the effectiveness of policy. Stafford Beer proposed in 1975, to measure the eudaemonia generated by the implementation of a policy in a society to determine its effectiveness. To achieve this end, he devised a system that compares differential rates of change in eudaemonia. Despite the effectiveness of Beer’s idea, policies regarding highly subjective issues, such as the complex case of symbolic inequalities pose a new challenge. In this article, the author sets (...)
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  21. ESG myths and the objective of a corporation: optimising sustainable values for different stakeholders.Simon S. M. Ho - forthcoming - Asian Journal of Business Ethics:1-6.
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  22. Talking Ethics Early in Health Data Public Private Partnerships.Constantin Landers, Kelly E. Ormond, Alessandro Blasimme, Caroline Brall & Effy Vayena - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):649-659.
    Data access and data sharing are vital to advance medicine. A growing number of public private partnerships are set up to facilitate data access and sharing, as private and public actors possess highly complementary health data sets and treatment development resources. However, the priorities and incentives of public and private organizations are frequently in conflict. This has complicated partnerships and sparked public concerns around ethical issues such as trust, justice or privacy—in turn raising an important problem in business and data (...)
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  23. Amoral Management and the Normalisation of Deviance: The Case of Stafford Hospital.Tom Entwistle & Heike Doering - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):723-738.
    Inquiries into organisational scandals repeatedly attribute wrongdoing to the normalisation of deviance. From this perspective, the cause of harm lies not in the actions of any individual but rather in the institutionalised practices of organisations or sectors. Although an important corrective to dramatic tales of bad apples, the normalisation thesis underplays the role of management in the emergence of deviance. Drawing on literatures exploring ideas of amoral (Carroll in Bus Horiz 30(2):7–15, 1987) or ethically neutral leadership (Treviño et al. in (...)
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  24. The Corporate Samaritan: Advancing Understanding of the Role of Deontic Motive in Justice Enactment.Julia Zwank, Marjo-Riitta Diehl & Mario Gollwitzer - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):607-623.
    Although the literature on organizational justice enactment is becoming richer, our understanding of the role of the deontic justice motive remains limited. In this article, we review and discuss theoretical approaches to and evidence of the deontic justice motive and deontic justice enactment. While the prevalent understanding of deontic justice enactment focuses on compliance, we argue that this conceptualization is insufficient to explain behaviors that go beyond the call of duty. We thus consider two further forms of deontic behavior: humanistic (...)
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  25. Moral Agency Development as a Community-Supported Process: An Analysis of Hospitals’ Middle Management Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis.Gry Espedal, Marta Struminska-Kutra, Danielle Wagenheim & Kari Jakobsen Husa - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):685-699.
    This paper investigates the process of moral agency development as a community-supported process. Based on a multimethod qualitative inquiry, including diaries, focus groups, and documentary analysis, we analyze the experiences of middle managers in two Norwegian hospitals during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that moral agency is developed through a community-embedded value inquiry, emerging in three partially overlapping steps. The first step is marked by moral reflex, an intuitive, value-driven, pre-reflective response to a crisis situation. In (...)
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  26. Climate Change Social Norms and Corporate Cash Holdings.Lei Zhang, Kiridaran Kanagaretnam & Jing Gao - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):661-683.
    We study the relationship between climate change social norms (CCSN) and corporate cash holdings for U.S. firms. We find that county-level CCSN is significantly positively associated with cash holdings. Our main finding is robust to a battery of robustness tests. In a subsample analysis, we find that firms have relatively low cash holdings in low CCSN counties even when faced with high climate risk. For such firms, the lack of cash buffer could be harmful to a broader set of stakeholders (...)
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  27. Correction to: Moral Agency Development as a Community-Supported Process: An Analysis of Hospitals’ Middle Management Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis.Gry Espedal, Marta Struminska-Kutra, Danielle Wagenheim & Kari Jakobsen Husa - 2024 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):701-701.
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  28. To Whom Do Business Owner-Managers Feel Responsible? Weighting conflicting social responsibilities in Rwanda.Bruno Noisette - 2024 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):531-552.
    In lower-income countries, owner-managers of small businesses take on heavy social responsibilities toward members of their extended family. However, using business resources to answer family needs can harm business, hence contradict broader responsibilities toward business stakeholders and society at large. In contexts where jobs are scarce and unemployment means deep poverty, this conundrum often translates into an ethical choice between recruiting needy relatives or avoid nepotism. To study such ethically loaded recruitment decisions, I adopt a stakeholder salience perspective. Focusing on (...)
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  29. Achieving Double Bottom-Line Performance in Hybrid Organisations: A Machine-Learning Approach.Eline Van der Auwera, Bert D’Espallier & Roy Mersland - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):625-647.
    Drawing on a global sample of microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper offers insights into the trade-off versus synergy debate of adopting multiple institutional goals in hybrid organisations. Additionally, it unravels which organisation- and country-specific determinants associate with top joint performance using machine-learning techniques. We find that the synergy versus trade-off debate is not dichotomous. Rather, MFIs can be strong both socially and financially but not while charging low interest rates. In our sample, 17% of MFIs serve a low-income clientele in (...)
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  30. A Symbolic Framing of Exploitative Firms: Evidence from Japan.Jungwon Min - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):589-605.
    Symbols can be used to mask or embellish firms’ exploitative labor practices. The present study defines exploitative firms’ abuse of symbolic management using legitimate symbolic terminologies to embellish their demanding working conditions as symbolic framing and examines it in the Japanese context. Because of strong social criticism for exploitative practices, firms are under pressure to avoid giving an exploitative impression to stakeholders, particularly job seekers in recruitment. This study argues that exploitative firms respond to these pressures by embellishing their descriptions (...)
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  31. Social Integrity and Stock Price Crash Risk.Yurou Liu & Jinyang Liu - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):703-721.
    We examine whether the level of integrity in a society, i.e., social integrity, affects stock price crash risk. We explore two competing hypotheses. On the one hand, exposure to high levels of integrity may reduce managers’ incentives to obfuscate information, thereby leading to lower crash risk. On the other hand, social integrity may weaken outsiders’ monitoring of managerial behaviors, thus giving managers more opportunities to obfuscate information and, consequently, leading to higher crash risk. Using a sample of Chinese listed firms, (...)
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  32. Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers.Tommaso Reggiani & Rainer Michael Rilke - 2024 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):553-568.
    This study examines the effects of donation incentives on labor supply in an online labor market through a field experiment (_n_ = 944). We manipulate the donation purpose of the incentive to be either unifying or polarizing and the size of the donation relative to the workers’ wage. Our experimental design allows us to observe the decision to accept a job (extensive margin) and different dimensions of productivity (intensive margin). We predict and show that a unifying donation purpose attracts more (...)
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  33. Understanding Fraud in the Not-For-Profit Sector: A Stakeholder Perspective for Charities.Saffet A. Uygur & Christopher J. Napier - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (3):569-588.
    The theorisation of fraud has largely been developed in the for-profit sector, and the paper extends this to the not-for-profit sector. Motivated by social control theory, we adopt a qualitative approach to assess the views of key charity stakeholders (social control agents) of charities registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales about fraud. We find that stakeholders, especially donors and beneficiaries, are often reluctant to label ‘fraud’ as a threat to the sector. This reflects ‘trusting indifference’, a value (...)
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  34. It’s a Three-Ring Circus: How Morally Educative Practices Are Undermined by Institutions.Ron Beadle & Matthew Sinnicks - forthcoming - Business Ethics Quarterly:1-27.
    Since the publication of Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue in 1981, tensions inherent to the relationship between morally educative practices and the institutions that house them have been widely noted. We propose a taxonomy of the ways in which the pursuit of external goods by institutions undermines the pursuit of the internal goods of practices. These comprise substitution, where the institution replaces the pursuit of one type of good by another; frustration, where opportunities for practitioners to discover goods or develop new (...)
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  35. Academic Fraud and Remote Evaluation of Accounting Students: An Application of the Fraud Triangle.James Bierstaker, William D. Brink, Sameera Khatoon & Linda Thorne - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-23.
    The pandemic has altered accounting education with the widespread adoption of remote evaluation platforms. We apply the lens of the fraud triangle to consider how the adoption of remote evaluation influences accounting students’ ethical values by measuring the incidence of cheating behavior as well as capturing their perceptions of their opportunity to cheat and their rationalization of cheating behavior. Consistent with prior research, our results show that cheating is higher in the online environment compared to remote evaluation, although the use (...)
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  36. Top Managers’ Rice Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility Performance.Yonggen Luo, Dongmin Kong & Huijie Cui - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-24.
    Ecological psychology regards culture as a response to the demands of the environment. As rice farming in history has significantly influenced the formation of human cultural consciousness, we investigate how the rice culture of a chairperson’s birthplace affects a firm’s CSR activities. Our main finding reveals a positive and significant correlation between a chairperson’s rice culture and CSR activities. Further analysis demonstrates that this positive relationship is particularly pronounced in private firms and family firms. We also examine the incremental effect (...)
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  37. Publisher Correction to: The Sadder but Nicer Effect: How Incidental Sadness Reduces Morally Questionable Behavior.Laura J. Noval, Günter K. Stahl & Chen-Bo Zhong - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-1.
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  38. Correction to: Common Knowledge of the Second Kind.David Bella & Jonathan King - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-1.
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  39. ESG and Asset Manager Capitalism.Paul Forrester - manuscript
    This paper provides an examination of some problems caused by the concentration of influence in the capital markets of developed countries. In particular, I argue that large asset managers exercise quasi-political power that is not democratically legitimate. In section two, I will examine the economic driver behind the size and power of the big asset managers: the passive investing revolution. I will discuss several respects in which this revolution has fundamentally changed capital markets, most notably by making a large share (...)
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  40. Too far apart! - An evaluation of the challenges impeding virtual teams' success.Douglas Aghimien, Lerato Aghimien, Clinton Aigbavboa & Siphiwe Dhladhla - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 18 (2):136-153.
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  41. Severity of ethical issues in virtual teams on construction projects.Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, Lekan Damilola Ojo, Onaopepo Adeniyi & Funke Dorcas Adedeji - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 18 (2):154-168.
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  42. Characterisation of the effects of coronavirus pandemic on construction projects delivery.Dorcas Titilayo Moyanga, Lekan Damilola Ojo, Oluwadamilare Olamide Ilesanmi & Ahmed Elyamany - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 18 (2):169-187.
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  43. Managing construction delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK construction industry.Temitope Omotayo, Tom R. Brudenell, Ayokunle Olanipekun & Temitope Egbelakin - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 18 (2):188-214.
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  44. Dancing on a Tightrope: Globalization, Deterritorialization, and Standardization in Multicultural Environment.Medha Bakhshi - forthcoming - Philosophy of Management:1-14.
    The article introduces a new perspective on the impact of globalization on identity formation, which marks a shift from traditional understandings of fixed territorial (cultural) identities. It uses Deleuze and Guattari’s theoretical terms of Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization and establishes these as the essence of Globalization Scholte (Globalization: A Critical Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2005), rejecting the pessimism and fear of cultural imperialism as a by-product of globalization or a fear of standardization in multicultural work environments. It presents globalization as (...)
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  45. Codes of ethics (with Mill, Kant and Aquinas).Alonso Villarán - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 1 (1).
  46. Delineating corporate governance and corporate social responsibilities - a bibliometric review and future directions.Kashish Sharma & Shridev Devji - 2024 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 1 (1).
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  47. The Civil Company: Place-Based Corporate Social Responsibility in Dialogue with Business Ethics and Workplace Spirituality.Giorgia Nigri, Luis Fernando Ramirez & Roberta Sferrazzo - 2024 - In Mara Del Baldo, Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli & Elisabetta Righini (eds.), Place Based Approaches to Sustainability Volume I: Ethical and Spiritual Foundations of Sustainability. Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 177-199.
    Today there is growing need to overcome the traditional ethics of intentions and to develop an ethics of responsibility that judges the morality of a behavior considering its impact not only on the humanity living today but also on the consequence bearers of the future, including all living beings and the earth. For this to occur, an integration of business ethics and spirituality in the workplace is increasingly necessary.Corporate social responsibility (CSR), which is intended to maximize positive societal externalities and (...)
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  48. Corporate Social Responsibility in Family Firms: Status and Future Directions of a Research Field.Christoph Stock, Laura Pütz, Sabrina Schell & Arndt Werner - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (1):199-259.
    This systematic literature review contributes to the increasing interest regarding corporate social responsibility (CSR) in family firms—a research field that has developed considerably in the last few years. It now provides the opportunity to take a holistic view on the relationship dynamics—i.e., drivers, activities, outcomes, and contextual influences—of family firms with CSR, thus enabling a more coherent organization of current research and a sounder understanding of the phenomenon. To conceptualize the research field, we analyzed 122 peer-reviewed articles published in highly (...)
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  49. Why the COVID-19 Crisis Is an Ethical Issue for Business: Evidence from the Australian JobKeeper Initiative.Graciela Corral de Zubielqui & Howard Harris - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (1):123-136.
    The COVID-19 virus was unveiled to the world as a health crisis and later also as an economic crisis. For some organisations, it has become an ethical crisis. This is certainly the case for large organisations in Australia, where the way many enterprises handled a government wage subsidy called JobKeeper led to a public backlash, media pressure, and a variety of responses ranging from ‘We acted legally’ to the full return of the subsidy. Some organisations later reported profits, and the (...)
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  50. The Influence of CSR Orientation on Innovative Performance: Is the Effect Conditioned to the Implementation of Organizational Practices? [REVIEW]Paula Anzola-Román, Teresa Garcia-Marco & Ferdaous Zouaghi - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 190 (1):261-278.
    Previous research has examined the relationship between CSR and innovation and has suggested that the former might positively affect the latter; however, the impact of CSR on innovation success needs further attention. This study aims to develop a deeper understanding of how environmental and social CSR are related to innovation performance and whether the implementation of organizational practices might moderate this relationship. The results are based on an unbalanced panel of 14,313 observations of 3713 firms covering 2011–2015. Using random-effects probit (...)
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