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Business
Tamas Barko, Martijn Cremers, Luc Renneboog
Summary: The study found that behind-the-scenes investor activism promoting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) improvements has a positive impact on the ESG performance of target companies. Successful activism boosts the sales of target companies and is profitable for the investors involved.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
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Business
Xiaofeng Quan, Yun Ke, Yuting Qian, Yao Zhang
Summary: This study examines the impact of CEO foreign experience on firm's green innovation and explores the mechanisms behind it. The findings reveal a positive correlation between CEO foreign experience and corporate green innovation. Moreover, this positive relationship is more pronounced in financially unconstrained firms, state-owned enterprises, and less competitive industries. The study also suggests that enhanced environmental ethics and general competency serve as potential mechanisms through which CEO foreign experience influences corporate green innovation. Lastly, it is found that CEO foreign experience is positively associated with green innovation quality and internationalization.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2023)
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Business
Abdul Waheed, Qingyu Zhang
Summary: This study examines the impact of corporate social responsibility practices (CSRPs) on sustainable competitive performance (SACP) in SMEs in China and Pakistan, and finds that ethical cultural practices (ECL) mediate the relationship between CSRPs and SACP.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Review
Ethics
Shona Kalkman, Johannes van Delden, Amitava Banerjee, Benoit Tyl, Menno Mostert, Ghislaine van Thiel
Summary: This study conducted a narrative review to investigate patients' and the public's views and attitudes towards the use of health data for research purposes. The results suggest that there is widespread support, albeit conditional, for data sharing for health research among patients and the public. Although participants recognized the actual or potential benefits of data research, they expressed concerns about breaches of confidentiality and potential abuses of the data. The study identified important conditions for data sharing, including value, privacy, risk minimisation, data security, transparency, control, information, trust, responsibility, and accountability. To strengthen the social license for data-intensive health research, these conditions should be operationalised in a governance framework that incorporates the diverse patient and public values, needs, and interests.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
(2022)
Review
Business
Tahniyath Fatima, Said Elbanna
Summary: Despite the growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) since the 1950s, its implementation remains largely unexplored in academia. To address this gap, we conducted a systematic review of 122 empirical studies on CSR implementation and developed an integrated framework that highlights its multi-dimensional and multi-level nature. Our findings inform future research and offer practitioners a holistic view for formulating and implementing CSR strategies.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2023)
Review
Business
Madhurima Mishra, Koustab Ghosh, Dheeraj Sharma
Summary: This study systematically reviews the existing literature on unethical pro-organizational behavior, categorizes previous studies based on theoretical perspectives, and discusses the antecedents and consequences of such behavior in the workplace. It clarifies when, why, and how unethical pro-organizational behavior unfolds and highlights gaps in current theorization, proposing an agenda for future research.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Review
Ethics
Rebecca J. Kreitzer, Jennie Sweet-Cushman
Summary: Student evaluations of teaching are widely used in academia but research shows there are measurement and equity biases present. Studies indicate that women faculty, faculty of color, and other marginalized groups face disadvantages in evaluations. Recommendations for future research include exploring alternative methodologies for assessing teaching effectiveness.
JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC ETHICS
(2022)
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Business
Beat Reber, Agnes Gold, Stefan Gold
Summary: The study found that voluntary ESG disclosure can reduce idiosyncratic volatility and downside risk, and higher ESG ratings are associated with lower firm-specific volatility and downside risk during the first year of trading after IPOs. Companies striving for ESG performance and communicating their efforts signal their compliance with sustainability-related norms, thus acquiring and upholding a societal license to operate.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
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Business
Shaojian Chen, Hui Mao, Junqin Sun
Summary: The study found a positive impact of low-carbon city construction on corporate carbon reduction performance, especially with state-owned enterprises showing a more significant policy effect. Additionally, environmental quality and political promotion incentives also play important roles in influencing corporate carbon reduction performance.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
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Business
Xi Zhong, Liuyang Ren, Tiebo Song
Summary: Research based on the behavioral theory of the firm suggests that firms may adjust their corporate social responsibility levels when facing performance shortfalls, and the characteristics of the board of directors also have a significant impact on this relationship.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
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Business
Hanwen Chen, Siyi Liu, Xin Liu, Daoguang Yang
Summary: Corporate philanthropic decisions during the COVID-19 crisis are influenced by strategic considerations and non-trivial costs. When the pandemic worsens, local firms are less likely to make COVID-19-related donations, and investors react negatively to both the local spread of COVID-19 and philanthropic actions related to the pandemic.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Ethics
Lynn M. Paltrow, Lisa H. Harris, Mary Faith Marshall
Summary: The forthcoming Supreme Court decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has the potential to significantly limit or eliminate legal access to abortion in the United States. The consequences of an abortion ban would extend beyond the scope of abortion care, affecting all individuals who become pregnant and potentially subjecting them to legal surveillance, civil detentions, forced interventions, and criminal prosecution. Such restrictions would disproportionately harm people of color and perpetuate structural racism. Overturning Roe v. Wade would not only erode the rights of those seeking to end a pregnancy, but also undermine the fundamental rights of all pregnant individuals, disregarding their constitutional protections. To ensure the safety, health, humanity, and rights of all people who experience pregnancy, a broader focus is necessary, transcending ideological differences.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS
(2022)
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Business
Teck Ming Tan, Jari Salo
Summary: This study identifies the potential of blockchain technology in the sharing economy through a systematic literature review and co-citation analysis. It proposes a shift of ethical marketing logic in the blockchain-based sharing economy and provides guidance for future research directions.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Ethics
Bert Gordijn, Henk ten Have
MEDICINE HEALTH CARE AND PHILOSOPHY
(2023)
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Ethics
Nin Kirkham, Chris Letheby
Summary: To address environmental challenges, individual behavior needs to be changed. The use of classic psychedelic drugs as a form of moral bio-enhancement can cultivate environmental virtues by inducing unity and connectedness experiences. Recent evidence supports this approach.
PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Ethics
Alexandra Maftei, Andrei-Corneliu Holman
Summary: This study explores the impact of conspiracy ideation, moral disengagement, and intolerance of uncertainty on compliance with anti-SARS-COV-2 social distancing rules and people's reactions toward the coronavirus crisis. The findings suggest that conspiracy ideation and moral disengagement lead to lower assessments of virus risk and lower compliance with confinement measures.
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Ethics
Ellen Fox, Marion Danis, Anita J. Tarzian, Christopher C. Duke
Summary: Since 2000, the number of ethics consultation case performed annually in US hospitals increased by 94% to 68,000, with the average number of consults per hospital remaining unchanged. The level of education of EC practitioners remained the same, but the percentage of hospitals formally evaluating their EC services decreased. The gap between large, teaching hospitals and small, nonteaching hospitals widened compared to the previous study.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS
(2022)
Review
Business
Liming Zhao, Miles M. Yang, Zhenyuan Wang, Grant Michelson
Summary: This paper uses bibliometric methods to analyze and visualize the evolution and research trends in the CSR-leadership domain. The findings highlight the growth in volume and breadth of CSR-leadership research and identify seven subdomains. The research is divided into three stages to provide more insights into the changing research patterns over time.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2023)
Article
Ethics
Felix R. De Bie, Sarah D. Kim, Sourav K. Bose, Pamela Nathanson, Emily A. Partridge, Alan W. Flake, Chris Feudtner
Summary: This scoping review examines the ethical literature on artificial womb technology (AWT), discussing both identified and emerging ethical considerations and concerns related to AWT and the care of fetal neonates.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS
(2023)
Review
Business
Anna Lena Hunkenschroer, Christoph Luetge
Summary: This paper systematically reviews the existing literature on the ethicality of AI-enabled recruiting and summarizes the ethical opportunities, risks, ambiguities, and proposed ways to mitigate ethical risks in practice. It identifies gaps in the current literature and points out moral questions that require deeper exploration in future research.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
