Topic · Ethics in Business and Education
Most cited papers in Ethics in Business and Education
What are the most cited papers in Ethics in Business and Education?
The most cited paper in Ethics in Business and Education is "Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of who and What Really Counts" (Ronald K. Mitchell, Bradley R. Agle, Donna J. Wood, 1997), with 9,522 citations. Next come "The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: Toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders" (8,960) and "Corporate Social Responsibility: a Theory of the Firm Perspective" (5,797).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,055 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of who and What Really Counts Ronald K. Mitchell, Bradley R. Agle, Donna J. Wood · Academy of Management Review | Oct 1997 | 9,522 |
| 2 | The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: Toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders Archie B. Carroll · Business Horizons | Jul 1991 | 8,960 |
| 3 | Corporate Social Responsibility: a Theory of the Firm Perspective Abagail McWilliams, Donald S. Siegel · Academy of Management Review | 2001 | 5,797 |
| 4 | Ethical leadership: A social learning perspective for construct development and testing Michael E. Brown, Linda Klebe Treviño, David A. Harrison · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | 28 Apr 2005 | 5,373 |
| 5 | Misery Loves Companies: Rethinking Social Initiatives by Business Joshua D. Margolis, James P. Walsh · Administrative Science Quarterly | Jun 2003 | 5,162 |
| 6 | Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility John L. Campbell · Academy of Management Review | Jul 2007 | 4,890 |
| 7 | How corporate social responsibility is defined: an analysis of 37 definitions Alexander Dahlsrud · Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management | 9 Nov 2006 | 4,079 |
| 8 | Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory Elisabet Garriga, Domènec Melé · Journal of Business Ethics | Aug 2004 | 3,991 |
| 9 | Ethical leadership: A review and future directions Michael E. Brown, Linda Klebe Treviño · The Leadership Quarterly | 21 Nov 2006 | 3,961 |
| 10 | Notes on the Concept of Commitment Howard S. Becker · American Journal of Sociology | Jul 1960 | 3,942 |
| 11 | The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Concepts, Research and Practice Archie B. Carroll, Kareem M. Shabana · International Journal of Management Reviews | 15 Jan 2010 | 3,915 |
| 12 | Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices Sumantra Ghoshal · Academy of Management Learning and Education | Mar 2005 | 3,842 |
| 13 | Moral Identity and Developmental Theory Daniel K. Lapsley · Human Development | 2015 | 3,826 |
| 14 | Shareholder value, stakeholder management, and social issues: what's the bottom line? Amy J. Hillman, Gerald D. Keim · Strategic Management Journal | 2001 | 3,702 |
| 15 | Organizational Justice: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Jerald Greenberg · Journal of Management | Jun 1990 | 3,675 |
| 16 | TOWARD A STEWARDSHIP THEORY OF MANAGEMENT James H. Davis, F. David Schoorman, Lex Donaldson · Academy of Management Review | 1997 | 3,561 |
| 17 | What We Know and Don’t Know About Corporate Social Responsibility Herman Aguinis, Ante Glavas · Journal of Management | Mar 2012 | 3,543 |
| 18 | Putting the S back in corporate social responsibility: A multilevel theory of social change in organizations Ruth V. Aguilera, Deborah Elizabeth Rupp, Cynthia A. Williams et al. · Academy of Management Review | Jul 2007 | 3,426 |
| 19 | Ethical Decision Making by Individuals in Organizations: An Issue-Contingent Model Thomas M. Jones · Academy of Management Review | Apr 1991 | 3,282 |
| 20 | INSTRUMENTAL STAKEHOLDER THEORY: A SYNTHESIS OF ETHICS AND ECONOMICS Thomas M. Jones · Academy of Management Review | Apr 1995 | 3,155 |
| 21 | A TYPOLOGY OF DEVIANT WORKPLACE BEHAVIORS: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING STUDY. Sandra L. Robinson, Robert J. Bennett · Academy of Management Journal | Apr 1995 | 3,103 |
| 22 | Self-Efficacy: A Theoretical Analysis of Its Determinants and Malleability Marilyn E. Gist, Terence R. Mitchell · Academy of Management Review | Apr 1992 | 3,024 |
| 23 | Trust and Breach of the Psychological Contract Sandra L. Robinson · Administrative Science Quarterly | Dec 1996 | 3,010 |
| 24 | Ethical Decision Making in Organizations: A Person-Situation Interactionist Model Linda Klebe Treviño · Academy of Management Review | Jul 1986 | 2,862 |
| 25 | The Relationship Between Corporate Philanthropy And Shareholder Wealth: A Risk Management Perspective Paul C. Godfrey · Academy of Management Review | Oct 2005 | 2,856 |
| 26 | Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art Bidhan Lalit Parmar, R. Edward Freeman, Jeffrey S. Harrison et al. · Academy of Management Annals | 2010 | 2,757 |
| 27 | A General Theory of Marketing Ethics Shelby D. Hunt, Scott John Vitell · Journal of Macromarketing | Jun 1986 | 2,606 |
| 28 | AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PROFITABILITY. Kenneth E. Aupperle, Andrew Carroll, John D. Hatfield · Academy of Management Journal | Jun 1985 | 2,543 |
| 29 | Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior Bernard M. Bass, Paul Steidlmeier · The Leadership Quarterly | 1999 | 2,527 |
| 30 | Violating the psychological contract: Not the exception but the norm Sandra L. Robinson, Denise M. Rousseau · Journal of Organizational Behavior | May 1994 | 2,495 |
| 31 | Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility Roland Bénabou, Jean Tirole · Economica | 16 Dec 2009 | 2,301 |
| 32 | Stakeholder Theory and “The Corporate Objective Revisited” R. Edward Freeman, Andrew C. Wicks, Bidhan Lalit Parmar · Organization Science | Jun 2004 | 2,284 |
| 33 | The Double-Edge of Organizational Legitimation Blake E. Ashforth, Barrie W. Gibbs · Organization Science | May 1990 | 2,224 |
| 34 | Conceptualizing Employee Silence and Employee Voice as Multidimensional Constructs* Linn Van Dyne, Soon Ghee Ang, Isabel C. Botero · Journal of Management Studies | 4 Aug 2003 | 2,051 |
| 35 | Intuitive ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues Jonathan Haidt, Craig Joseph · Daedalus | Sep 2004 | 1,990 |
| 36 | TRUST: THE CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS LaRue Tone Hosmer · Academy of Management Review | Apr 1995 | 1,979 |
| 37 | The Case for and Against Business Assumption of Social Responsibilities. Keith Davis · Academy of Management Journal | Jun 1973 | 1,979 |
| 38 | Corporate Citizenship: Toward an Extended Theoretical Conceptualization Dirk Matten, Andrew Crane · Academy of Management Review | 2005 | 1,906 |
| 39 | Corporate Social Responsibility and Marketing: An Integrative Framework Isabelle Maignan, O. C. Ferrell · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | 2004 | 1,870 |
| 40 | Behavioral Ethics in Organizations: A Review Linda Klebe Treviño, Gary R. Weaver, Scott J. Reynolds · Journal of Management | 6 Nov 2006 | 1,824 |
| 41 | Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility: A Scale Development Study Duygu Türker · Journal of Business Ethics | 23 May 2008 | 1,779 |
| 42 | Cause-Related Marketing: A Coalignment of Marketing Strategy and Corporate Philanthropy P. Rajan Varadarajan, Anil Menon · Journal of Marketing | Jul 1988 | 1,761 |
| 43 | A Contingency Framework for Understanding Ethical Decision Making in Marketing O. C. Ferrell, Larry G. Gresham · Journal of Marketing | Jun 1985 | 1,756 |
| 44 | Toward a Political Conception of Corporate Responsibility. Business and Society Seen From a Habermasian Perspective Andreas Georg Scherer, Guido Palazzo · Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) | 2007 | 1,717 |
| 45 | Bad apples, bad cases, and bad barrels: Meta-analytic evidence about sources of unethical decisions at work. Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart, David A. Harrison, Linda Klebe Treviño · Journal of Applied Psychology | 2010 | 1,693 |
| 46 | Corporate social responsibility communication: stakeholder information, response and involvement strategies Mette Morsing, Majken Schultz · Business Ethics A European Review | 14 Sep 2006 | 1,654 |
| 47 | The myth of the ethical consumer – do ethics matter in purchase behaviour? Marylyn Carrigan, Ahmad Attalla · Journal of Consumer Marketing | Dec 2001 | 1,643 |
| 48 | How low does ethical leadership flow? Test of a trickle-down model David M. Mayer, Maribeth Kuenzi, Rebecca Lee Greenbaum et al. · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | 18 Jun 2008 | 1,593 |
| 49 | Business Ethics: Corporate Responses to Scandal Charles J. Fombrun, Christopher Foss · Corporate Reputation Review | Oct 2004 | 1,593 |
| 50 | Explaining the Limited Effectiveness of Legalistic “Remedies” for Trust/Distrust Sim B. Sitkin, Nancy L. Roth · Organization Science | Aug 1993 | 1,554 |
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