Paeleman, Ine Guenster, Nadja Vanacker, Tom Siqueira, Ana Cristina O
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Journal of business ethics : JBE
Firms usually need to attract debt to form and grow, but increasing financial leverage also entails increased risks and costs for stakeholders, such as customers and employees. Accordingly, past research suggests that for common commercial firms (CCFs), which prioritize profits, higher leverage leads to lower sales growth and higher employment cost...
Poursoleyman, Ehsan Mansourfar, Gholamreza Hassan, Mohammad Kabir Homayoun, Saeid
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Journal of business ethics : JBE
Using an international setting consisting of 5410 corporations domiciled in 24 countries, we test the insurance-like effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance in the era of the pandemic and confirm that CSR performance increases socially responsible companies' resilience against the adverse effects of the crisis. Comparing stakeho...
Lei, Shaohui
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Journal of Business Ethics
Despite the antecedents of unethical sales behavior (USB) have been well studied, these literatures primarily focus on the work domain and neglect the spillover effects of the home domain. Drawing on ego depletion theory as an overarching theoretical framework, this research investigates why and how salespersons’ work-family conflict (WFC) at home ...
Lefebvre, Vivien
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Journal of Business Ethics
Abundant research exists on the restructuring operations of large, publicly listed firms. However, little is known about the antecedents of layoffs in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Building on the stakeholder salience theory and arguments on social proximity, this study posits that SMEs are less likely to dismiss employees than large f...
Patel, Taran Bote, Rose Stanisljevic, Jovana
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Journal of Business Ethics
Business ethics (BE) professors play a crucial role in sensitizing business students toward their future ethical responsibilities. Yet, there are few papers exploring the ethical challenges these professors themselves face while teaching BE. In this qualitative paper, we rely on the lenses of ethical sensemaking and dramaturgical performance, and d...
Lysova, Evgenia I. Tosti-Kharas, Jennifer Michaelson, Christopher Fletcher, Luke Bailey, Catherine McGhee, Peter
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Journal of Business Ethics
The world of work over the past 3 years has been characterized by a great reset due to the COVID-19 pandemic, giving an even more central role to scholarly discussions of ethics and the future of work. Such discussions have the potential to inform whether, when, and which work is viewed and experienced as meaningful. Yet, thus far, debates concerni...
Mejia, Santiago
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Journal of Business Ethics
The scholarship on meaningful work has approached the topic mostly from the perspective of the subjective experience of the individual worker. This has led the literature to under-theorize, if not outright ignore, the cultural and normative dimension of meaningful work. In particular, it has obscured that a person’s ability to find meaning in her l...
Besharat, Ali Whitler, Kimberly A. Kashmiri, Saim
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Journal of Business Ethics
For over four decades, the topic of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) compensation has attracted considerable attention from the fields of economics, finance, management, public policy, law, and business ethics. As scholarly interest in CEO pay has increased, so has public concern about the ethics of high CEO pay. Despite growing interest and pressure ...
Stock, Christoph Pütz, Laura Schell, Sabrina Werner, Arndt
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Journal of Business Ethics
This systematic literature review contributes to the increasing interest regarding corporate social responsibility (CSR) in family firms—a research field that has developed considerably in the last few years. It now provides the opportunity to take a holistic view on the relationship dynamics—i.e., drivers, activities, outcomes, and contextual infl...
Corral de Zubielqui, Graciela Harris, Howard
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Journal of Business Ethics
The COVID-19 virus was unveiled to the world as a health crisis and later also as an economic crisis. For some organisations, it has become an ethical crisis. This is certainly the case for large organisations in Australia, where the way many enterprises handled a government wage subsidy called JobKeeper led to a public backlash, media pressure, an...
