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Business
Xiaoyu Wang, Xiaotong (Janey) Zheng, Shuming Zhao
Summary: Drawing on social exchange theory, this study examines the conditions under which employees' good intentions motivate them to engage in unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) and the mediating role of feelings of indebtedness to the organization. The findings indicate an interactive effect between perceived organizational support and employee performance on UPB, shedding light on the importance of conditional factors in motivating UPB. This study contributes to understanding the UPB decision process by combining employee's intentions with organizational support and performance levels.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Ethics
Preston Greene, Andrew Latham, Kristie Miller, James Norton
Summary: Recent studies have shown that people's preferences are more nuanced than previously thought, with third-person preferences being time-neutral only when the target is a stranger. When individuals perceive they can control future events, they tend to prefer negative hedonic events to be in the past.
PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Business
Neelam Chawla, Basanta Kumar
Summary: This study analyzed the Indian legal framework protecting online consumers, highlighting the importance of a secure system, cash on delivery, website information, and customer service. The new regulations may safeguard online consumers' rights and enhance India's e-commerce growth.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Ethics
Cristina Richie
Summary: The US healthcare industry is estimated to emit 479 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, with hospital care, clinical services, medical structures, and pharmaceuticals being the top emitters. Research has primarily focused on medical structures and equipment in terms of carbon emissions, with more recent attention being given to hospital care and clinical services. However, pharmaceutical carbon emissions have been understudied, and this article will examine the factors contributing to it.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Camelia Radu, Nadia Smaili
Summary: Through the analysis of 164 Canadian firms, this study found that the CSR committee has both a direct and an indirect positive effect on CSR performance, with CSR-linked executive compensation playing a mediating role in this process. Additionally, the results suggest that environmental performance and social performance are treated differently in response to demands from internal and external stakeholders.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Erik Hermann
Summary: Artificial intelligence is reshaping strategies and relationships in business and marketing, however, ethical controversies arise when deploying AI in marketing. By examining ethical challenges from a multi-stakeholder perspective, it is possible to leverage AI in marketing to promote societal and environmental well-being.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Yanping Gong, Jian Li, Julan Xie, Long Zhang, Qiuyin Lou
Summary: The study found that parents' green consumption values influence those of young adolescents, with this effect being mediated by parents' environmentally responsible consumption behavior. Additionally, this mediation process is more significant when there is a close parent-child relationship.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Ying Wang, Shufeng Xiao, Run Ren
Summary: This study investigates the consequence of unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) from the perspective of the actors using moral cleansing theory, finding that individuals tend to feel guilty after conducting UPB and may cleanse their wrongdoings by providing suggestions or identifying problems at work. The relationship is moderated by the actor's moral identity symbolization.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Ethics
Kyle Fruh, Alfred Archer, Jake Wojtowicz
Summary: This paper examines the phenomenon of sportswashing and its negative impact. Sportswashing is the practice of using an association with sports, such as hosting events or owning clubs, to divert attention from moral violations. It makes participants complicit in wrongdoing and corrupts valuable sporting heritage. Resisting sportswashing requires different roles to adopt different forms of resistance.
SPORT ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY
(2023)
Article
Business
Brooke Fisher Liu, Duli Shi, JungKyu Rhys Lim, Khairul Islam, America L. Edwards, Matthew Seeger
Summary: This study found that crisis plans created prior to the pandemic were inadequate to deal with the long and highly uncertain nature of the crisis. Instead, higher education leaders applied guiding principles on-the-go to support decision-making, suggesting that infusing shared values into future crisis plans can help avoid moral dilemmas. Formal ethics committees and crisis-relevant expertise among leaders are recommended to navigate ethics tensions inherent in crises.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Shan Xu, Panyi Ma
Summary: This study shows that firms led by CEOs who have experienced poverty in their early life are more likely to engage in socially responsible activities and have a stronger focus on stakeholder-related CSR. This positive relationship between the CEO's poverty experience and CSR is even stronger for CEOs with higher education or greater power, suggesting that early-life poverty may lead to stronger compassion and prosocial psychology in CEOs.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Ethics
Hilary Bowman-Smart, Christopher Gyngell, Cara Mand, David J. Amor, Martin B. Delatycki, Julian Savulescu
Summary: The article discusses the potential use of noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for testing non-medical traits, presenting arguments against and in favor of permitting such use. The objections to permitting these uses include practical problems and negative impacts on the child, family, and society, while the arguments for permitting them include reproductive liberty and autonomy, as well as the principle of procreative beneficence.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS
(2023)
Article
Ethics
Jonathan Pugh, Julian Savulescu, Rebecca C. H. Brown, Dominic Wilkinson
Summary: COVID-19 vaccine requirements have sparked significant debates. This article argues that natural immunity should be recognized as a sufficient basis for exemption from vaccination requirements, as there is a lack of clear scientific evidence showing the superiority of vaccine-induced immunity over natural immunity.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Babita Bhatt
Summary: This paper investigates how social enterprises navigate through the ethical complexity of social change and extends the ethical quandaries faced by social enterprises (SEs) beyond organisational boundaries. Building on the emerging literature on the ethics of SEs, the author conceptualises ethics as an engagement with power relations. The study provides insights into the moral ambiguity of ethical decision-making and suggests pathways for ethical actions in a hierarchical and heterogeneous rural Indian context.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Economics
Daniel Williams
Summary: Recent research in economics has highlighted the significance of belief-based utility in understanding human behavior. However, belief 'choice' is constrained by the requirement of rationalizations. This constraint gives rise to rationalization markets, where individuals compete to provide rationalizations for similar beliefs in exchange for money and social rewards. This article explores the nature of such markets, using political media as an example to illustrate their characteristics and behavior, and emphasizes their implications for understanding motivated cognition and misinformation.
ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY
(2023)
Article
Ethics
Jordan Joseph Wadden
Summary: The 'black box problem' in AI, a longstanding issue, is highlighted as a significant point of tension among ethicists, programmers, clinicians, and those involved in AI development for healthcare applications. The lack of precise definitions for these systems within AI circles leads to misunderstandings and debates, which this paper aims to address by proposing a clear definition through synthesizing existing literature and criteria.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Ethics
Lukas J. Meier, Alice Hein, Klaus Diepold, Alena Buyx
Summary: This study demonstrates how an algorithm based on certain moral principles can be used for moral dilemma situations in medical institutions, discussing the use of fuzzy cognitive maps and machine learning, as well as extracting appropriate parameters from clinical case datasets.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Hanna Ahlstrom, David Monciardini
Summary: The financial sector in Europe is transitioning towards 'sustainable' finance, driven by regulatory reforms, but there are concerns about the real impact of these reforms and the potential financialization of sustainability. Research suggests that regulatory dynamics depend on the hybrid configuration of social constituencies supporting sustainable finance reforms and shifts in the prevalence of financial logic in society. This sheds light on the contradictions and limitations of sustainable finance as a means for transformative sustainability reforms.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Andreas Seebeck, Julia Vetter
Summary: The study finds a positive relationship between board gender diversity and corporate risk disclosure, but suggests that a critical mass of female directors is needed for an impact. Firms that disclosed Brexit-related risks in their annual reports before the referendum date had lower bid-ask spreads immediately after the vote.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Gabi Eissa, Scott W. Lester
Summary: Building on the emerging research on antecedents of abusive supervision, this study offers an empirical investigation on how supervisor psychological entitlement leads to abusive supervision in the workplace. The study proposes a moderated-mediation model which suggests that psychological entitlement facilitates moral disengagement, triggering abusive behaviors towards subordinates. The study also highlights the importance of supervisor moral identity and core self-evaluation in predicting the relationship between supervisor psychological entitlement and abusive supervision.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
(2022)
