Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility最新文献

{"title":"Green side of informal institutions: Social trust and environmental sustainability","authors":"Daxin Sun,&nbsp;Yaxin Zhang,&nbsp;Xiaohua Meng","doi":"10.1111/beer.12562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12562","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Informal institutions are found to shape the behaviors of economic organizations within the business world by creating localized social norms and moral commitments. However, the existing literature pays greater attention to the financial consequences of such institutions, and little is known about their environmental impacts, especially in the context of transition economies. By linking institutional theory with environmental strategy literature, in this study, we develop a theoretical framework and empirically test how social trust, one of the dimensions of informal institutions, influences corporate environmental responsibility. Using a longitudinal data set of Chinese listed firms from 2006 to 2015, we find support that firms located in regions with a higher level of social trust engage in more environmental responsibility activities. We also show that this effect is more pronounced when local environmental protests are fewer and information transparency is worse. Our findings highlight the importance of social trust in environmental governance and provide evidence of how it serves as a substitute for formal environmental institutions in transition economies.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1352-1372"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50131790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alasdair MacIntyre and Adam Smith on markets, virtues and ends in a capitalist economy","authors":"Paul Oslington","doi":"10.1111/beer.12560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12560","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent decades, Alasdair MacIntyre has developed a style of moral philosophy and an argument for Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics that has deeply influenced business ethics. Most of the work inspired by MacIntyre has dealt with individual and organisational dimensions of business ethics rather than the market economic environment in which individuals and organisations operate. MacIntyre has been a fierce critic of capitalism and economics. He has read Adam Smith an advocate of selfish individualism, rule-based ethics and the banishment of teleology. This reading is seriously defective, and Smith in fact offers much of what MacIntyre calls for in economics. MacIntyre's ethical framework can be made more powerful and useful to business ethicists by incorporating Smithian insights, especially Smith's account of market virtues and teleological account of markets as extended cooperation directed towards the common good of wealth creation. Aside from issues of the interpretation of MacIntyre and Smith, this analysis opens new pathways for dialogue between business ethicists and economists.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1126-1138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/beer.12560","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50135389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainability and interactive network branding in fast-changing business environments","authors":"Stefan Markovic,&nbsp;Nikolina Koporcic,&nbsp;Georges Samara,&nbsp;Ralf Barkemeyer","doi":"10.1111/beer.12557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12557","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;This editorial is part of our BEER Spotlight Editorial Series, where we aim to shed light on relevant topics in business that we believe need more academic attention in BEER and beyond. In this editorial, we address the topic of sustainability in relation to interactive network branding (INB) in the context of fast-changing business environments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Manifold crises are currently affecting business markets, threatening the existence of companies. These include, but are not limited to, the COVID-19 pandemic, the energy crisis, global supply chain issues, and the war in Ukraine. These crises are increasing the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of business environments (see Bennett &amp; Lemoine, &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;), calling for a need to develop novel strategies and business models (Koporcic &amp; Törnroos, &lt;span&gt;2019a&lt;/span&gt;; Markovic, Koporcic, et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Moreover, in the current fast-changing and ever more competitive business environments, customers and other stakeholders are increasingly expecting organizations to positively contribute to society, reduce their negative impacts on the natural environment (e.g., Markovic, Sancha, &amp; Lindgreen, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;), and have distinctive and authentic brands (Markovic, Iglesias, et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). Accordingly, both sustainability and branding are increasingly considered essential components of viable business models and organizational strategies (Koporcic &amp; Törnroos, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sustainability can be defined as the “ability of an organization to favorably drive its actions towards concerns and welfare of people, planet and profits in a way that the company will be able to empower itself to meet its own and its customer's current and future requirements successfully” (Gupta et al., &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;, p. 288). In light of the triple bottom line (TBL) approach, sustainability has three key components: environmental, social, and economic (Elkington, &lt;span&gt;1994&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;; Goh et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Svensson et al., &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;). Environmental sustainability mainly relates to the footprint on the natural environment left by the organization's activities and operations, particularly the use of resources (Hubbard, &lt;span&gt;2009&lt;/span&gt;; Markovic, Sancha, et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Social sustainability is primarily concerned with the organization's influence on societal welfare, contemplating internal and external stakeholders and the different types of communities (Gimenez et al., &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;; Hubbard, &lt;span&gt;2009&lt;/span&gt;). Finally, economic sustainability relates not only to making positive financial results through the organization's activities and operations but also to the influence the organization has on the broader economic environment (Ho &amp; Taylor, &lt;span&gt;2007&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Embracing sustainability can not only enable organizations to positively contribute to (or reduce their negative impact on) socie","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 3","pages":"877-881"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/beer.12557","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50123969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does religious atmosphere promote corporate green innovation performance? Evidence from China","authors":"Maoyan She,&nbsp;Die Hu,&nbsp;Zhiwei Wang,&nbsp;Xuan Zhao","doi":"10.1111/beer.12550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12550","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Green innovation has been attracting much attention from academia and practice, but the influence of religion as an important informal institutional factor has not been fully investigated in existing studies. Taking Chinese listed companies from 2008 to 2019 as a sample, this study attempts to examine the relationship between religious atmosphere and corporate green innovation performance. The empirical results indicate that a religious atmosphere (Buddhism and Taoism as a whole) can significantly improve corporate green innovation performance, particularly high-quality green innovation. The positive association between religion and green innovation performance is attenuated by pervasive formal institutions (i.e., environmental regulation), indicating that there is a substitutive effect between religion and formal institutions. We also find that Taoism mainly supports these results, while Buddhism has a limited impact, showing that there is a heterogeneous effect between different religions. We further find that the positive impact of religious atmosphere on green innovation performance is more pronounced in low-governance enterprises and low-polluting industries. This study contributes to research on the antecedents of corporate green innovation and the consequence of religion, which is of great significance to the value of religion in business practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1506-1531"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50120839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inclusive leadership and work engagement: Exploring the role of psychological safety and trust in leader in multiple organizational context","authors":"Saeed Siyal","doi":"10.1111/beer.12556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12556","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Building on social information processing theory and social exchange theory, this research advances the emerging concept of work engagement and inclusive leadership. Surprisingly, there is no study linking work engagement and inclusive leadership style in the setting of multiple organizations in China. The main purpose of this study is to identify the effective leadership style affecting work engagement directly and indirectly through psychological safety. The trust in leader further moderated the direct relationships. Using multi-source data of 390 responses from leaders-subordinates dyads working in 20 Chinese companies (which include textile, manufacturing, construction, and trading), this study tested how inclusive leadership increased the work engagement of their subsequent subordinates. The mediating role of psychological safety and moderating role of trust in leader therein. The findings introduced an interactive motivational framework that revealed the positive influence of inclusive leadership on the work engagement of subordinates. Further, psychological safety mediated the direct relationship between inclusive leaders and work engagement. The role of trust in leader strengthened the direct relationship of inclusive leadership with psychological safety and work engagement. This is among the first studies to integrate inclusive leadership, psychological safety, trust in leader, and work engagement into a single interactive framework. Further, it provides empirical evidence in the context of predicting and increasing the work engagement of subordinates.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1170-1184"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50120840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Consumer ethics: An extensive bibliometric review (1995–2021)","authors":"Inés Küster,&nbsp;Natalia Vila","doi":"10.1111/beer.12558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12558","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nowadays, consumer ethics represents a relevant field of review. There have been some attempts to conduct literature reviews; however, these have been few and incomplete. For this reason, this paper follows two main objectives: (1) to develop a performance analysis to measure the impact/perceptibility of academic production on consumer ethics (most cited authors, journals and themes) and (2) to visually present the scientific structure by themes of research in consumer ethics as well as its evolution along time. Using SciMAT software, a comprehensive thematic review is discussed. 568 scientific papers (2569 keywords and 8642 citations) were retrieved from the Web of Science from 1995 to 2021 (May). Our results show three main periods with two main research themes (consumer and corporate social responsibility), which remain relevant themes at the time. Also, some new themes that promote ethical consumption have gained weight or appear over time, some of which are linked to the marketing field (such as experiences, satisfaction, attitudes or privacy among others).</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1150-1169"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/beer.12558","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50120841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards theorising corporate social irresponsibility: The Déjà Vu cases of collapsed forestry ventures","authors":"Tiffany C. H. Leung,&nbsp;Artie W. Ng,&nbsp;Andreas G. F. Hoepner,&nbsp;Maretno A. Harjoto","doi":"10.1111/beer.12551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12551","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on case studies and secondary data, this study theorises how and why firms engage in corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR). Using the inductive process of theory building based on case studies of two forestry companies operating in China, this study explains how and why organisations with initial intentions towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) engage in CSIR based on paths taken and the behaviours across micro (individual), meso (organisational), and macro (industry) levels. Hence, there is a ‘grey zone’ between CSR and CSIR (Clark, C. E., Riera, M., &amp; Iborra, M. (2021). <i>Business &amp; Society</i>, <b>61</b>, 1473–1511. 10.1177/00076503211015911). This study extends the path dependence literature on CSIR (Küberling-Jost, J.A. (2019). <i>Journal of Business Ethics</i>, <b>169</b>(3), 579–601) by integrating moral disengagement and the theory of planned behaviour, stakeholder agency, and institutional theory into path dependence theory based on observed behaviours across micro, meso, and macro levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 4","pages":"1452-1469"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50155902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differential impact of chief executive officer tenure on the firm's external and internal corporate social responsibility: Moderating effects of firm's visibility and slack","authors":"Marwan Al-Shammari,&nbsp;Soumendra Banerjee,&nbsp;Miguel Caldas,&nbsp;Krist Swimberghe","doi":"10.1111/beer.12548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12548","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Inconsistent corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices across stakeholder groups may induce undesired consequences for the firm. This study investigates the longitudinal and differential effect of chief executive officer (CEO) tenure on external and internal CSR and the moderating effects of two important contingencies relevant to the firm's social investments: firm visibility and slack availability. It presents CEO tenure as an important upper echelon factor that may induce differential preferences toward external and internal CSR and, therefore, CSR inconsistencies. Accordingly, it proposes two important and relevant contingencies and provides additional evidence on how a firm's visibility and slack availability could affect CEO tenure-related differential behaviors. The findings contribute to studies on the temporal orientations of CEOs and how they impact firm strategic behavior. They also contribute to the literature on firm visibility and slack and how they may interact with certain upper echelon characteristics and affect firm behaviors. The analysis cautions against the perceptions of the relationships between firm- and CEO-level variables and a firm's aggregate CSR.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 3","pages":"961-985"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50146857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do academic CEOs influence corporate social irresponsibility? The moderating effects of negative attainment discrepancy and slack resources","authors":"Liuyang Ren,&nbsp;Xi Zhong,&nbsp;Liangyong Wan","doi":"10.1111/beer.12549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12549","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Academic experience has been found to significantly impact on the attitudes and behaviors of managerial decision-makers, which in turn influences corporate strategic decisions. However, the impact of academic decision-makers on corporate ethical decisions, particularly corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR), has yet to receive due attention to date. In this study, we integrate the upper echelons theory and managerial discretion literature to examine whether and when academic CEOs (CEOs with academic experience) influence corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR). First, we suggest that academic CEOs discourage CSIR because they have higher moral standards; thus, their companies are less likely to engage in CSIR activities. In addition, we propose that negative attainment discrepancy (slack resources) reduces (enhances) academic CEOs' managerial discretion to incorporate their ethical preferences into their decisions, thereby weakening (enhancing) the above relationship. This study is the first to examine the relationship between academic CEOs and CSIR. Additionally, the empirical findings of this study offer crucial insights for shareholders and policymakers to prevent or mitigate CSIR effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 3","pages":"946-960"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50134053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"All about the human: A Buddhist take on AI ethics","authors":"Chien-Te Lin","doi":"10.1111/beer.12547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12547","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As AI technology becomes more influential, ethical considerations surrounding its application are becoming increasingly relevant. In this paper, I reflect on some moral questions from a Buddhist perspective and consider the moral status of AI to evaluate its function and purpose in our lives. Since a robot lacks the capacity to experience suffering and has no conscience, AI ethics are possible only as ethics <i>about</i> robots and not as ethics <i>for</i> robots. Despite having no concrete moral status, robots cannot be deemed entirely morally insignificant as they exist as moral objects toward which moral agents have a duty. Our unique endowment as human beings is the intelligence for moral deliberation as we develop AI technologies and determine the future direction of humanity. From a Buddhist point of view, there is potential to advance our spiritual growth through the realization of the interdependence between humans and AI. As we recognize the uniqueness of our humanity and take a middle-way approach, the rise of robots need not threaten our existence but could instead catapult humanity into a new dawn.</p>","PeriodicalId":29886,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility","volume":"32 3","pages":"1113-1122"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50120735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}