Pub Date : 2024-06-10DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05736-6
Melrona Kirrane, Adeela Farqan, Emer Cloak
{"title":"Exploring a paradox: Psychopathy, Morality and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour","authors":"Melrona Kirrane, Adeela Farqan, Emer Cloak","doi":"10.1007/s10551-024-05736-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05736-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15279,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Ethics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141365142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-08DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05739-3
Francesca Collevecchio, Valerio Temperini, Virginia Barba-Sanchez, Ángel Meseguer-Martínez
{"title":"Sustainable Governance: Board Sustainability Experience and the Interplay with Board Age for Firm Sustainability","authors":"Francesca Collevecchio, Valerio Temperini, Virginia Barba-Sanchez, Ángel Meseguer-Martínez","doi":"10.1007/s10551-024-05739-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05739-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15279,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Ethics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141369578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05692-1
M. F. de la Cruz Jara, Jelena Spanjol
{"title":"Understanding Multiple Perspectives on Social Value in Business: An Integrative Review and Typology","authors":"M. F. de la Cruz Jara, Jelena Spanjol","doi":"10.1007/s10551-024-05692-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05692-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15279,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Ethics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141374727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05737-5
M. D. del Rio, Roy Suddaby
{"title":"Organizing the Good Death: Ethics and Values-Work in the Sower Hospice","authors":"M. D. del Rio, Roy Suddaby","doi":"10.1007/s10551-024-05737-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05737-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15279,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Ethics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141371343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05726-8
Tsedale M. Melaku
{"title":"The Inclusion Tax: The Price of the Ticket in White Spaces","authors":"Tsedale M. Melaku","doi":"10.1007/s10551-024-05726-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05726-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15279,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Ethics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141375715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-06DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05740-w
Jared Eutsler, Steven Kaszak
{"title":"Mission Statements of Public Accounting Firms: Antecedents and Consequences of Professional Vs. Commercial Orientations","authors":"Jared Eutsler, Steven Kaszak","doi":"10.1007/s10551-024-05740-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05740-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15279,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Ethics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141377203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05733-9
Qian Lu, Guoguang Wan, Liang Xu
This study explored how the nature of CEOs’ human capital affects the scope of their firms’ corporate social responsibility initiatives. By integrating upper echelons theory with the attention-based view of the firm, the analyses showed that generalist CEOs with a broader range of knowledge and skills tend to aim their firms’ corporate social responsibility efforts toward a broader range of responsibility domains than do specialist CEOs with a narrower range of knowledge and skills. The difference is weaker when a firm’s board has a sustainability committee or when industry peers are active in a broad range of corporate social responsibility domains. These findings are supported by data on S&P 1500 firms spanning 2000 to 2018.
{"title":"Generalist Versus Specialist CEOs and the Scope of Corporate Social Responsibility","authors":"Qian Lu, Guoguang Wan, Liang Xu","doi":"10.1007/s10551-024-05733-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05733-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explored how the nature of CEOs’ human capital affects the scope of their firms’ corporate social responsibility initiatives. By integrating upper echelons theory with the attention-based view of the firm, the analyses showed that generalist CEOs with a broader range of knowledge and skills tend to aim their firms’ corporate social responsibility efforts toward a broader range of responsibility domains than do specialist CEOs with a narrower range of knowledge and skills. The difference is weaker when a firm’s board has a sustainability committee or when industry peers are active in a broad range of corporate social responsibility domains. These findings are supported by data on S&P 1500 firms spanning 2000 to 2018.</p>","PeriodicalId":15279,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Ethics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141257971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05728-6
Anselm Schneider, John Murray
Contemporary society operates beyond safe boundaries of the Earth system. Returning to a safe operating space for humanity within Earth system boundaries is a question of justice. The relevance of the economy—and thus of business—for bringing society back to a safe and just operating space highlights the importance of business ethics research for understanding the role of business in Earth system justice. In this commentary, we explore the relevance of business ethics research for understanding the crucial role of business in the dynamics of the Earth system. We do so by integrating the perspectives of business ethics and system-oriented sustainability science on the basis of the theory of metabolic rift, which explains how the dynamics of capitalism result in the destruction of the natural environment. On this basis, we argue that a mutually reinforcing relationship between perpetual economic growth and profit seeking behaviour of business, which we call the loop of unsustainability, continually deepens the metabolic rift and keeps business from effectively contributing to Earth system justice. This perspective allows us to formulate firm-level and system-level preconditions for attaining Earth system justice, and to sketch a research agenda that links business ethics scholarship with questions of Earth system justice.
{"title":"Escaping the Loop of Unsustainability: Why and How Business Ethics Matters for Earth System Justice","authors":"Anselm Schneider, John Murray","doi":"10.1007/s10551-024-05728-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05728-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contemporary society operates beyond safe boundaries of the Earth system. Returning to a safe operating space for humanity within Earth system boundaries is a question of justice. The relevance of the economy—and thus of business—for bringing society back to a safe and just operating space highlights the importance of business ethics research for understanding the role of business in Earth system justice. In this commentary, we explore the relevance of business ethics research for understanding the crucial role of business in the dynamics of the Earth system. We do so by integrating the perspectives of business ethics and system-oriented sustainability science on the basis of the theory of metabolic rift, which explains how the dynamics of capitalism result in the destruction of the natural environment. On this basis, we argue that a mutually reinforcing relationship between perpetual economic growth and profit seeking behaviour of business, which we call the <i>loop of unsustainability</i>, continually deepens the metabolic rift and keeps business from effectively contributing to Earth system justice. This perspective allows us to formulate firm-level and system-level preconditions for attaining Earth system justice, and to sketch a research agenda that links business ethics scholarship with questions of Earth system justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":15279,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Ethics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141197178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05734-8
Muhammad Junaid Shahid Hasni, Faruk Anıl Konuk, Tobias Otterbring
Virtue signaling serves to express moral and ethical values publicly, showcasing commitment to social and sustainable ideals. This research, conducted with non-WEIRD samples to mitigate the prevalent WEIRD bias (i.e., the tendency to solely rely on samples from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies), examines whether the scarcely studied virtue-signaling construct mediates the influence of consumers’ attachment anxiety (vs. avoidance) on their green purchase behavior and prosocial responses. Drawing on attachment theory and the emerging virtue-signaling literature, the current work reports the results from three studies (Ntotal = 898) in which consumers’ attachment patterns were not only measured, as in most prior related research, but also manipulated. Study 1 confirmed the unique ability of measured attachment anxiety, but not attachment avoidance, to predict consumers’ green purchase behavior and prosocial tendencies, with virtue signaling mediating these links. Study 2 manipulated participants’ attachment patterns, finding further support for the mediating role of virtue signaling between attachment anxiety (vs. avoidance) and these dependent variables. Study 3 provided a more nuanced account for our virtue-signaling conceptualization by documenting that self-oriented, but not other-oriented, virtue signaling mediated the link between attachment anxiety and both our key outcomes in public contexts. From a managerial viewpoint, these findings indicate that anxiously attached consumers constitute a potentially lucrative segment for companies seeking to expand their market share of sustainable and ethically produced products.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05711-1
Henrik Rydenfelt
30 years ago, R. Edward Freeman levied an influential challenge against the “separation thesis”, which maintains that ethical and business concerns are distinct and separable. However, achieving an integration of empirical and normative research continues to pose significant challenges. In this article, it is argued that the tradition of philosophical pragmatism offers a pathway to bridge this divide. While Freeman’s critique is rooted in pragmatism, it falls short of fully embracing the pragmatist turn as advocated by Charles S. Peirce and John Dewey, who extended the methodologies of empirical inquiry to ethical issues. Typically, this pragmatist turn has been sidelined due to the formidable objection that norms and values cannot be empirically confirmed nor disconfirmed. This objection is critically examined, arguing that it is largely based on conceptions of science associated with positivism and logical empiricism, effectively challenged by pragmatism. Embracing a pragmatist perspective, it is argued, can substantially enhance both theoretical and empirical research within business ethics. This approach entails integrating observations that pertain to the values, norms and responsibilities of businesses. Conversely, with a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of such proposals, observations can help determine which ethical theories and perspectives best accommodate empirical findings. Additionally, pragmatism presents a novel approach to the role of business in society, enabling businesses to engage in democratic processes of inquiry into value.
30 年前,爱德华-弗里曼(R. Edward Freeman)对 "分离论 "提出了颇具影响力的质疑。然而,实现实证研究与规范研究的融合仍然是一项重大挑战。本文认为,哲学实用主义传统为弥合这一鸿沟提供了一条途径。虽然弗里曼的批评植根于实用主义,但它并没有完全接受查尔斯-皮尔斯(Charles S. Peirce)和约翰-杜威(John Dewey)所倡导的实用主义转向,他们将经验探究的方法论扩展到了伦理问题上。通常情况下,由于规范和价值观无法通过经验证实或否定这一令人生畏的反对意见,实用主义转向被搁置一旁。本文对这一反对意见进行了批判性研究,认为它主要是基于与实证主义和逻辑经验主义相关的科学概念,而实用主义则有效地挑战了这一概念。本文认为,从实用主义的角度出发,可以大大加强商业伦理的理论研究和实证研究。这种方法需要整合与企业的价值观、规范和责任有关的观点。反之,在全面了解这些建议的理论基础后,观察结果可以帮助确定哪些伦理理论和观点最适合实证研究结果。此外,实用主义为企业在社会中的作用提供了一种新的方法,使企业能够参与价值的民主调查过程。
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