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Open Access 20.04.2024 | Original Paper

CEO Religion and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Socio-behavioral Model

Studies linking religion to CSR have produced conflicting findings due to a failure to draw distinctions among religious influences and different CSR practices, and to theorize their connection. Drawing on social identity theory and the theory of …

verfasst von:
Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Danny Miller, Zhenyang Tang, Xiaowei Xu

19.04.2024 | Original Paper

Marketing to Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Consumers in an Emerging Market: The Responses of Mainstream Consumers

Many companies are now targeting the sizeable segment of consumers in Bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) markets with new products to specifically address their needs. As mainstream consumers become aware of these initiatives, their views on what …

verfasst von:
Reetika Gupta, Deepa Chandrasekaran, Sankar Sen, Tanvi Gupta

17.04.2024 | Original Paper

Ethics of Care and Employees: The Impact of Female Board Representation and Top Management Leadership on Human Capital Development Policies

While scholarly research on the relationship between female board representation and strategic decision-making has gained momentum, employee policy outcomes have remained relatively understudied. Integrating theory from the ethics of care …

verfasst von:
Conor Callahan, Arjun Mitra, Steve Sauerwald

Open Access 16.04.2024 | Original Paper

Participation Strategies and Ethical Considerations in NGO Led Community-Based Conservation Initiatives

This study examines the participation strategies of an environmental non-governmental organization (NGO) in community-based conservation (CBC) initiatives in the developing country context of Pakistan. We use local Pakistani concepts and terms to …

verfasst von:
Chaudhry Ghafran, Sofia Yasmin

16.04.2024 | Original Paper

Doing Good and Doing Well? CSR Climate as a Driver of Team Empowerment and Team Performance

The establishment or nurturing of a supportive organizational climate encompasses various activities rooted in ethical commitments. This study focuses on the outcome of these activities, exploring how team members’ collective interpretation and …

verfasst von:
Tom Kluijtmans, Kenn Meyfroodt, Saskia Crucke

15.04.2024 | Original Paper

Narcissism Dynamics and Auditor Skepticism

The process by which auditors consider fraud risk in assessing management’s motivation and character remains under-addressed. This is problematic given the rising tide of narcissism, as well as recent research documenting that both self- and …

verfasst von:
Steven E. Kaszak, Eric N. Johnson, Philip M. J. Reckers, Alan Reinstein

15.04.2024 | Original Paper

Energizing Ethical Recycling Intention Through Information Publicity: Insights from an Emerging Market  Economy

Plastic consumption is an important aspect of contemporary living, and studies that systematically examine consumers’ plastic waste recycling intentions from an ethical perspective are scarce. Considering the severity of plastic waste recycling …

verfasst von:
Khalid Mehmood, Yaser Iftikhar, Fauzia Jabeen, Ali Nawaz Khan, Hina Rehman

15.04.2024 | Original Paper

Enduring, Strategizing, and Rising Above: Workplace Dignity Threats and Responses Across Job Levels

Despite a growing body of literature focused on understanding experiences of workplace dignity, attention has centered almost exclusively on employees with lower-level jobs. As a result, little is known about how workplace dignity and indignity …

verfasst von:
Jacqueline Tilton, Kristen Lucas, Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart, Justin K. Kent

14.04.2024 | Original Paper

Bringing Ethical Consumption to the Forefront in Emerging Markets: The Role of Product Categorization

Emerging markets are a growing force, and the resulting increase in wealth—especially among the middle class—promotes conspicuous consumption with potentially negative impacts for societal and environmental well-being. Efforts to encourage ethical …

verfasst von:
Ali Besharat, Gia Nardini, Rhiannon MacDonnell Mesler

12.04.2024 | Original Paper

Import Penetration and Corporate Misconduct: A Natural Experiment

Corporate misconduct receives significant attention in the business ethics literature. This paper studies how corporate misconduct is impacted by import penetration from China, which is largely exogenous to the U.S. product market. Using this …

verfasst von:
Christopher Dupuis, Ying Zheng

11.04.2024 | Original Paper

Are We Becoming More Ethical Consumers During the Global Pandemic? The Moderating Role of Negotiable Fate Across Cultures

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis which has witnessed consumers experiencing significant anxiety provoked by the threats to their health and even lives. Meanwhile, consumers have been observed to make more ethical purchases since the start …

verfasst von:
Junjun Cheng, Yimin Huang, Bo Chen

Open Access 10.04.2024 | Original Paper

Are Companies Offloading Risk onto Employees in Times of Uncertainty? Insights from Corporate Pension Plans

We investigate how firms adjust corporate pension plans in response to economic policy uncertainty (EPU). Using a sample of US-listed firms, we find that firms increase pension underfunding levels when facing higher EPU. The result is robust to …

verfasst von:
Douglas Cumming, Fanyu Lu, Limin Xu, Chia-Feng (Jeffrey) Yu

08.04.2024 | Original Paper

A Moral Evaluation of LBOs

This study conducts a moral analysis of leverage buyouts (LBOs) and relies on the holistic framework of the Triple Font Theory. It shows that the claims made by standard agency theory have not been successful both for the purchased firms and for …

verfasst von:
Aurélien Philippot

Open Access 08.04.2024 | Original Paper

The Influence of Religious Identification on Strategic Green Marketing Orientation

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a critical role in the green economy due to their significant environmental footprint. Because more than 84% of the world’s population identifies with a religion, most SME top-executives are likely to …

verfasst von:
Riza Casidy, Denni Arli, Lay Peng Tan

04.04.2024 | Original Paper

The Experience and Implications of Meaningless Work in the Public Sector

Research suggests that the experience of meaningless work is prevalent in various occupations, and that it is destructive for organizations and individuals, making this an issue of major ethical importance. In this paper, we present the results of …

verfasst von:
Christopher Belanger, Samia Chreim, Silvia Bonaccio

Open Access 04.04.2024 | Original Paper

“Be Not Conformed to this World”: MacIntyre’s Critique of Modernity and Amish Business Ethics

This paper draws on MacIntyre’s ethical thought to illuminate a hitherto underexplored religious context for business ethics, that of the Amish. It draws on an empirical study of Amish settlements in Holmes County, Ohio, and aims to deepen our …

verfasst von:
Sunny Jeong, Matthew Sinnicks, Nicholas Burton, Mai Chi Vu

Open Access 02.04.2024 | Original Paper

The Temporal Structuring of Corporate Sustainability

Research on corporate sustainability has started to acknowledge the role of temporality in creating more sustainable organizations. Yet, these advances tend to treat firms as monolithic and we have little understanding of how different temporal …

verfasst von:
Sébastien Mena, Simon Parker

02.04.2024 | Original Paper

To Buy or Not to Buy? Exploring Ethical Consumerism in an Emerging Market—India

This article reports the findings of a field study conducted on the purchasing intentions of ethical consumers in India. We explored how the involvement of ethical consumers with social networking sites (SNSs such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram …

verfasst von:
Sunanda Nayak, Vijay Pereira, Bahar Ali Kazmi, Pawan Budhwar

Open Access 30.03.2024 | Original Paper

Personality Discrimination and the Wrongness of Hiring Based on Extraversion

Employers sometimes use personality tests in hiring or specifically look for candidates with certain personality traits such as being social, outgoing, active, and extraverted. Therefore, they hire based on personality, specifically extraversion …

verfasst von:
Joona Räsänen, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

Open Access 29.03.2024 | Original Paper

Structures Supporting Virtuous Moral Agency: An Empirical Enquiry

It has been argued that organizational structures (the way tasks are defined, allocated, and coordinated) can influence moral agency in organizations. In particular, low values on different structural parameters (functional concentration …

verfasst von:
Dirk Vriens, Riki A. M. de Wit, Claudia Gross