JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS商业伦理杂志
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS(英文缩写 J BUS ETHICS),ISSN 0167-4544,eISSN 1573-0697,中文译名:商业伦理杂志 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-11-01 至 2026-10-31，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
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| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
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| 2021 | 6.331 | Q1 |
| 2022 | 6.100 | Q1 |
| 2023 | 5.900 | Q1 |
| 2024 | 6.700 | Q1 |
| 2025 | 6.300 | Q1 |
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS 最新收录文献
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1. "If I Accomplish Nothing Else but Hope, That Will be Enough": The Ethics and Morality of Market-Based Hope in Illness Entrepreneurship.
PMID:日期:2026-01-06How do entrepreneurs embody and enact hope as a motor for ethical agency-agency that builds one's own and others' capacities and capabilities to overcome a painful present? This study puts hope at the center of theorizing around the activities of entrepreneurs who leverage it both as a way to sketch a new life for themselves and to sell it to others. Through the case of illness entrepreneurs-recovery coaches for those suffering from chronic illnesses-we observe the moral struggles involved when hope becomes framed within the logic of the market. Recovery coaches at once embody hope (as formerly sick people who have recovered), neatly package and sell it (as entrepreneurs), and manifest it (opening up new spaces of possibility for themselves). The work involved in balancing these threads requires constant realignment of the entrepreneurs' own hopes for a new life and their care for others. We show how, through these moral struggles, hope opens up new spaces of possibility and imbues people-both entrepreneurs and their clients-with the agency to move toward those new horizons. Conceptualizing the complex entanglements of hope, care, and ethical agency, our study represents a foray into recent calls for assembling and theorizing the 'architecture of hope' in organization and entrepreneurship studies. We also discuss whether this entrepreneurship, balancing hope and care to enable ethical agency, opens up new ways of understanding morality and agency in market contexts.
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2. Re-enchanting Consumer Ethics Through Embodied Relationality: An Ethnographic Approach to the Attitude-Behaviour Gap.
2. 通过具身关系性重新赋予消费者伦理以魅力：应对态度-行为差距的民族志方法PMID:日期:2025-12-16[中文摘要] 关于“态度—行为差距”的多数研究采用线性、理性化和个体化的模型，或强调消费者不确定性与困惑的概念。我们认为，争论的不同脉络均可受益于对塑造消费者伦理之过程的探讨，即承认一切消费体验所具有的深刻的具身性与相互依存性。因此，本文旨在探讨日常伦理消费的具身关系性面向，并为“态度—行为差距”提供新的阐释。我们通过引入实践理论中的具身性，并借助对英格兰东北部六个家庭开展的民族志研究（包括观察、访谈、厨房导览与步行导览以及参与者日记）来实现这一目标。我们的研究发现凸显了四种具身关系性实践：。本文通过提供作为理论框架以可视化消费者在日常实践中所经历的复杂矛盾具身状态，为现有文献作出贡献。我们借此重新思考“态度—行为差距”，将其视为一种，即脱离了一切社会行动的具身本质，因而其解释潜力有限。本文最后概述了未来研究与干预路径，以推动消费者伦理研究，即重新将其与其具身性和关系性本质相连接。
[英文摘要] Most research on the 'attitude-behaviour gap' adopts linear, rational, and individual models, or highlights notions of consumer uncertainty and confusion. We argue that different strands of the debate can benefit from an exploration of processes shaping consumer ethics, namely an acknowledgement of the profound corporeal and interdependent nature of all consumption experiences. The aim of this paper is thus to explore the embodied relational aspects of everyday ethical consumption and cast new light on the 'attitude-behaviour gap'. We do so by drawing on embodiment in practice theories and through an ethnographic study with six families in North-East England, including observations, interviews, kitchen and walking-with tours, and participants' diaries. Our findings highlight four embodied relational practices: . The paper contributes to the existing literature by offering as a theoretical framework to visualise the complex ambivalent embodied state consumers experience in everyday practices We leverage this to rethink the 'attitude-behaviour gap' as a , namely detached from the embodied nature of all social action and, as such, limited in its explanatory potential. We conclude the paper by outlining future research and intervention avenues to consumer ethics scholarship, namely reconnect it with its embodied and relational nature.
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3. There Is No Quick Fix: Compliance Officers' Views on Organizational Behavioral Change.
PMID:日期:2025-10-22Major scandals show the damage that organizational misconduct can do to society. Compliance officers play a crucial role in mitigating organizational misconduct. There is extensive empirical research on how such misconduct can effectively be prevented. However, little is known about compliance officers' experiential knowledge and how this aligns with these scientific findings. Based on semi-structured interviews with compliance officers, this paper analyzes their experiential knowledge and its alignment with empirical research on a conceptual level and, moreover, on a substantive level by zooming in on two concepts: first, role modeling and leadership, and second, sanctions. It shows that none of the interviewed compliance officers believed in a quick fix for compliance: all identified a combination of concepts at play in mitigating misconduct. The alignment on a conceptual level was broad as there was much overlap between the concepts distinguished by compliance officers and concepts studied in empirical research. The alignment on a substantive level was more superficial, however. Compliance officers only minimally elaborated on how they thought the concepts they identified may affect behavior. This has received more attention in empirical research. These insights provide a first understanding of what compliance officers believe are proper methods to mitigate organizational misconduct and how their ideas align with social scientific findings.
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4. Corporate Purpose and Democratic Theory: A Governance Trilemma.
PMID:日期:2025-09-12Over the last years, both in the popular press, policy and business circles and in academia, people call for corporations to orient their behavior towards 'purpose'. This is meant as a move away from shareholder value maximization as the lodestar for corporate action. But purpose-advocates are torn between two directions in thinking about corporate governance: towards corporate governance on behalf of stakeholders by an board, and towards corporate governance by stakeholders through a board. The paper's aim is to enlighten this choice by placing it in a trilemma with a third option: corporate governance on behalf of shareholders. This corporate governance trilemma shows us which trade-offs are at stake in making choices between the relevant values: the minimization of externalities, collective decision-making costs and agency costs. It discusses the various trade-offs in the trilemma. Finally, the paper argues that corporate purpose is best served by a balance between board independence and responsiveness.
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5. Cosmopolitanism as an Aspirational Identity: When Normative Ideals Give Rise to Identity Struggles.
PMID:日期:2025-08-04While cosmopolitanism is often celebrated for its contemporary ideals of openness toward people from different cultural backgrounds, this paper reveals how and why these same ideals can generate tensions and identity struggles when rigidly applied in everyday cross-cultural encounters. Based on 32 life story interviews with globally mobile professionals who have worked and lived extensively across different countries, we observed and analyzed how these professionals pursued aspirational identity projects aligned with normative ideals of cosmopolitan 'being' ('thinking globally'), 'doing' ('integrating locally'), and 'becoming' ('transforming the self'), when interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds than their own. In their everyday local encounters, this pursuit of cosmopolitan ideals also produced adverse effects: participants experienced resistance to their global mindset, rejections of their integration attempts, and deflections on their path toward self-improvement. These adverse effects created tensions which we theorize as three types of identity struggles: (a) showing tolerance toward intolerance; (b) enduring discrimination in order to fit in; and (c) denying one's aspired self-image to match the perception of others. We argue that these identity struggles reveal the limitations of aspirational cosmopolitan identity projects that adhere too strictly to normative ideals, as rigid moral scripts around 'openness toward the other' can (somewhat paradoxically) restrict the agency of global professionals in their everyday encounters with cultural others. By drawing attention to this limited agency-and the vulnerability it can produce-this paper contributes a new perspective to the literatures on aspirational identities, cosmopolitan identities, and everyday cosmopolitanism, aiming to help bridge the gap in theory and practice between moral principles and lived cross-cultural encounters.
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6. Beyond Common Ground: Dialogical Responsibility in Sustainable Human Resource Management.
6. 超越共识：可持续人力资源管理中的对话责任PMID:日期:2025-07-31Sustainable human resource management (HRM) advocates a shift toward pluralism, emphasizing the legitimacy of multiple stakeholder interests, voices, and meanings. Intended dialogue is often promoted as a key practice to support this shift. However, how intended dialogue actually contributes to pluralism remains under-theorized. Moreover, dialogue is frequently idealized as a route to harmony or 'common ground,' which can obscure power dynamics, silence dissent, and suppress difference. Building on dialogical ethics and framing theory, this conceptual paper introduces the model, which reconceptualizes intended dialogue not as consensus-seeking but as a reflective space for exploring irreducible differences. Drawing on dialogue theorists such as Buber, Levinas, and Bakhtin, dialogical responsibility is proposed as an ethical form of 'thirdness'-a mediating presence in the leader-worker dyad that invites participants to remain open to the other, question their own frames, and attend to asymmetries in voice and power. To support this stance, the IDR model employs framing theory to distinguish between micro-level situated frames (e.g., issue and relationship frames), meso-level strategic frames, and macro-level institutional frames. Dialogue is thus understood as a dynamic, ongoing, and reflexive process-occurring within and beyond episodic conversations-where meanings are co-constructed and contested over time. This paper contributes to sustainable HRM literature by offering a multilevel theoretical model and sensitizing questions to support ethically responsive dialogue. It provides a conceptual foundation for navigating pluralism and fostering dialogical spaces in complex organizational contexts.
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7. Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity.
PMID:日期:2025-03-11Achieving sex-based equity in organizational leadership roles has proven to be a 'wicked' problem with existing diversity initiatives providing minimal improvement. In this paper, we address this issue by considering a key inhibiter to women's leadership advancement-biased perceptions of female leaders' competence-and links to a climate for inclusion. In Study 1 ( = 236), we develop and validate a Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership (DSEL) measure, and demonstrate its value in predicting perceptions of female leaders' competence when compared to alternative leadership models (empowering leadership, transformational leadership, diversity-specific transformational leadership, transactional leadership, leader diversity-valuing behavior, and inclusive leadership). In Study 2 ( = 314), we introduce sex-based diversity beliefs as a moderator in the relationship between DSEL and perceptions of female leaders' competence. In Study 3 ( = 313), we provide support for a mediated moderation model, with sex-based diversity beliefs moderating the effects of DSEL on perceptions of female leaders' competence. In turn, this is associated with a climate for inclusion. DSEL is collaborative and developmentally focused, and our findings suggest it may attenuate sex-based biases in perceptions of leadership, especially for those who have been most resistant to change (i.e., individuals with negative sex-based diversity beliefs). Our research offers theory that can support ethical action by advancing DSEL as a promising 'target-specific' leadership model for creating less biased and more inclusive work environments for all.
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8. "A Sane Island in an Ocean of Madness": A Case of Alternative Organisational Ethics Through Post-Growth Values.
PMID:日期:2025-01-09Unprecedented runaway climate change and ecological degradation is argued to be caused by the dominant capitalist mode of production's reliance on endless economic growth and capital accumulation. Businesses and organisations are expected to act in an ecologically and socially ethical way to help avert the crisis. Yet, there has arguably been little progress in this direction. The conventional ethical frameworks are generally subsumed under capitalism's reliance on growth that effectively delegate business ethics to a peripheral and, often, contradictory pursuit, insufficient to influence ecologically and socially sustainable business conduct. We therefore explore an alternative approach by operationalising business ethics through organisational values from a post-growth perspective. By analysing the case of a social cooperative, we highlight how post-growth organisational values emerge through the organisation's history, the members' experience, and active contrasting to the dominant capitalist value systems. We contribute to business ethics scholarship by highlighting the potential of post-growth organisational ethics and values in creating contrasts to the dominant capitalist values. Our research further contributes to sustainability scholarship, particularly post-growth perspectives, by highlighting that organising through post-growth values in contrast to the dominant economic system is not only possible, but essential to achieve sustainability. Ultimately, our research illustrates the need for political engagement in upholding organisational ethics, in the face of the ecological crisis.
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9. Corporate Weakness of Will.
9. 公司意志薄弱PMID:日期:2024-08-27Proponents of corporate moral responsibility take certain corporations to be capable of being responsible in ways that do not reduce to the responsibility of their members. If correct, one follow-up question concerns what leads corporations to fail to meet their obligations. We often fail morally when we know what we should do and yet fail to do it, perhaps out of incontinence, akrasia, or weakness of will. However, this kind of failure is much less discussed in the corporate case. And, where it is discussed, the view is that corporations are less prone to weakness. Here, I argue that proponents of corporate responsibility should say that corporations can and often do instantiate weakness of the will, and that this is important to recognize. Weakness of the will requires certain capacities that these proponents typically take corporations to have. And once this is appreciated, we can assess how corporate weakness might proceed differently than how it does for individuals. We can also begin a conversation about how best to meet the distinctive challenges for recognizing and correcting corporate weakness, using a number of resources from management scholarship.
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10. Consumer Disposition Toward Fairness in Agri-Food Chains (FAIRFOOD): Scale Development and Validation.
10. 消费者对农食链公平的态度（FAIRFOOD）：量表开发与验证PMID:日期:2024-07-19Fairness in agri-food supply chains receives increasing consumer, industry, and political attention but is currently under-conceptualized and lacks appropriate frameworks for measurement. Therefore, building on a theoretically grounded conceptualization of consumer dispositions toward fairness in agri-food supply chains, we developed and validated a 14-item fairness measurement scale (FAIRFOOD). The scale comprises of four dimensions (economic, environmental, social, and informational) which are manifestations of the same construct (higher-order structure). We empirically validate the scale and its reliability using four studies and eight independent samples from Italy ( = 1386) and the UK ( = 1379). The findings reveal that FAIRFOOD is related, yet distinct from theoretically relevant constructs such as ethical consumption and pro-environment behavior. The FAIRFOOD scale is a strong predictor of outcomes such as willingness to purchase Fairtrade certified products, as well as boycott and negative Word of Mouth intentions if a brand treats other supply chain actors unfairly. Regarding business strategy, rather than focusing on one dimension of fairness independently, managers should adopt a holistic approach, devising initiatives that address all four dimensions in tandem. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10551-024-05756-2.