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  1. Firm governance structures, earnings management, and carbon emission disclosures in Chinese high‐polluting firms.Ali Abbas, Guoqing Zhang, Bilal & Ye Chengang - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1470-1489.
    This study examines the influence of firm governance structures (board size, independence, CEO duality, director share ownership, and board meeting frequency) in relation to carbon emission disclosures by high-polluting Chinses firms. In addition, the study further examined the moderating role of earnings management on this relationship. In line with stakeholder and agency theories, our study identified that the large and independent boards exercise and demonstrate a higher degree of carbon emission disclosures. However, CEO duality and director share ownership are associated (...)
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    Women and CSR budgeting and spending: Does ownership enhance their CSR role?Saeed Rabea Baatwah & Effiezal Aswadi Abdul Wahab - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1277-1296.
    We investigate the impact of women shareholders on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how they interact with women directors to exert a greater influence on CSR activities. Little is known about how women's ownership can enhance their roles in CSR practices. Based on data from Omani-listed firms during 2016–2020 and using CSR budgeting and spending as proxies for CSR activities, firms with women shareholders allocate more CSR budgeting and spend more money on CSR activities. However, we also find that women (...)
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    Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility: Taking stock and looking forward.Ralf Barkemeyer, Martina Linnenluecke, Stefan Markovic & Georges Samara - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1123-1125.
    Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1123-1125, October 2023.
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  4. Corporate environmental efforts, government environmental subsidies, and corporate non‐environmental R&D intensity: Evidence from listed firms.Weihong Chen, David Diwei Lv & Christina W. Y. Wong - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1321-1333.
    Drawing on the behavioral theory, this study examines how the misalignment between a firm's environmental effort and the level of subsidies received from the government in affecting the firm's investment in non-environmental R&D. Based on a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2008 to 2019 and using polynomial regression techniques, our findings reveal that firms in the “low effort-high subsidies” group exhibit lower non-environmental R&D intensity compared to firms in the “high effort-low subsidies” group. This study contributes to the (...)
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    The differential impact of substantive and symbolic CSR attribution on job satisfaction and turnover intention.Xin Chen, Eric Hansen, Jianfeng Cai & Jichang Xiao - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1233-1246.
    Employees have their own understandings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) motives. This study investigated whether employees' different perceptions of CSR motives, including substantive CSR attribution and symbolic CSR attribution, influence their work attitudes, job satisfaction, and turnover intention. Moreover, we explore the mediating role of person-organization fit in the relationships among CSR attribution, job satisfaction, and turnover intention. We collected 687 responses for an overall response rate of 16%. The results of structural equation model (SEM) analyses show that substantive CSR (...)
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    Analyzing the implications of organic standardization and certification in alternative food networks: The capability approach.Felipe Alexandre de Lima, Daiane Mülling Neutzling, Stefan Seuring, Vikas Kumar & Marilia Bonzanini Bossle - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1547-1562.
    Although organic standards and certification schemes have a crucial role in ensuring quality, safety, and sustainability within food systems, there is a need to critically analyze their implications on human capabilities within alternative food networks (AFNs). Therefore, this paper draws upon the capability approach to analyze the implications of three governance mechanisms (i.e., third-party, social control, and hybrid certification) on human flourishing within AFNs in Ceará, Brazil. The three cases primarily build on 66 interviews with farmers, consumers, AFN owners and (...)
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    Board cultural diversity and bank social performance: The mediating role of corporate social responsibility strategy.Francesco Gangi, Nicola Varrone & Maria Coscia - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1310-1320.
    The study investigates how board cultural diversity (BCD) affects bank stakeholder engagement through improved corporate social performance (CSP) and whether banks' corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy mediates the relationship between BCD and banks' social performance. Adopting an international sample of 379 banks from 2010 to 2019, we found that BCD improves engagement in socially responsible issues in the banking sector. Moreover, we show a mediating role of strategic CSR on the relationship between BCD and banks' social performance. Hence, we contribute (...)
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    Not all stakeholders are equal: Corporate social responsibility variability and corporate financial performance.Yongqiang Gao, Yumeng Nie & Taïeb Hafsi - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1389-1410.
    The advocates of “doing well by doing good” have advised firms to invest in corporate social responsibility (CSR), but firms may get lost on how to invest their limited resources in it since CSR is a complex concept involving many activities and different types of stakeholders. In this work, we draw upon the perspective of stakeholder saliency and the stakeholder resource-based view (SRBV) to propose that stakeholders may have different levels of expectations for CSR and contribute to firm value creation (...)
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    Direct and spillover effects of board gender quotas: Revisiting the Norwegian experience.Josep Garcia-Blandon, Josep Maria Argilés-Bosch, Diego Ravenda & David Castillo-Merino - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1297-1309.
    Building on the Norwegian case, this study examines the long-term implications of board gender quotas on the advancement of gender diversity in managerial leadership. Previous research has indicated that, aside from the board, the quota had limited impact on achieving this objective. However, these studies have narrowly focused on the spill-over effects of the quota, primarily concentrating on the positions of CEO and Chair. The findings of this study reveal contrasting effects of the board gender quota on the gender composition (...)
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    Sustainable investment and environmental, social, and governance investing: A bibliometric and systematic literature review.Sheeba Kapil & Vrinda Rawal - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1429-1451.
    Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is synonymous with sustainable investment for socially responsible investors. Unfortunately, the diversity of ESG investing remains unattended amidst the growth in ESG literature, as the academic literature focuses dominantly on measuring performance. An understanding of a wide range of subjects entailing ESG is required before future research on ESG investing is performed. To overcome the challenge, this systematic literature review uses bibliometric mapping to reveal four significant research themes within the ESG investing literature: investor (...)
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    Consumer ethics: An extensive bibliometric review (1995–2021).Inés Küster & Natalia Vila - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1150-1169.
    Nowadays, consumer ethics represents a relevant field of review. There have been some attempts to conduct literature reviews; however, these have been few and incomplete. For this reason, this paper follows two main objectives: (1) to develop a performance analysis to measure the impact/perceptibility of academic production on consumer ethics (most cited authors, journals and themes) and (2) to visually present the scientific structure by themes of research in consumer ethics as well as its evolution along time. Using SciMAT software, (...)
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    Towards theorising corporate social irresponsibility: The Déjà Vu cases of collapsed forestry ventures.Tiffany C. H. Leung, Artie W. Ng, Andreas G. F. Hoepner & Maretno A. Harjoto - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1452-1469.
    Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1452-1469, October 2023.
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    Star CEOs and ESG performance in China: An integrated view of role identity and role constraints logics.Mengyao Li, Min Huang, Dong Wang & Xiaobo Li - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1411-1428.
    This study seeks to shed light on the effect of star CEOs on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of Chinese firms. Relying on the theoretical perspective of role identity and role constraints, we analyze data from 1222 Chinese firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 2006 to 2019. The results analyzed using the ordinary least squares estimate method reveal a positive effect of star CEOs' extreme confidence and legitimacy pressure mechanisms on ESG performance. We also (...)
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    Family firm status and environmental disclosure: The moderating effect of board gender diversity.Barbara Maggi, Rafaela Gjergji, Luigi Vena, Salvatore Sciascia & Alessandro Cortesi - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1334-1351.
    Building on agency and resource-based view theories, this study investigates the level of environmental disclosure (ED) practices of family versus non-family firms and explores the moderating role of board gender diversity. We test our hypotheses on a 3-year (2018–2020) panel data sample comprising 324 observations of Italian small- and medium-sized enterprises traded on the Euronext Growth Milan. Findings show that, compared to non-family firms, companies with a family firm status are characterized by lower levels of ED. Gender diversity on the (...)
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    What if my boss is a narcissist? The effects of chief executive officer narcissism on female proportion in top management teams.Jennifer Martínez-Ferrero, Emma García-Meca & M. Camino Ramón-Llorens - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1201-1216.
    For the period 2015–2019 and based on a Spanish sample of 145 listed companies, this paper provides insights into how narcissistic chief executive officers (CEOs) influence the proportion of women in top management teams (TMTs). As a further analysis and in line with social psychology and upper echelons theories, we study whether the power and gender of a CEO and the female proportion in the firm's board moderate the relationship. Our results reveal that narcissistic CEOs are less likely to support (...)
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    Online sustainable development goals disclosure: A comparative study in Italian and Spanish local governments.Giuseppe Nicolò, Francisco Javier Andrades-Peña, Diana Ferullo & Domingo Martinez-Martinez - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1490-1505.
    In this study, we performed a comparative analysis to examine the extent to which local governments (LGs) in two Mediterranean countries – Spain and Italy – use their websites to disclose information related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in response to the launch of the United Nations' (UN) 2030 Agenda. We performed a manual content analysis of the official websites of all Italian and Spanish LGs with more than 100,000 inhabitants, constructing different disclosure indexes. We then used a non-parametric statistical (...)
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    Alasdair MacIntyre and Adam Smith on markets, virtues and ends in a capitalist economy.Paul Oslington - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1126-1138.
    In recent decades, Alasdair MacIntyre has developed a style of moral philosophy and an argument for Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics that has deeply influenced business ethics. Most of the work inspired by MacIntyre has dealt with individual and organisational dimensions of business ethics rather than the market economic environment in which individuals and organisations operate. MacIntyre has been a fierce critic of capitalism and economics. He has read Adam Smith an advocate of selfish individualism, rule-based ethics and the banishment of teleology. (...)
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    Institutional pressures and the adoption of responsible management education at universities and business schools in Central and Eastern Europe.Lutz Preuss, Heather Elms, Roman Kurdyukov, Urša Golob, Rodica Milena Zaharia, Borna Jalsenjak, Ryan Burg, Peter Hardi, Julija Jacquemod, Mari Kooskora, Siarhei Manzhynski, Tetiana Mostenska, Aurelija Novelskaite, Raminta Pučėtaitė, Rasa Pušinaitė-Gelgotė, Oleksandra Ralko, Boleslaw Rok, Dominik Stanny, Marina Stefanova & Lucie Tomancová - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1575-1591.
    Business schools, and universities providing business education, from across the globe have increasingly engaged in responsible management education (RME), that is in embedding social, environmental and ethical topics in their teaching and research. However, we still do not fully understand the institutional pressures that have led to the adoption of RME, in particular concerning under-researched regions like Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Hence, we undertook what is to our knowledge the most comprehensive study into the adoption of RME in CEE (...)
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    Not all green innovations are equally green: State ownership, green innovation generality and contingencies.Guannan Qu & Xin Pan - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1532-1546.
    This research scrutinises the correlation between state ownership and the attributes of green innovation, specifically underscoring generality as a primary trait of innovation favoured by governments. Green innovation with generality, due to its applicability across diverse contexts at reduced expense, becomes an appealing strategy for states to address environmental concerns. Consequently, we suggest that state ownership encourages the prevalence of green innovation characterised by generality. Furthermore, we delve into two contingencies related to ascribed and achieved political connections, positing that they, (...)
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    The role of leader favoritism, unfairness, and employability in employee psychological withdrawal behavior.Faridahwati Mohd Shamsudin, Shaker Bani-Melhem, Rawan Abukhait, Rekha Pillai & Samina Quratulain - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1185-1200.
    Given the adverse consequences of destructive leadership at work, we examine leader favoritism prevalent in contemporary organizations. Our study builds on previous research on unethical leadership behaviors and extends social exchange theory by assessing whether leader favoritism contributes to employee psychological withdrawal behavior at work and whether perceived unfairness explains this link, addressing a gap in the literature on this topic. In addition, we investigate the condition of perceived employability to seek whether the influence of perceived unfairness due to leader (...)
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    Does religious atmosphere promote corporate green innovation performance? Evidence from China.Maoyan She, Die Hu, Zhiwei Wang & Xuan Zhao - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1506-1531.
    Green innovation has been attracting much attention from academia and practice, but the influence of religion as an important informal institutional factor has not been fully investigated in existing studies. Taking Chinese listed companies from 2008 to 2019 as a sample, this study attempts to examine the relationship between religious atmosphere and corporate green innovation performance. The empirical results indicate that a religious atmosphere (Buddhism and Taoism as a whole) can significantly improve corporate green innovation performance, particularly high-quality green innovation. (...)
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    Inclusive leadership and work engagement: Exploring the role of psychological safety and trust in leader in multiple organizational context.Saeed Siyal - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1170-1184.
    Building on social information processing theory and social exchange theory, this research advances the emerging concept of work engagement and inclusive leadership. Surprisingly, there is no study linking work engagement and inclusive leadership style in the setting of multiple organizations in China. The main purpose of this study is to identify the effective leadership style affecting work engagement directly and indirectly through psychological safety. The trust in leader further moderated the direct relationships. Using multi-source data of 390 responses from leaders-subordinates (...)
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  23. Green side of informal institutions: Social trust and environmental sustainability.Daxin Sun, Yaxin Zhang & Xiaohua Meng - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1352-1372.
    Informal institutions are found to shape the behaviors of economic organizations within the business world by creating localized social norms and moral commitments. However, the existing literature pays greater attention to the financial consequences of such institutions, and little is known about their environmental impacts, especially in the context of transition economies. By linking institutional theory with environmental strategy literature, in this study, we develop a theoretical framework and empirically test how social trust, one of the dimensions of informal institutions, (...)
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    The impact of top management teams' faultlines on organizational transparency―Evidence from CSR initiatives.Yuefan Sun, Jidong Zhang, Jing Han & Qi Zhang - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1262-1276.
    Corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure is becoming increasingly important in practice, yet knowledge about the antecedents of such CSR initiatives is limited. Drawing on faultline theories, we expect that the compositional attributes of top management teams, such as the level of heterogeneity, influence their decisions about CSR disclosure and reporting. Data and a sample from Chinese publicly traded companies are used to examine our hypotheses. Our results demonstrate that a top management team's faultline strength is negatively related to CSR disclosure (...)
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    Ethical workplace climate in nonprofit organizations: Conceptualization and measurement.Govind Gopi Verma & Saswata Narayan Biswas - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1217-1232.
    Ethical workplace climate has been extensively researched in the for-profit context but neglected in nonprofits. Perhaps because nonprofits promote shared values, engage with people, and implement development interventions creating public good, they are considered implicitly ethical. This assumption has been questioned in recent studies. We attempted to develop a psychometrically valid scale measuring ethical workplace climate following a sequential research design to fill this gap. We interviewed 74 employees from 30 nonprofit organizations using the critical incident technique to generate statements (...)
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    Impact of digital transformation on performance of environment, social, and governance: Empirical evidence from China.Quan-Jing Wang, Hai-Jie Wang, Gen-Fu Feng & Chun-Ping Chang - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1373-1388.
    This research empirically investigates the static and dynamic impacts of firms' digital transformation on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance by employing data of listed Chinese companies from 2011 to 2020 via estimations of propensity score matching and difference in differences. First, we find that digital transformation does some good to improve firms' ESG, which is confirmed after conducting several robustness tests. Second, digital transformation benefits the three aspects of ESG (environmental performance, social responsibility, and governance), and its impact is (...)
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    Climate change and business accountability, empirical evidence on the roles of environmental strategy and environmental accounting.Mohammed S. Y. Omran & Mohammad N. S. Yaaqbeh - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1592-1608.
    This study examines the roles of environmental strategy and accounting in corporate carbon performance, as measured by the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. A novel interaction model is developed based on legitimacy theory and natural-resource dependence theory to capture the interaction between environmental strategy and accounting. An international sample of 3322 firms from 73 countries is used in the analysis, based on a panel data design for 17 years (2005–2022). The empirical findings reveal an overall reactive role of these environmental initiatives (...)
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    Personal values, consumer identities, and attitudes toward electric cars among Egyptian consumers.Omneya M. Yacout - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1563-1574.
    Marketing scholars have extensively examined the role of altruistic and ecological personal values and pro-environmental identity in ethical consumption decisions. Conversely, the role of egoistic personal values and other identities has received scant attention from researchers. This research examines the role of altruistic, egoistic, and ecological personal values in triggering two types of identities: pro-environmental and car-authority. The effects of values and identities on personal norms and attitudes toward electric cars were also examined. A sample of Egyptian consumers responded to (...)
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    The double‐edged sword of employee forgiveness: How forgiveness motives steer forgiveness toward interpersonal citizenship behaviors and interpersonal deviance.Junwei Zhang, Yajun Zhang & Lu Lu - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1247-1261.
    Previous research has almost universally shown that forgiveness is a beneficial virtue that can generate a series of positive outcomes. We challenge this prevailing view by proposing that employee forgiveness is a mixed blessing. Setting off from distinguishing the motives behind forgiveness, we integrated the relational perspective and ego depletion theory to explore the beneficial and detrimental consequences of employee forgiveness. Specifically, our study investigated when and how employee forgiveness leads to interpersonal citizenship behaviors (ICBs) and interpersonal deviance. Using a (...)
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    Differential impact of chief executive officer tenure on the firm's external and internal corporate social responsibility: Moderating effects of firm's visibility and slack.Marwan Al-Shammari, Soumendra Banerjee, Miguel Caldas & Krist Swimberghe - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):961-985.
    Inconsistent corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices across stakeholder groups may induce undesired consequences for the firm. This study investigates the longitudinal and differential effect of chief executive officer (CEO) tenure on external and internal CSR and the moderating effects of two important contingencies relevant to the firm's social investments: firm visibility and slack availability. It presents CEO tenure as an important upper echelon factor that may induce differential preferences toward external and internal CSR and, therefore, CSR inconsistencies. Accordingly, it proposes (...)
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    How does environmental corporate social responsibility contribute to the development of a green corporate image? The sequential mediating roles of employees' environmental passion and pro‐environmental behavior.Muhammad Asghar Ali, Abdul Zahid Khan, Muhammad Umer Azeem & ul Haq Inam - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):896-909.
    Drawing on social cognitive theory and social information processing theory, this study investigated how organizations' efforts to embody environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) shape consumer perception of a green corporate image through employees' environmental passion and pro-environmental behavior (PEB). To test our hypotheses, we collected multisource time-lagged data from 214 employee–customer dyads from hotel and banking sector organizations in Pakistan. The findings show that organizations' green corporate image is a function of their efforts to engage in ECSR activities as demonstrated (...)
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    Saving the world through private‐sector efficiency and local empowerment? Discursive legitimacy construction for social entrepreneurship in the Global South.Eva Katzer & Tina Sendlhofer - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):1020-1041.
    In efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, social entrepreneurship has gained popularity as a vehicle for positive change in developing countries. The multiplicity of stakeholders, diverging sociocultural contexts and the hybrid mission complicate the process of legitimacy construction for social entrepreneurs as a basis for the acquisition of scarce resources. This study investigates how social entrepreneurs operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia tackle this challenge of bridging conflicting directions in discursive interaction with their European funders. We conduct a multimodal (...)
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    The influence of Islam in shaping organisational socially responsible behaviour.Petya Koleva, Maureen Meadows & Ahmed Elmasry - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):1001-1019.
    The role of religion in ethical decision-making, both for individual managers and at an organisational level, remains elusive due to contrasting findings in extant literature. This is exacerbated by a dearth of studies focusing on specific religious mechanisms that can foster ethical decision-making, particularly with respect to organisational corporate socially responsible (CSR) behaviour and in backgrounds different from Christianity. This exploratory study investigates the mechanisms in Islam that can influence individual/micro- and organisational/meso-level ethical decision-making, and hence CSR outcomes. It draws (...)
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    All about the human: A Buddhist take on AI ethics.Chien-Te Lin - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):1113-1122.
    As AI technology becomes more influential, ethical considerations surrounding its application are becoming increasingly relevant. In this paper, I reflect on some moral questions from a Buddhist perspective and consider the moral status of AI to evaluate its function and purpose in our lives. Since a robot lacks the capacity to experience suffering and has no conscience, AI ethics are possible only as ethics about robots and not as ethics for robots. Despite having no concrete moral status, robots cannot be (...)
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    Sustainability and interactive network branding in fast‐changing business environments.Stefan Markovic, Nikolina Koporcic, Georges Samara & Ralf Barkemeyer - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):877-881.
    Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 877-881, July 2023.
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    Do academic CEOs influence corporate social irresponsibility? The moderating effects of negative attainment discrepancy and slack resources.Liuyang Ren, Xi Zhong & Liangyong Wan - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):946-960.
    Academic experience has been found to significantly impact on the attitudes and behaviors of managerial decision-makers, which in turn influences corporate strategic decisions. However, the impact of academic decision-makers on corporate ethical decisions, particularly corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR), has yet to receive due attention to date. In this study, we integrate the upper echelons theory and managerial discretion literature to examine whether and when academic CEOs (CEOs with academic experience) influence corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR). First, we suggest that academic CEOs (...)
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    Analysing the impact of green consumption values on brand responses and behavioural intention.Marcello Risitano, Rosaria Romano, Giuseppe La Ragione & Michele Quintano - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):1096-1112.
    Environmental sustainability is an increasingly important issue for many business and social actors. This has led many scholars to research the effects of this phenomenon from various points of view trying to understand whether green attitudes can influence consumer behaviours in sustaining consumer–brand relationships. Accordingly, this paper aims to explore the impact of green consumer values on consumer–brand relationships in driving intentional behaviour. The authors developed an empirical study based on a research framework with six latent variables and 43 manifest (...)
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    Exploring the effect of socially responsible human resource management on employee resilience: The role of basic psychological needs and collectivism.Dan-Ping Shao, Yun Peng & Yang Ji - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):910-924.
    Resilience has become a topic of renewed interest due to the frequent difficulties encountered by organisations and individuals in the present turbulent world. It is widely recognised that HRM practices play a crucial role in stimulating employee resilience. However, only few studies have explored the role of socially responsible human resource management (SRHRM) in enhancing employee resilience. Accordingly, our study aims to address this research gap by utilising self-determination theory to develop a theoretical model clarifying the effect of SRHRM on (...)
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    Behavioral economics and monetary wisdom: A cross‐level analysis of monetary aspiration, pay (dis)satisfaction, risk perception, and corruption in 32 nations.Thomas Li-Ping Tang, Zhen Li, Mehmet Ferhat Özbek, Vivien K. G. Lim, Thompson S. H. Teo, Mahfooz A. Ansari, Toto Sutarso, Ilya Garber, Randy Ki-Kwan Chiu, Brigitte Charles-Pauvers, Caroline Urbain, Roberto Luna-Arocas, Jingqiu Chen, Ningyu Tang, Theresa Li-Na Tang, Fernando Arias-Galicia, Consuelo Garcia De La Torre, Peter Vlerick, Adebowale Akande, Abdulqawi Salim Al-Zubaidi, Ali Mahdi Kazem, Mark G. Borg, Bor-Shiuan Cheng, Linzhi Du, Abdul Hamid Safwat Ibrahim, Kilsun Kim, Eva Malovics, Richard T. Mpoyi, Obiajulu Anthony Ugochukwu Nnedum, Elisaveta Gjorgji Sardžoska, Michael W. Allen, Rosário Correia, Chin-Kang Jen, Alice S. Moreira, Johnston E. Osagie, AAhad M. Osman-Gani, Ruja Pholsward, Marko Polic, Petar Skobic, Allen F. Stembridge, Luigina Canova, Anna Maria Manganelli, Adrian H. Pitariu & Francisco José Costa Pereira - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):925-945.
    Corruption involves greed, money, and risky decision-making. We explore the love of money, pay satisfaction, probability of risk, and dishonesty across cultures. Avaricious monetary aspiration breeds unethicality. Prospect theory frames decisions in the gains-losses domain and high-low probability. Pay dissatisfaction (in the losses domain) incites dishonesty in the name of justice at the individual level. The Corruption Perceptions Index, CPI, signals a high-low probability of getting caught for dishonesty at the country level. We theorize that decision-makers adopt avaricious love-of-money aspiration (...)
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    When consumers lose power: An examination of the stakeholder dynamics in the pharmaceutical industry.Zhi Tang, Ezekiel Leo, Clyde Hull, Xudong Fu & William Stromeyer - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):986-1000.
    Primary stakeholder pressure has long been considered the main reason that firms engage in responsible behaviors. However, prior studies are generally silent on how industry characteristics reshape the relationships among stakeholders. By integrating information asymmetry in credence goods industries with the stakeholder power framework, we posit that the extent to which consumers can evaluate the qualities of goods alters the dynamics between a firm and its two primary stakeholders, regulators and consumers. Longitudinal data collected on 72 pharmaceutical companies indicate that (...)
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    Assessing the interplay between Open Innovation and Sustainability‐Oriented Innovation: A systematic literature review and a research agenda.Andrea Urbinati, Zahra Shams Esfandabadi & Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):1078-1095.
    Open Innovation and Sustainability-Oriented Innovation are undoubtedly two of the most debated topics of the last decades, gaining the interest of policymakers, practitioners, and scholars all over the world. Even if they have been usually described as two independent research fields, there are some emblematic examples presenting interplay and synergy between these topics, represented either by the hybrid perspectives of Open Sustainable Innovation, that is, the Open Innovation approach acting as an enabler of Sustainability-Oriented Innovation, and Sustainable Open Innovation, which (...)
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    Meaningful work and unethical work: The crisis in Australian financial advice.Andrew West - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):882-895.
    Recurrent scandals in business ethics demonstrate that work is, on occasion, unambiguously unethical. It is not clear, however, exactly how the concept of ‘meaningful work’ can be applied to such work, and whether, for example, work can be both unethical and meaningful. This article explores three different conceptualisations of meaningful work: where meaningful work is considered to be subjective, primarily subjective but with objective constraints or primarily objective (adopting Alasdair MacIntyre's neo-Aristotelian framework). These competing conceptualisations are examined in relation to (...)
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    Near and dear: How the politicians' home bias influences corporate philanthropy in China.Juelin Yin, Chunfang Cao, Fansheng Jia & Jiaxin Zhao - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):1042-1059.
    Building on institutional theory, we examine the effect of politicians' hometown favouritism on a firm's philanthropic engagement in China. We propose that firms headquartered in the politicians' hometowns tend to reduce their philanthropic investment because identification with their hometown activates the politicians' tendency to extend political legitimacy to hometown firms. Analysing a large sample of publicly listed Chinese firms for 2003–2015, we demonstrate that hometown firms evade their social responsibility by taking advantage of the incumbent provincial political leader's “home bias”. (...)
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    Does performance persistence below aspirations affect firms' accounting information disclosure strategies? An empirical study based on reliability and comparability.Xi Zhong, Liuyang Ren & Ge Ren - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (3):1060-1077.
    Integrating the behavioral theory of the firm and agency theory, this study is the first to examine the antecedents of firms' choice to disclose low-quality accounting information from the perspective of performance persistence below aspirations. Based on empirical data of 31,326 firm-annual observations involving 3584 listed companies for the 2007–2021 period, we find that firms actively reduce accounting information reliability and comparability in the presence of performance persistence below aspirations. Furthermore, we find that CEO-CFO surname ties enhance the negative effect (...)
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    Passionate to be a social entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia: A moderated mediation analysis of social entrepreneurial intention.Wassim J. Aloulou, Eidah A. Algarni, Veland Ramadani & Mathew Hughes - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):698-712.
    This study aims to unravel the determinants of social entrepreneurial intention (SEI). Using a moderated mediation approach, we examine the direct and indirect effects of prior experience with social problems, proactive personality, and social self-efficacy on SEI via social entrepreneurial passion for founding (SEP) as a mediator. This study is based on data collected from a survey using questionnaires completed by 283 Saudis. To analyze data and test the developed hypotheses, we used exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses followed by structural (...)
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    Diving deep into the dark side: A review and examination of research on organizational misconduct in emerging markets.Amitabh Anand, Daniel Rottig, Nakul Parameswar & Anne Marie Zwerg-Villegas - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):612-637.
    For three decades, scholars have investigated the phenomena of organizational misconduct (OM) in the fields of business ethics, management, and organization studies. In recent years, the construct has gained increased attention due to widely reported corruption, bribery, crime, violations, and other acts of immorality undertaken by organizations, especially in emerging markets. Despite its popularity, review studies on OM are sparse, and no systematic review of research on OM in the context of emerging markets exists. This article attempts to fill this (...)
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    Long‐term effects of institutional conditions on perceived corruption – A study on organizational imprinting in post‐communist countries.Thorsten Auer, Karin Knorr & Kirsten Thommes - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):478-497.
    In this paper, we apply imprinting theory to examine how institutional transformation substantially influences perceptions of corruption that we argue to be incorporated to a varying extent in organizations founded in that period. For this purpose, we compare the effect of a sudden shock (dissolution of the Soviet Union) on the managers' present perceptions to that of a steady transition (EU accession). We consult the 5th round of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey from 2012 to 2014 analyzing 4715 (...)
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    The influence of government support over environmental protection investment on SMEs: R&D collaboration and financial aspects.Sonia Benito-Hernández, Cristina López-Cózar-Navarro & Tiziana Priede-Bergamini - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):836-846.
    This paper aims to improve knowledge about the main factors influencing firm environmental commitment, by examining empirically the relationship between public support for R&D for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and their investment in environmental protection. The empirical analysis was developed using a sample of 1594 Spanish firms, and a binary logistic regression to evaluate the existence of dependency relationships between the analyzed variables. The results show that those companies receiving direct funding from local public entities and those collaborating with (...)
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    Follow the genuine leader: The “green imitation”.Reyes Calderón, María Ortiz De Urbina & Luis Expósito - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):570-581.
    The combined effect of coercion (public and private pressure), self-interest (competitive advantage) and conviction (intrinsically motivated or genuine) explain why environmental issues have become a key priority for companies. While research has explored coercion and competitive advantage, the role of conviction has received little attention. This paper aims to address this gap. Conviction, which has been correlated with institutional and individual drivers, offers more stable results and a potential multiplier effect as good examples are disseminated by imitation throughout an industry. (...)
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    The effect of corporate donation motive attribution on investors' judgments of future earnings prospects: The moderating role of individual moral orientation.Ye Chen & Naiding Yang - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):435-453.
    We experimentally investigate whether donation motive attribution influences individual investors' judgments of the donating firm's future earnings prospects and whether individual moral orientation, that is, perceived importance of social goodwill (PISG), moderates this effect. We find that investors forecast higher future earnings per share (EPS) when the donation motive is believed to be altruistic or win–win rather than egoistic; the EPS forecasts for altruistic and win–win motives are not different. However, this motive attribution effect holds only for higher-PISG investors. A (...)
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    Ethical judgments in the sharing economy: When consumers misbehave, providers complain.Barbara Culiberg, Barbara Čater, Ibrahim Abosag & Petar Gidaković - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):517-531.
    The complex triadic relationships among consumers, providers, and platforms in the sharing economy have led to increasing conflicts in the interactions between the actors involved, especially when it comes to unethical behavior, such as rule breaking by consumers. This paper examines consumer misbehavior from the perspective of their peers, i.e., service providers. In two studies (an experiment and a survey, combined N = 452), we observe a significant positive effect of ethical climate and a significant negative effect of trust in (...)
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    Moral courage and manager‐regret.Craig Duckworth - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):467-477.
    It has been suggested that moral courage in the workplace supports more robust application of regulatory principles. A workforce with the courage to act on moral imperative, it is argued, can bolster corporate governance and promote both more stable business organisations and greater economic stability at large. Research in the area investigates the bases of moral courage, a central implication being that businesses should invest in ethical training as a matter of public policy. It is standard to present moral courage (...)
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    The impact at stake: Risk and return in publicly listed social impact firms.Emanuela Giacomini, Nicoletta Marinelli & Luca Riccetti - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):713-741.
    This study investigates the risk and return characteristics of impact investing in the public equity market. We use a unique hand-collected dataset of 50 US listed firms whose product (or service) addresses at least one of the global social and environmental challenges, as defined by the United Nations Social Development Goals (SDGs). We designate such firms Impact Firms, and we compare their financial performance to a matched sample of Non-Impact Firms in the time span 2002–2019. Our results show that Impact (...)
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    Business ethics: Between Friedman and Freeman? A response to A Puzzle about Business Ethics.Matthias P. Hühn - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):868-876.
    The biggest research programme within business ethics is arguably Corporate Social Responsibility and all its related streams (Corporate Citizenship, Social Justice, etc.) While there seems to be widespread agreement that business ethics is situated between the amoral or even immoral view of Milton Friedman as explicated in his 1970 New York Times paper, and the moral view expounded by R. Edward Freeman, this essay challenges that view. Friedman, maybe owed to his flamboyant writing style and crude and purely rhetorical oversimplifications (...)
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    Sophistry or wisdom in words: Aristotle on rhetoric and leadership.Matthias P. Hühn & Marcel Meyer - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):544-554.
    In the leadership literature of the past 100 years or so, rhetoric has been a topic for a long time and ethics was introduced some 30 years ago. However, the three topics, leadership, rhetoric, and ethics, have not been connected. This is astonishing because when ethical leadership made its comeback, scholars acknowledged the debt that ethical leadership owes to Aristotelian ideas. For Aristotle, leadership, ethics, and rhetoric were inseparable: without ethics, there could neither be good leadership nor rhetoric, and rhetoric (...)
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    Inside the black box of responsible consumers: Novel perspectives from an integrative literature review.Pietro Lanzini & Antonio Tencati - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):847-867.
    As consumers represent a key actor for the success of businesses implementing socially responsible strategies, companies need to gain further insights on the determinants of responsible behaviors. In this study, we provide a contribution to the ongoing debate on responsible consumers by means of an integrative literature review, which analyzes a set of competing models mainly from social psychology and marketing. Stemming from this preliminary analysis of the existing evidence, we develop a new conceptual model, that is, a framework based (...)
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    Pursuing innovative solutions to sustainability problems through openness: A future research agenda.Stefan Markovic, Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Ralf Barkemeyer & Georges Samara - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):415-418.
    Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 415-418, April 2023.
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    Knowledge base for social capital's role in scaling social impact: A bibliometric analysis.Md Fazla Mohiuddin, Ida Md Yasin & Ahmed R. A. Latiff - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):742-772.
    Social capital and scaling social impact are two of the most important concepts within social entrepreneurship and social enterprise research. However, what role social capital plays in scaling social impact is less understood and academic literatures on the connection of these two crucial concepts are fragmented and scattered. To fill this research gap, we have conducted a bibliometric review to inform academics and researchers the salient agents in the field and categorize the conceptual structure of the knowledge base. Using science (...)
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    Ethical leadership in a complex environment: A case study on Nunavik health organizations.Geneviève Morin & David Talbot - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):582-598.
    Despite being the primary homeland of Quebec's Inuit people, Nunavik's health care is typically planned and provided by non-Inuit newcomers. This retrospective case study investigates the effects of ethical leadership on the Westernized local Nunavik health care system's cultural sensitivity to its disproportionately Inuit populations. An integrative framework is developed that considers the dimensions of ethical leadership and the omnibus and discrete dimensions of context. This study shows that some Nunavik health care managers seek to improve and adapt the system (...)
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    Leader expectations facilitate employee pro‐environmental behavior.Qi Nie, Jian Peng & Guangyu Yu - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):555-569.
    Faced with increasing global environmental problems, organizational scholars and practitioners have increasingly considered how to promote employee pro-environmental behavior. This research seeks to expand our understanding of the facilitators of employee pro-environmental behavior from the perspective of leader expectations. Drawing on behavioral confirmation theory, we propose that leader pro-environmental expectations are expressed in active support for the environment, which subsequently facilitates employee pro-environmental behavior, thus rising to meet the leader's initial expectations. Furthermore, we argue that the above relationship becomes stronger (...)
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    Conflicts between mining companies and communities: Institutional environments and conflict resolution approaches.Chang Hoon Oh, Jiyoung Shin & Shuna Shu Ham Ho - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):638-656.
    Although companies recognize the importance of social responsibility and community engagement, conflicts between companies and communities have been noticeably increasing. To better understand the role of institutional environments in company–community conflicts, we analyze two mining conflicts—Minera Yanacocha's Minas Conga extension project in Peru and Minera Los Pelambres' El Mauro Tailings Dam in Chile. Our findings imply that, to prevent negative consequences and alleviate company–community conflicts, mining companies should address underlying structural causes and pursue informal approaches in order to obtain and (...)
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    The state of ethical decision‐making research in accounting: A retrospective assessment from 1987 to 2022.Godfred Matthew Yaw Owusu & Gabriel Korankye - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):419-434.
    This study employs the bibliometric analysis approach to examine research on ethical decision-making (EDM) of accountants from 1987 to 2022. The study specifically examines the developments in EDM research and evaluates the intellectual structure of the research field. Employing citation, co-authorship, co-occurrence and bibliographic coupling analyses, bibliometric data on 908 publications from the Scopus database was analysed. The results indicate that there has been a significant increase in the rate of publication on EDM of accountants following the spate of ethical (...)
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    Impact of returnee executives and managerial discretion on excess perquisite consumption.Ge Ren, Ping Zeng & Xi Zhong - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):498-516.
    This study examines the impact of returnee executives on top management teams' (TMTs') unethical management behavior (e.g., excess perquisite consumption). Synthesizing insights from upper echelons theory and the psychological entitlement literature, this study proposes that returnee executives cause TMTs to generate a high degree of psychological entitlement, which subsequently leads to a high degree of excess perquisite consumption in their firms. In addition, this study proposes that returnee chief executive officers, product diversification, and regional institutional development moderate the aforementioned relationships (...)
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    Impact of returnee executives and managerial discretion on excess perquisite consumption.Ge Ren, Ping Zeng & Xi Zhong - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):498-516.
    This study examines the impact of returnee executives on top management teams' (TMTs') unethical management behavior (e.g., excess perquisite consumption). Synthesizing insights from upper echelons theory and the psychological entitlement literature, this study proposes that returnee executives cause TMTs to generate a high degree of psychological entitlement, which subsequently leads to a high degree of excess perquisite consumption in their firms. In addition, this study proposes that returnee chief executive officers, product diversification, and regional institutional development moderate the aforementioned relationships (...)
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    ESG and volatility risk: International evidence.Omid Sabbaghi - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):802-818.
    This study examines the volatility risk for firms that are rated high on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions in emerging markets and developed markets outside the United States and Canada. Employing the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) ESG Leader indices, this study investigates the impact of good news and bad news on the volatility risk for the highest ESG-rated firms through multivariate DCC-EGARCH modeling. This study finds that the impact of a negative news shock of size 2 standard deviations (...)
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    Employee engagement, innovative work behaviour, and employee wellbeing: Do workplace spirituality and individual spirituality matter?Narjes Haj Salem, Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq, Samina Yaqoob, Ali Raza & Haleema Zia - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):657-669.
    Promoting innovative work behaviour and employee wellbeing has become essential as it endows companies with competitive advantages to thrive in today's complex business environment. This study investigates the role of workplace spirituality in inducing innovative work behaviour and employee wellbeing based on the social exchange theory and the spillover theory. It also looks at the previously unexplored mediating function of employee engagement in the relationship between workplace spirituality and the outcomes above. Additionally, it examines the interactive effect of workplace spirituality (...)
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    A generational perspective of family firms' social capital: Interplay between ethical leadership and firm performance.Valeriano Sanchez-Famoso, Amaia Maseda, Txomin Iturralde & Mikel Alayo - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):773-789.
    This study proposes and tests a model that integrates ethical leadership, internal social capital, and firm performance in small- and medium-sized family firms at different generational stages. Using the upper echelons theory and the social capital perspective of familiness, this study shows that ethical leadership can explain the effectiveness of certain behaviors in relation to family firm performance. Moreover, social capital helps spread a leader's business ethics to firm members, thus improving the family firm's performance. Our results show that founders' (...)
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    Board gender diversity, government subsidies, and green vehicles sales: Evidence from China.Vik Singh, Sui Sui & Xiaodan Guo - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):790-801.
    This article investigates whether increased female representation on a board improves firm performance in terms of electric vehicle (EV) sales in China when government subsidies are available. The increase in EV sales in China is a direct result of the sustainability efforts spearheaded by the various levels of local and state governments. This area is of importance due to the rising Chinese footprint in global EV sales, the increasing role of subsidies, and a transformation from State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to market-driven (...)
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    The virtues of the exemplary moral leader. Lessons from Aristotle's ethics.Berry Tholen - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):532-543.
    Many contemporary theories on good leadership (e.g., ‘moral leadership’, ‘responsible leadership’, ‘authentic leadership’ or ‘transformational leadership’) emphasize the importance of intrinsic motivation in followers and of leading by example. This also involves a rejection of the use of power and manipulation as well as advocacy for virtues such as modesty and a concern for equality. By focusing on magnanimity (Aristotle's virtue of the great), we show that, contrary to what contemporary theories often claim, there are good reasons for exemplary leaders (...)
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    Which firms opt for corporate social responsibility assurance? A machine learning prediction.Ephraim Kwashie Thompson & Samuel Buertey - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):599-611.
    On the background of voluntary assurances made by corporations in line with the assertions in their corporate social responsibility disclosures, we investigate which types of firms will obtain an independent certification of their corporate social responsibility disclosures. The study is based on firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from 2015 to 2019. Deviating from traditional regression approaches, we employ machine learning techniques and show that machine learning techniques obtain superior performance compared to traditional logistic regression at predicting the (...)
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    Does religiosity affect financing activity? Evidence from Indonesia.Ibrahim Fatwa Wijaya, Andrea Moro & Yacine Belghitar - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):670-697.
    We examine the role of religiosity on the financing activities in both Islamic and conventional banks in Indonesian provinces by using five different measures of religiosity: number of Islamic schools, hajj application, number of Islamic seminary schools, number of Mosques, and number of certified halal products. Based on regression analysis, the results show that both Islamic and conventional banks provide more financing in religious provinces. Religiosity also helps in reducing the volume of non-performing financing. Our the results are still qualitatively (...)
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    Top management teams' foreign experience, environmental regulation, and firms' green innovation.Xuejiao Zhang, Qingyang Zhao, Wanfu Li & Yu Wang - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (2):819-835.
    In this study, we examine how top management teams' foreign experience affects firms' green innovation performance and what role environmental regulation plays in their association. Using a large data set on firms' green patents and foreign work or education experience of top management teams from China, we find robust evidence that firms whose top management team members have foreign experience achieve significantly more green patents, and this positive relationship is more pronounced for firms subject to strong environmental regulation. Our findings (...)
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    Capitalism, COVID‐19 and lockdowns.Philipp Bagus, José Antonio Peña-Ramos & Antonio Sánchez-Bayón - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S1):41-51.
    Commentators believe that the COVID-19 pandemic reveals the inconveniences of capitalism and that the end of “neoliberalism” could be near. In this article we show that a capitalist ethics is capable to deal with the challenges of pandemics and comes with important advantages such as the prevention of overreactions. We apply both utilitarian and rights-based ethics to the case of epidemics in general and COVID-19 in particular. First a libertarian natural law ethics is used to assess the government interventions in (...)
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    Cause‐related marketing in pandemic context—The effects of cause‐brand fit and cause‐brand alliance on customer‐based legitimacy and reputation.Sylvaine Castellano, Insaf Khelladi, Rossella Sorio, Saeedeh Rezaee Vessal, Judith Partouche-Sebban & Mehmet A. Orhan - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S3).
    Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has represented an intense period of stress and anxiety for individuals, it has also been an opportunity for firms to engage in cause-related marketing initiatives as a means of providing support and helping them cope with this global pandemic. This study analyzes the influence of cause–brand fit and cause–brand alliance on customer-based legitimacy and reputation. This study also examines the mediating and moderating roles of trust and betrayal, respectively. Data were collected from 455 participants during (...)
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    Caring for survivors: Do CSR policies matter for post‐restructuring employee performance?Delia Cornea, Yulia Titova & Jeanne Le Roy - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S2):111-126.
    Organizational restructuring involving mass layoffs is an integral part of the corporate strategic landscape. While aimed at increasing a company’s efficiency and profitability, it often falls short of desired objectives, partly due to negative consequences for remaining employees, the so-called “survivors”. As workforce reductions may jeopardize a company’s legitimacy, we develop a model that links the change in post-restructuring employee productivity to the factors that help mitigate legitimacy issues. By using a comprehensive and innovative dataset of restructuring announcements reported by (...)
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    The CSR‐19 scale: A measure of corporate social responsibility actions during COVID‐19 pandemic.Yousef Eiadat - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S3).
    In this article, I developed the CSR-19 scale to assess the perceptions company executives have of CSR actions during the COVID-19 pandemic and to conceptualize the economic, legal, social, and environmental aspects of CSR actions as a high-order construct. This paper's findings suggest that the legal, environmental, and social aspects of CSR actions are being perceived to positively contribute to companies' CSR actions, but the economic aspect of CSR actions is deemed to contribute negatively to companies' CSR actions. The 16-item (...)
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    Calm after the storm? The role of social and environmental practices on small and medium enterprises resilience throughout COVID‐19 crisis.Vera Ferrón-Vílchez & Dante I. Leyva-de la Hiz - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S3).
    This study aims to analyze whether resilient SMEs have been able to overcome the bump of the COVID-19 crisis in terms of profitability. When facing such unforeseen crises, SMEs require resilience, and one of the factors that positively affect resilience generation is the adoption of social and environmental practices (SEPs). Using survey data on the managerial perceptions of 259 SMEs, this study reveals the positive association between resilience and improvements in business performance, and how the adoption of SEPs is an (...)
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    Capitalism & ethics.Gabriel Flynn, Michael Aßländer & Daryl Koehn - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S1):1-3.
    Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 1-3, April 2023.
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    The conception of organizational integrity: A derivation from the individual level using a virtue‐based approach.Madeleine J. Fuerst & Christoph Luetge - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S1):25-33.
    This paper extends previous attempts at understanding the nature of organizational integrity and its increasingly important role for companies which, after all, bear a moral and societal responsibility. Interpretations of organizational integrity in business ethics literature incorporate aspects ranging from the behavior of managers and employees to corporate structures and incentive systems. We argue that virtue ethics builds an indispensable framework for understanding the origin of the concept of integrity and transfer these findings to an organizational level. Hence, we first (...)
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    How does collaborative economy contribute to common good?Rosario Gomez-Alvarez & Rafael Morales-Sánchez - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S2):68-83.
    Collaborative economy emerged as a response to the need of people to exchange, produce and share in a more humane and cooperative manner. However, the growth of collaborative economy organizations and the terminological confusion have led to debates about their possible effects, both positive and negative. In this study, we have created a guideline that can be used to evaluate the contribution of organizations considered within collaborative economy to common good. We used the conceptualization of common good, which, from its (...)
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    How financial institutions can serve the common good of society: Insights from Catholic Social Teaching.Gregorio Guitián - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S2):84-95.
    This article addresses the service of financial companies to society from the perspective of the Catholic Social Teaching (hereinafter CST), specifically regarding conflicts of interest between banks and their customers. The article begins with a case based on interviews with professionals in the financial sector, which provides the context for the CST’s contribution. The analysis of the aforementioned conflicts points to an apparent disconnect between service to society and service to customers. Thus, the bank would set aside the customer’s interests (...)
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    Rules versus principles for ethical market behaviour.Patrick Honohan - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S1):34-40.
    In designing regulation, as has long been recognized in the academic literature, there is a tension between reliance on fixed mechanical “bright line” rules and the flexibility offered by granting a degree of discretion to the regulator subject to guiding principles. The failure of principles-based financial regulation a decade ago reinforced a trend towards mechanical rules. This essay, drawing on practical experience gleaned in the years following the Global Financial Crisis, argues that both are needed; indeed, in many cases, the (...)
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    Understanding the mechanisms of sustainable capitalism: The 4S model.Anna John, Johan Coetsee & Patrick C. Flood - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S1):15-24.
    Neo-capitalistic approaches to value creation have sometimes developed a bad reputation in terms of sustainability and care for the environment. Yet, there are examples to the contrary emphasising a concern for sustainable capitalism. Our literature synthesis suggests that there is a lack of understanding of the sustainability mechanisms—ways of working helping companies to achieve their leadership in sustainability and maintain it over time. We contribute by addressing this deficiency and specifying four discrete mechanisms which we call the 4S model. Specifically, (...)
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    Capitalism and crises: A comparative analysis of mainstream and heterodox perceptions and related ethical considerations.Sophia Kuehnlenz, Valeria Andreoni & Imko Meyenburg - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S1):52-64.
    This paper analyses the main perceptions of capitalism and crises from a mainstream and heterodox perspective. Broadly defined within the neoclassical structure, the mainstream approaches support the idea of long-term stability of capitalism and describe crises as exogenous events. The heterodox perceptions, on the contrary, perceive crises as an internal feature of capitalism and propose to reframe the global economy within the limits of the socio-environmental systems. Despite the historical recurrence of crises, the neoclassic capitalist framework and the related mainstream (...)
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    T(w)alking responsibility: A case of CSR performativity during the COVID‐19 pandemic.Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo & Jean-Luc Moriceau - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S3).
    This paper centers on a case study of CSR performativity during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the extant CSR literature, CSR performativity has focused on “walking the talk” and/or “talking the walk,” wherein narrative and action around CSR are typically treated as two different things with their relationships questioned. We focus on what has been called “t(w)alking” wherein speech is understood to be performative and wherein speech acts and CSR are merged, becoming one and the same thing. Performativity then entails what (...)
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  86. How did corporate responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic correspond with CSR?Fabien Martinez, Frank Figge, Sylvaine Castellano, Atreya Chakraborty & Lucia Silva-Gao - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S3):161-165.
    This editorial of the special issue addresses the question of whether/how responses to the Covid-19 pandemic corresponded with authentic CSR. The literature on CSR has tended to endorse a business-centric perspective and its inherent focus on the search for alignments between CSR activities and the economic/financial interests of the firm. The Covid-19 pandemic has put this perspective to the test, pushing many companies to engage in distinctively more genuine and authentic CSR and/or demonstrating the importance of prior CSR engagement in (...)
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    Changes in corporate social responsibility activity during a pandemic: The case of COVID‐19.Kamel Mellahi, Belaid Rettab, Sangeeta Sharma, Mathew Hughes & Paul Hughes - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S3):270-290.
    This study examines the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) during COVID-19. Little is known about how organizations practice CSR during acute exogenous crises. Overlooking how CSR practices change during a crisis matters because organizations are compelled into trade-offs that carry implications for their CSR initiatives. Analysis of interview data with CSR managers, from 21 Dubai-based business organizations during COVID-19, uncovers changes in the content and process of CSR during the pandemic. The results show that the practice of CSR underwent (...)
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    Stakeholder relations of sustainable banks: Community benefit above the common good.Anastasia Naranova-Nassauer - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S2):96-110.
    This paper explores stakeholder relations of sustainable banks as organizations that simultaneously pursue the community development and market profitability goals. The study features the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), an international group of 62 financial institutions and 16 strategic partners, which collectively hold $200 billion USD of assets under management. Using the organizational identity orientation framework (Brickson, 2005, 2007), it reveals that, contrary to widely held assumptions that community-focused organizations serve a broad common good purpose, sustainable banks take (...)
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    The Enterprise at the Service of Society in the 21st century.Ginés Marco Perles, Pedro Francés-Gómez & Domènec Melé - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S2):65-67.
    Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue S2, Page 65-67, September 2023.
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    Whose work? Which markets? Rethinking work and markets in light of virtue ethics.Javier Pinto-Garay, Germán Scalzo & Martin Schlag - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S1):4-14.
    Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics applied to work and business theory have received increasing attention due to Alasdair MacIntyre's philosophy. At the same time, this approach has been accused of being inapplicable, a romantic nostalgia for an ideal world far from the reality of today's markets. Moreover, the more this theory evolves, the bigger the gap seems to become, as if good work were at odds with its economic dimension. This paper aims to address this gap by explaining how MacIntyre's neo-Aristotelianism conceives (...)
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    Corporate social responsibility and COVID‐19: Prior reporting experience and assurance.Ehsan Poursoleyman, Gholamreza Mansourfar, Jamal Nazari & Saeid Homayoun - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S3):212-242.
    The novel COVID-19 has created an exogenous shock to capital markets and, hence, an ideal opportunity for researchers to assess whether CSR-related activities provide an insurance-like mechanism to protect firms against the shock. Using a large sample of 4361 firms domiciled in 40 countries, we investigate the roles of CSR reporting and assurance in the negative consequences of COVID-19 on firm value. The results confirm that prior CSR reporting experience buffers firms against the adverse effects of the health crisis. The (...)
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    Surviving or solidarity? Crisis responses of small and medium‐sized enterprises during the Covid‐19 pandemic.Julia Roloff - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S3):243-256.
    The Covid-19 pandemic posed a serious threat to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This explorative qualitative study of 100 SMEs from 20 industries and 21 countries investigates how entrepreneurs responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and which cognitive frames guided their actions. Observed cognitive frames prioritize either business survival, conversion of business and stakeholder interest, or acceptance of conflicting social and financial goals. These cognitive frames influence the choice of crisis response without determining it. Four response patterns were found: weathering the (...)
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    Team‐level servant leadership and team performance: The mediating roles of organizational citizenship behavior and internal social capital.Pablo Ruiz-Palomino, Jorge Linuesa-Langreo & Dioni Elche - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S2):127-144.
    Among the many approaches to leadership, servant leaders stand out for the emphasis they place on the importance of service to their followers, the organization, and the broader community. We develop and test a multilevel mediation model, in which the relationship between servant leadership and team performance is sequentially transmitted through individual-level organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and team-based internal social capital. Multilevel structural equation modeling was applied to a sample of 343 teams, reflecting 835 respondents from various departments at 171 (...)
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    A personalist approach to business ethics: New perspectives for virtue ethics and servant leadership.Germán Scalzo, Kleio Akrivou & Manuel Joaquín Fernández González - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S2):145-158.
    This article has a twofold purpose: first, it explores how Leonardo Polo's personalist anthropology enriches and enhances neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics and second, it highlights how this specific personalist approach brings new perspectives to servant leadership. The recently revived neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics tradition finds that MacIntyre's scholarship significantly contributes to virtue ethics in business—particularly his conception of practices, institutions, and internal/external goods. However, we argue that some of his latest insights about the virtues of acknowledged dependence and human vulnerability remain underdeveloped (...)
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    Avoiding unnecessary suffering: Towards a moral minimum standard for humans' responsibility for animal welfare.Thomas Köllen & Doris Schneeberger - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility (4):1-11.
    Animals are an important part of our social, economic and corporate world. Their wellbeing is significantly affected by the ways in which humans treat them. However, animals have long remained (and, indeed, continue to remain) effectively invisible in the business ethics and corporate responsibility discourse. This article argues in favor of the moral necessity of according animal welfare a higher priority in business. In line with most streams in both recent and traditional animal ethics, this article derives the avoidance of (...)
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    Technology ethics assessment: Politicising the ‘Socratic approach’.Robert Sparrow - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility (2):454-466.
    That technologies may raise ethical issues is now widely recognised. The ‘responsible innovation’ literature – as well as, to a lesser extent, the applied ethics and bioethics literature – has responded to the need for ethical reflection on technologies by developing a number of tools and approaches to facilitate such reflection. Some of these instruments consist of lists of questions that people are encouraged to ask about technologies – a methodology known as the ‘Socratic approach’. However, to date, these instruments (...)
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