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An examination of the 2012–2022 empirical ethical decision-making literature: A quinary review Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jana L. Craft, Kimberly R. Shannon
This review summarizes the empirical ethical decision-making (EDM) research in business published between 2012 and 2022. Utilizing Rest's (Moral development: advances in research and theory, Praeger, New York, 1986) four-step model for EDM and Jones' (Acad Manag Rev, 16(2): 366-395, 1991) theory of moral intensity, 85 articles, resulting in 388 findings, were analyzed. Empirical findings in awareness
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The consequences of dishonesty—A mediation-moderation praxis of greenwashing, tourists' green trust, and word-of-mouth: The role of connectedness to nature Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Nhat Tan Pham, Le Van Huy, Quyen Phu Thi Phan, Hoang Long Phan, Tran Hoang Tuan
The relationship between greenwashing and visitors' green behavior remains an under-researched topic in the tourism and hospitality literature, despite evidence of the harmful effect of greenwashing on the reputation and competitive advantage of organizations. This study extends attribution theory into the green context to develop a research framework for investigating the interrelationship between
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Comparative study of socially responsible consumption measurement in three Latin American countries Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Lida Esperanza Villa-Castaño, Jesús Perdomo-Ortiz, Sebastián Dueñas-Ocampo, William Fernando Durán León
Socially responsible consumption reflects a consumer's political and ethical act. Its measurement is dependent on the socio-economic and cultural context. Consequently, measurement instruments reflecting various behaviour profiles of global consumers have been developed. This study employs a Latin-American-specific measurement instrument to compare socially responsible consumption behaviours in Colombia
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Sustainable supply chain governance: A literature review Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Linh Thuy Nguyen, Rob Zuidwijk
Governance is one of the core concepts underlying sustainable supply chain (SC). Although governance practices are widely acknowledged and implemented, literature discussing those practices is not as thoroughly organized. The purpose of this paper is therefore to investigate the forms, dynamics, and development of sustainable supply chain governance (SSCG). We reviewed a total of 126 articles in operations
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Monetary wisdom: Can yoking religiosity (God) and the love of money (mammon) in performance and humane contexts inspire honesty? The Matthew Effect in Religion Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Yuh-Jia Chen, Velma Lee, Thomas Li-Ping Tang
Religion inspires honesty. The love of money incites dishonesty. Religious and monetary values apply to all religions. We develop a formative theoretical model of monetary wisdom, treat religiosity (God) and the love of money (mammon), as two yoked antecedents—competing moral issues (Time 1), and frame the latent construct in good barrels (performance or humane contexts, Time 2), which leads to (dis)honesty
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Antecedents of electric vehicle purchasing behaviors: Evidence from Türkiye Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Veland Ramadani, Barış Armutcu, Nail Reshidi, Ahmet Tan, Ercan İnce
The present study aims to determine the key antecedents that affect consumers' electric vehicle (EV) purchasing behavior. In this context, the study expanded the existing framework of TPB (attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control) by incorporating four new variables (product attributes, cognitive status, monetary incentive policies, and nonmonetary incentive policies). At this point
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Team ethical culture as a coupling mechanism between a well-implemented organizational ethics program and the prevention of unethical behavior in teams Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Guillem C. Cabana, Muel Kaptein
Many organizations have adopted an organizational ethics program to prevent unethical behavior within the organization. Decoupling the adoption of ethics programs from their implementation has been identified in the literature as an explanation for the ineffectiveness of such programs. In addition to this so-called policy–practice decoupling, means–ends decoupling may also occur when a well-implemented
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Firm's emission reduction effectiveness and the influence of the five institutional dimensions of the quintuple helix model: European evidence Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Carmelo Reverte, Jennifer Martínez-Ferrero, Emma García-Meca
Based upon the quintuple helix model (QHM), this study explores whether the differences in firms' emission reduction effectiveness can be attributed to the five institutional helices related to educational system, economic development, political–legal system, cultural orientation, and the natural capital. Using a set of listed European firms for the 2015–2020 period, we show that firms with better
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Moral licensing effect of work engagement: The role of psychological entitlement and relationship conflict with supervisors Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Lianghua Zhang, Yongli Wang
Given the importance of work engagement for organizations and the almost unified and steadfast understanding of its benefits, it is imperative to investigate the potential downside of work engagement to prevent unexpected damage. However, there has been relatively little research on its negative impacts. Drawing on the moral licensing theory, this study identifies the potential negative effects of
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Fostering circular economy through open innovation: Insights from multiple case study Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Francesco Antonio Perotti, Augusto Bargoni, Paola De Bernardi, Zoltan Rozsa
This study represents an empirical, comprehensive investigation of two different inter-organisational collaborative approaches, offering a novel perspective on collaborative circular business models in the modern economy. In this vein, we explore how open innovation strategies foster the implementation of circular economy practices within a circular supply chain and a circular ecosystem. In addition
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Scaling circular economy business models: A capability perspective Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Aurélien Acquier, Valentina Carbone, Cécile Ezvan
In a context of growing environmental challenges, circular economy (CE) business models appear necessary for business to contribute positively to the ecological transition. While platform business models have been identified as a new and promising model in CE, we still lack a fine-grained understanding of the critical capabilities involved in developing and scaling them. To fill this gap, we build
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Reimagining the sustainable consumer: Why social representations of sustainable consumption matter Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Urša Golob, Klement Podnar, Franzisca Weder
Globally, consumers are increasingly turning to sustainable consumption practices. This article emphasizes the importance of social and cultural context in the study of sustainable consumption, drawing on social representations. It attempts to explain and empirically demonstrate how sustainable consumption is socially represented. The aim of the study was to investigate the construction of representations
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Consultants as discreet corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the outside-in Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Jean-Pascal Gond, Luc Brès, Szilvia Mosonyi
Despite their central role in the construction and development of the market for virtues as well as in the design, implementation, and evaluation of corporate sustainability strategies and governmental sustainability policies, sustainability consultants remain at best “hidden” corporate change agents. In this paper, we bring sustainability consultants back to the fore to account for how these actors
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Stakeholder engagement for sustainable value co-creation: Evidence from made in Italy SMEs Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Michela Matarazzo, Stephen Oduro, Alessandro Gennaro
How Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) engage with stakeholders on their sustainable practices remains an under-researched topic in extant business research. This occurs even though SMEs play a tremendous role across all economies, and they often engage stakeholders on sustainability issues to foster their competitive advantage. In this article, drawing on stakeholder and innovation ecosystem theories
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Emotions, norms, and consequences as the forces of good and evil: An investigation on sales professionals Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Mücahid Yıldırım, Şuayıp Özdemir
Traditionally, the consequences of employees' behavior (teleology) and the norms attributed to the behavior (deontology) have been two familiar determinants of ethical decision making (EDM). More recently, emotions have also gained considerable attention for their ability to affect EDM. Marketing ethics literature overlooks how emotions are related with norms and consequences. Hence, this study investigates
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Socially responsible purchasing (SRP) in the supply chain industry: Meanings and influences Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Titilayo Ogunyemi, Emmanuel Adegbite, Franklin Nakpodia, Kemi Yekini, Angela Ayios
Organisations are increasingly expected to respond to societal and environmental issues within their supply chains. The nuances of this expectation necessitate the consideration of the disparities in corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices within supply chains. Drawing on the stakeholder theory, this paper examines the meanings and influences on socially responsible purchasing (SRP) in supply
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Relationality in transaction cost economics and stakeholder theory: A new conceptual framework Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Vladislav Valentinov, Steffen Roth
Stakeholder scholars have long explored how stakeholder relationships differ from economic transactions. We contribute to this ongoing inquiry by developing a conceptual framework of relationality in stakeholder theory that encompasses a stakeholder-theoretic extension of Williamson's contracting schema and a new typology of stakeholder relationships. Premised on understanding relationality as the
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Measuring machinewashing under the corporate digital responsibility theory: A proposal for a methodological path Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Francesca Bernini, Paola Ferretti, Cristina Gonnella, Fabio La Rosa
Recently, a number of scholars have warned against the risk of a new form of deliberately deceptive communication companies use to assure stakeholders of their good intentions in the adoption and development of digital technologies and advanced information systems based on artificial intelligence. This corporate behaviour, defined as machinewashing, in an attempt to empower engagement processes in
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Global standards and the philosophy of consumption: Toward a consumer-driven governance of global value chains Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Guli-Sanam Karimova, Ludger Heidbrink, Johannes Brinkmann, Stephen Arthur LeMay
This study delves into the significant ethical criteria in the context of global standards. It addresses the moral wrongdoings and adverse side effects associated with global value chains as discussed in the business ethics literature. The methodology involves theoretical application and synthesis. The study employs ethical principles from deontology, consequentialism, and political cosmopolitanism
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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure, earnings management and cash holdings: Evidence from a European context Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Isam Saleh, Malik Abu Afifa, Abdallah Alkhawaja
The primary objective of this research is to examine the potential influence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure on cash holdings. Additionally, the study explores the role of earnings management (EM) practices as a mediating factor in this relationship. The sample comprises 797 companies listed on financial markets across 19 European countries, and the data spans from 2013 to
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Corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the inside out Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 S. Schaltegger, V. Girschik, H. Trittin-Ulbrich, I. Weissbrod, T. Daudigeos
Sustainable development requires sustainability transformations of (so far unsustainable) companies. Sustainability transformations of companies do not happen by themselves but are the result of individuals and groups who purposefully act for sustainability. It is individual managers and employees within an organization—so-called “change agents for sustainability”—who play a vital role in advancing
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Stakeholder engagement disclosures in sustainability reports: Evidence from Italian food companies Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Rubina Michela Galeotti, Mark Anthony Camilleri, Fabiana Roberto, Fabiana Sepe
More businesses are embedding stakeholder engagement (SE) practices in their corporate disclosures. This article explores the extent to which SE practices are featured in the sustainability reports (SRs) of 48 Italian food and beverage businesses, following the latest Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards. The researchers analyze the content of their SRs dated 2020 and 2021. They utilize a panel
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Going green? On the drivers of individuals' green bank adoption Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Maxime Merli, Jessie Pallud, Mariya Pulikova
In a context where individuals are increasingly more sensitive to corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and where mobilization of savings for the energy transition is essential, our article is the first to study the drivers of online green bank adoption. By analyzing 1075 questionnaires from a panel of French individuals in charge of financial decisions in their households, we show that altruism
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What entrepreneurial skillsets support responsible value creation in health and social care? A mixed methods study Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 P. Lehoux, H. P. Silva, J.-L. Denis, S. N. Morioka, N. Harfoush, R. P. Sabio
Although various scholars underscore the importance of innovating responsibly in view of today's societal challenges, less attention has been paid to the entrepreneurial skillset, that is, the range of individual skills and organizational capabilities, that innovation-based organizations mobilize to deliver new responsible products and services. This paper thus explores the relationships between the
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A meta-analysis exploring the relationship between perceived brand ethicality and consumer response Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 M. Geetha, Arun Kumar Kaushik, Jensolin Abithakumari, Preeti R. Gotmare
Recent research highlights the relationship between perceived brand ethicality (PBE), consumer purchase intention, and the consumer–brand relationship. Existing empirical studies offer mixed findings on whether these three relate positively, negatively, or not at all. Moreover, their relationships have not been the primary focus of existing meta-analytic reviews. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis
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Corporate sustainability professionals: The landscape of sustainability job positions Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Barbara Lespinasse-Camargo, João Henrique Paulino Pires Eustachio, Denise Bonifacio, Nayele Macini, Adriana Cristina Ferreira Caldana
Sustainable development requires several stakeholders, including companies, to take action. For this, employees need to have their positions and sustainability roles defined so they can carry out activities. In turn, activities need alignment with corporate policies and strategy. However, the literature lacks discussion about job specifications and which activities relate to sustainability. Therefore
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Destructive managerial anger stemming from self-immanent pride: Is humility a solution? Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Alexandre Anatolievich Bachkirov
The article proposes that managers can counteract and/or prevent the detrimental effects of destructive anger by cultivating the virtue of humility. Traditional psychological conceptualisations of anger are examined, a need for a novel approach to understanding the origins of this emotion is highlighted, and the recently introduced concept of self-immanent pride is reviewed. The first contribution
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Letters to stakeholders: An emerging phenomenon of multi-stakeholder engagement Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Chiara Civera, Damiano Cortese, Sergiy Dmytriyev, R. Edward Freeman
We explore a new phenomenon of multi-stakeholder orientation and engagement in corporate communication: letters to stakeholders. By applying content, semantic, and quantitative analyses to standardized corporate communication among the 100 largest multinational companies worldwide, our study reveals that approximately one-third of the examined companies have begun to utilize what could be considered
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Unlocking sustainable governance: The role of women at the corporate apex Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Maria Cristina Zaccone
This study explores the intra-organizational antecedents of sustainable governance by examining the impact of female presence at the corporate apex. Drawing upon the upper echelon theory, we investigate whether women in top positions influence sustainable governance practices. Our research focuses on a sample of companies operating within two distinct market economies: liberal market economies (LMEs)
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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and idiosyncratic volatility: The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on ESG-sensitive industries Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Jihun Kim, Jongho Kang, Suk Hyun
This study provides an in-depth examination of the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and the idiosyncratic volatility of Korean companies. In line with the risk-mitigation view, the study finds that strong ESG performance is associated with a reduction in a firm's idiosyncratic volatility. The impact of ESG performance on reducing firm volatility was particularly
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Metagovernance forms for enhancing sustainability-oriented innovation in a knowledge ecosystem Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Simona Fiandrino, Melchior Gromis di Trana, Alberto Tonelli, Fabio Rizzato
This study explores how different actors operating in a knowledge ecosystem catalyse sustainability-oriented innovation. Through collaborative practices among actors, knowledge ecosystems constitute a fertile ground for sustainability-oriented innovation to grow and flourish by creating value for businesses and society. The current literature on knowledge ecosystems is lacking in outlining governing
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Measuring greenwashing: A systematic methodological literature review Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Francesca Bernini, Marco Giuliani, Fabio La Rosa
Greenwashing (GW) is a complex, dynamic, interdisciplinary, multidimensional, and multifaceted phenomenon. There are more theoretical than empirical studies on GW because of several difficulties in collecting accurate data and obtaining objective GW measures. After disentangling the multifaceted GW phenomenon by describing its main dimensions, this study provides a systematic methodological literature
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Companies' ethical certification and their attractiveness to institutional investors: An intermediate signaling perspective Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Ahmad K. Ismail, Dima Jamali, Samer Khalil, Assem Safieddine, Georges Samara
Our research investigates how the inclusion of a company on an independent ethics index affects its attractiveness to institutional investors. Using a sample of 864 U.S. firms over the 2010–2018 period, we find that institutional investors significantly increase their holdings in companies in the quarter that they are included on the ethics index and maintain larger holdings in the four quarters following
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A thematic analysis of code of ethics disclosures in SEC 8-K Item 5.05 Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Charles P. Cullinan, Richard Holowczak, David Louton, Hakan Saraoglu
The Securities and Exchange Commission requires the disclosure of changes to or waivers of corporate codes of ethics. Because the nature of amendments or waivers can vary, we expect the text of Item 5.05 to include different topics within different filings. We examine the population of these disclosures in Item 5.05 8-K filings from 2004 to 2020. While previous studies utilized small samples (fewer
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What you see is what you get? Building confidence in ESG disclosures for sustainable finance through external assurance Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Olivier Boiral, Marie-Christine Brotherton, David Talbot
The main objective of this study is to understand the value of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure assurance in the context of the development of sustainable finance standards and laws. This study is based on an analysis of 188 comment letters submitted by such actors in the context of public consultations on the development of three new sustainable finance initiatives (the CFA Institute
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Competencies for sustainability: Insights from the encyclical letter Laudato Si Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Cristina Díaz de la Cruz, Rubén Eduardo Polo Valdivieso
This study offers a proposal about which competencies should be fostered in organizations to promote a culture in favor of sustainability in line with Pope Francis' encyclical letter Laudato Si. As a result, seven main competencies are proposed, with their interpretation in the light of the encyclical letter, and some suggestions on how to implement them in organizations are presented. The competencies
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Microaggressions, cancel culture, safe spaces, and academic freedom: A private property rights argumentation Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Philipp Bagus, Frank Daumann, Florian Follert
Science is critical and thrives on discourse. However, new challenges for science and academic freedom have arisen from an often-discussed cancel culture and an increasing demand for safe spaces, which are justified by their assumed protection against microaggressions. These phenomena can impede scientific progress and innovation by prohibiting certain thought processes and heterodox ideas that eventually
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The power of ethical words Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Mercedes Alda, Fernando Muñoz, María Vargas
In this research, we analyse the impact of the inclusion of ethical expressions in the prospectuses of socially responsible (SR) mutual funds on money flows. We contribute to the existing literature by proposing a text-based measure that integrates three attributes that are relevant to whether clients are attracted: exclusiveness, intensity and lexical diversity. We analyse a sample formed of 266 SR
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Watch me invest: Does CEO narcissism affect green innovation? CEO personality traits and eco-innovation Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Imen Khanchel, Naima Lassoued, Cyrine Khiari
This study explores an important yet understudied relationship between CEO narcissism and green innovation, both separately and when moderated by CEO demographic traits (international experience and age). We analyzed a sample of 206 U.S.-listed firms on the S&P 500 over a 10-year period. Our initial findings indicate a negative association between CEO narcissism and green innovation. However, further
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The role of purchasing and supply management in diffusing sustainability in supply networks: A systematic literature review Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Toloue Miandar, Thomas E. Johnsen, Federico Caniato
One of the most difficult supply network challenges facing companies today is how to diffuse sustainability not only among their direct (first-tier) suppliers but also throughout their supply networks. Although a growing body of research has been dedicated to addressing this challenge, the role of purchasing and supply management (PSM) in sustainable supply network development remains underexplored
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How open innovation specialists contribute to corporate sustainability and responsibility: A latent Dirichlet allocation approach Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Francesca Culasso, Elisa Giacosa, Daniele Giordino, Edoardo Crocco
This study examines the job postings for open innovation (OI) specialists to determine a universal archetype of what competencies and tasks are requested from said professionals and their implications for corporate sustainability and responsibility. This research uses Bayesian statistics and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling to measure multiple dimensions of the 341 sampled job postings
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Family firm entrepreneurship and sustainability initiatives: Women as corporate change agents Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Ada Domańska, Remedios Hernández-Linares, Robert Zajkowski, Beata Żukowska
Family businesses are often seen as key players in efforts to increase sustainability due to their transgenerational focus. Researchers have reported that companies strengthen their commitment to sustainability as they consolidate their entrepreneurial commitment, but the existing knowledge about drivers of family firms' sustainability choices is limited. This study sought to fill related research
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Corporate power and democracy: A business ethical reflection and research agenda Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Christian Martin Kroll, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Corporations significantly influence the public and political spheres. In light of this corporate power in society, academics have criticized the lack of legitimization (i.e., the legitimacy gap) and highlighted a potential divergence between corporate resource allocation and the needs and preferences of the public (i.e., the social issues gap). To address these problems, democratizing organizations
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Are emotions essential for consumer ethical decision-making: A Necessary Condition Analysis Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Marco Escadas, Marjan S. Jalali, Felix Septianto, Minoo Farhangmehr
This research examines the necessary condition of emotions in predicting consumer ethical decision-making, using a new multiplicative method for identifying and measuring the necessary condition in data sets—Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA). Based on a sample of over four hundred individuals, and combining three different consumption scenarios involving ethical issues, our findings demonstrate that
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Engaging marginal stakeholders on social networking sites. A cross-country exploratory analysis among Generation Z consumers Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Marco Valerio Rossi, Pasquale Sasso, Andrea Perna, Ludovico Solima
This research explores the marginal stakeholder engagement and propensity to value cocreation in the fast-fashion industry by taking Generation Z consumers (GZCs) as observation unit and social networking sites (SNSs) as context of investigation. By undertaking 24 in-depth interviews with US and Italian GZCs, the study uncovers the main elements that influence their engagement generation on SNSs and
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The impact of corporate environmental management practices on environmental performance Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Omaima A. G. Hassan, Peter Romilly, Iqbal Khadaroo
This study draws on neo-institutional theory to examine how and why corporate environmental management practices might affect environmental performance. It contributes to the literature by using a large, global data set to investigate the impact of 10 corporate environmental management practices on greenhouse gas emissions or emissions intensity. It focuses on greenhouse gas emissions which pose an
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Study on the impact of corporate social responsibility on carbon performance in the background of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Bin Meng, Qiao Zang, Guorong Li
In the context of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality,” companies are responsible for actively reducing carbon emissions and achieving a balance among economic, environmental, and social benefits. From a non-economic perspective, this study chose a sample of 9872 A-share manufacturing companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 2010 to 2019. This study used the fixed-effect
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Communication aimed at engendering trustworthiness: An analysis of CSR messages on Twitter Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Ewelina Zarzycka, Joanna Krasodomska, Dorota Dobija, Wojciech Grabowski, Dariusz Jemielniak
A growing body of research is exploring corporate communication in relation to corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities on social media (SM). Nonetheless, while these studies have shown that SM communication may be an effective tool for reaching and engaging various stakeholders, how the design of corporate CSR communication engenders trustworthiness has yet to be examined. To address this
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Market reactions to the Business Roundtable August 19, 2019 announcement on the Purpose of a Corporation Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Jay Janney, Malika Chaudhuri
The Business Roundtable's “Purpose of a Corporation” letter announced a shift from stockholder primacy to stakeholder primacy. Interestingly, we contend the letter's language employed a technical efficiency emphasis, suggesting a firm's executives chose to make this shift because they believed doing so would improve the firm's financial performance, via improved corporate governance. We examine whether
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Testing four nudges in socially responsible investments: Default winner by inertia Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Luc Meunier, Sophie Richit
Socially responsible investments (SRI) suffer from a lack of investments from individual investors, despite their positive attitudes toward SRI. This attitude–behavior gap is a serious issue, as SRI is often perceived as a way to promote sustainable development. We investigate nudges, especially the default option, as a way to encourage SRI. In a pre-registered study conducted in October 2021 with
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Creating shared value through open innovation: Insights from the case of Enel industrial plants Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Gianluca Gionfriddo, Andrea Mario Cuore Piccaluga
Despite the significant attention gained by the concept of creating shared value (CSV) over the past decade, there is a lack of empirical research on corporate practices that achieve social and environmental benefits through CSV dynamics. Through an in-depth single case study, this research explores open innovation (OI) practices contributing to the grand challenge of climate change and their role
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Impact investing: Scientometric review and research agenda Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Monica Singhania, Deepika Swami
Innovations in aligning investment with sustainability led to impact investing, enabling investors to achieve conventional financial returns and measurable social and environmental returns. Since its inception in 2007, it has grown manifolds, with significant efforts being made to create a global ecosystem. However, due to limited academic literature, the theme is yet to garner the scholarly interest
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Putting entrepreneurship in corporate change agency: A typology of social intrapreneurs Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Anne-Cathrin Darcis, Rüdiger Hahn, Elisa Alt
Social intrapreneurs can help corporations to address grand challenges and create hybrid value—that is simultaneous commercial and social value—by identifying and exploring entrepreneurial opportunities that address social or environmental issues. However, we still know little about how individuals assume social intrapreneurial roles in corporations. Based on a qualitative study of social intrapreneurs
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Shareholder activism in listed family firms: Exploring the effectiveness of say-on-pay on CEO compensation Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Gregorio Sánchez-Marín, Gabriel Lozano-Reina, J. Samuel Baixauli-Soler
The widespread critical evidence surrounding executive compensation of listed corporations has boosted shareholder activism in recent decades. The say-on-pay (SOP) mechanism—a vote in which shareholders express their (dis)agreement with executive pay designs—is one of the corporate governance mechanisms that has led to this activism among listed firms. Merging agency and socioemotional wealth (SEW)
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Can organizations get away with greenwashing? CSR attributions and counterproductive sustainability behaviors Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Ifzal Ahmad, Dima Rachid Jamali, Muhammad Nisar Khattak
Over the past couple of decades, research on the perks of corporate social responsibility has reported that it is a source of competitive advantage and can increase the bottom-line performance of the organization. However, a somewhat small proportion of this research is focused on the ‘greenwash’ side, which posits that not all CSR would lead to positive impacts. By extending this line of research
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Diversified boards and the achievement of environmental, social, and governance goals Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Asma Alawadi, Nada Kakabadse, Michael Morley, Nadeem Khan
We explore the impact of board resources arising from diverse board members on the achievement of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. Employing resource dependence theory as our frame and drawing on qualitative data from 41 interviews with board directors of publicly traded and privately held companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), we identify three key mechanisms underpinning the
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A thorough examination of organizations from an ethical viewpoint: A bibliometric and content analysis of organizational virtuousness studies Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Richa Goyal, Himani Sharma, Aarti Sharma
The study comprehensively reviews previous research work in the domain of ‘Organizational Virtuousness’ (OV) using bibliometric and content analysis. It aims to provide insights into what is known about the field and where future research should be directed. As many as 193 published research articles during the last two decades (2004–2022) were retrieved from the Scopus database. These articles were
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Understanding the link between subsidiary CEOs and corporate social responsibility in emerging markets: Moderating role of social capital Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Alberto Ferraris, Ismail Golgeci, Ahmad Arslan, Gabriele Santoro
This paper analyzes the interlink among managerial experience, capabilities, and social capital in relation to corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of multinational enterprises' (MNEs) subsidiaries in an emerging market context. Based on the empirical sample of 104 subsidiaries of 28 Italian MNEs operating in India, we found that CEO managerial capabilities are positively associated with
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Ethics of mortgage advisers in the Netherlands: Professional attitudes and moral dilemmas Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Jelle van Baardewijk
Since 2013, mortgage advisory has become an independent profession in the Netherlands. Initially working for mortgage providers, the newly nonpartisan advisers now work for standard advisory fees, thereby reducing conflicts of interest. In this article, I provide an ethical analysis of the different types of ethos of mortgage advisers, that is, the ways they see and talk about, and relate to their
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Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility: Taking stock and looking forward Business Ethics: A European Review (IF 5.056) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Ralf Barkemeyer, Martina Linnenluecke, Stefan Markovic, Georges Samara
In this editorial, we would like to share recent developments at BEER with our community and discuss some journal performance metrics, not least in the light of the recent 2022 Clarivate Impact Factor announcement. We would also like to share some further improvement initiatives, including calls for Associate Editors & Editorial Review Board Members. But, before that, we would like to start with some