Search Results - subject_exact:"Moral"

Equal chances or fewer victims? : moral judgments in autonomous vehicle dilemmas

Matros, Alexander; Bilen, Eren; Matros, Leonid - 2026

We examine the moral dilemma of how autonomous vehicles (AVs) should be programmed to act in unavoidable crash scenarios involving trade-offs between saving one life and saving many. We report results from three experimental studies that investigate individuals' preferences over alternative AV...

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Consequential ethical dilemmas : the payoff-trolley game

Dickinson, David L. - 2026

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Consequential ethical dilemmas : the Payoff-Trolley game

Dickinson, David L. - 2026

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On the post-enlightenment evolution of moral universalism

Jetter, Michael - 2026

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On the post-enlightenment evolution of moral universalism

Jetter, Michael - 2024

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Consequential ethical dilemmas : the Payoff-Trolley game

Dickinson, David L. - 2026

This paper introduces a novel Payoff-Trolley dilemma task, where other participants' payoffs were at stake on the main or sidetrack in a trolley dilemma. Different scenarios varied the number of "others' payoffs" on the sidetrack and main track in ways that helped identify more clearly immoral...

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Consequential ethical dilemmas : the payoff-trolley game

Dickinson, David L. - 2026

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Moral capital and leadership : a possible solution to the African problem?

Ilesanmi, Kehinde Damilola - 2026

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Moral capital threshold in the effectiveness of ODA for social infrastructure

Vincent, Moses Owede; Greyling, Lorraine - 2026

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Do firms have the responsibility to be morally responsible? : moral capital versus firm growth in selected African countries

Akande, Joseph Olorunfemi - 2026

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Serving three masters : thematic analyses reveal inherent ethical tensions in fundraising

Chapman, Cassandra M.; Hornsey, Matthew J.; Bleiker, Roland - 2026

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The folk ethics of commodification : an empirical investigation into moral attitudes against market transactions

Krügel, Sebastian; Uhl, Matthias; Pies, Ingo - 2026

Commodification is the process of transforming goods or services traditionally transferred without charge into commercially exchangeable commodities. Critics argue that this transformation often entails the loss of inherent value, rendering the resulting transactions morally problematic. In...

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It's not my responsibility : working with autonomy-restricting algorithms facilitates unethical behavior and displacement of responsibility

Jolly, Anupama A.; Dunlop, Patrick D.; Parker, Sharon K.; … - 2026

While algorithmic decision-making technology can greatly improve efficiency at work, it has the potential to promote unethical decision making in humans who work with the technology. In this paper, we test how the moral disengagement mechanism, displacement of responsibility arises, as an...

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Is competition inherently sleazy? : why the market failures approach says yes and Kantian ethics says no

Hughes, Robert C. - 2026

Joseph Heath presents his market failures approach to business ethics as a happy medium between cynicism and the idealism of traditional moral theories such as Kantian ethics, which Heath believes to be incompatible with important forms of competition. The market failures approach defends some...

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Utility and democracy in political campaign advertising : toward a rule-utilitarian ethic for political marketing and the ethics of meddling in the other party's primary

Reed, Joel - 2026

Political advertising ethics has long been dominated by an adherence to the norms of democratic idealism or the highly situational ethics of act utilitarianism. This article proposes an alternative system of political advertising ethics grounded in Brandt’s ideal moral code theory, a form of...

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Rethinking crisis as expected : stakeholder leadership in navigating ethical dilemmas and avoiding polycrises

Menghwar, Prem Sagar; Homberg, Fabian; Zaidi, Zafar; … - 2026

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When music is made by AI : effects on preferences and willingness to pay

Friedrichsen, Jana; Schwarz, Julia; Clement, Michel - 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping society, including the music industry. Recent advancements in generative AI enable users to create music from text-based prompts, raising questions about public perception and valuation of AI-generated music. We conducted three studies with...

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In the name of human value : religion and ethics in the business world

Chessel, Marie-Emmanuelle; Guiheux, Gilles; Thomann, Bernard - 2026

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Ethics reviews meet the global south : hidden barriers to contextualized knowledge generation

Dzhengiz, Tulin; Halme, Minna; Khan, Iqra Sadaf; … - 2026

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Stepping stone or quicksand? : ethical understandings of non-profit support organizations and capability consequences

Qin, Shuai - 2026

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Dishonesty in complex environments : deliberate lies, shortcuts, or accidental mistakes?

Nieder, Pascal; Simon, Sven Arne - 2026 - This version: May 21, 2026

Compliance with complex regulatory requirements can be challenging. We study why and how complexity affects non-compliance in terms of incorrect reporting. Our novel experimental design isolates two distinct complexity effects: an increase in honest mistakes and a substantial shift toward...

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Post-Keynesian economics : theory and ethics

Dutt, Amitava Krishna - 2026

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The ethics and politics of care : reshaping economic thinking and practice

Harcourt, Wendy - 2026

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From leadership recession to systemic leadership : an ethical model of recovery

Manoutzopoulou, Sofia; Serdaris, Panagiotis; … - 2026

The contemporary crisis of trust in institutions and organizations has intensified what recent literature describes as a "leadership recession", characterized by declining ethical legitimacy and limited capacity to manage systemic change. This article introduces the concept of leadership...

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AI-driven leadership : decision-making, competencies, and ethical challenges$da systematic review

Sacavém, António; Machado, Andreia de Bem; Santos, … - 2026

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming leadership and raising critical questions about decision-making, leadership capabilities, and ethical accountability in increasingly digitalized organizations. Objective: This systematic review synthesizes peer-reviewed evidence to answer:...

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Validation of the Emirati Higher Education Institutions Ethical Climate scale : a unidimensional approach based on Victor and Cullen's (1988) ethical climate theory

Alowais, Abdelaziz Abdalla; Suliman, Abubakr Mohyeldin Tahir - 2026

Introduction: Ethical climate theory traditionally conceptualizes organizational ethics as a set of distinct normative dimensions. However, recent evidence suggests that ethical perceptions may converge into a unified climate in culturally cohesive and institutionally regulated contexts. This...

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Lay moralities of young workers and the moral economy of service labour

Farrugia, David - 2026

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On morality, human behaviour and economics

2026

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Signalling trustworthiness of internal whistleblowing channels in organizations : temporality matters!

Vandekerckhove, Wim; Fotaki, Marianna; Kenny, Kate; … - 2026

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When teachers break the rules : imitation, reciprocity, and community structure in the transmission of ethical behavior

Lavy, Victor; Shayo, Moses - 2026

We study how teachers' rule violations in grading affect students' ethical behavior. Using administrative data from high-stakes exams, combining teacher-assigned internal scores with externally graded national exam scores, we track teacher grading violations and subsequent student cheating. We...

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Morals and the political economy of corrective taxes

Bierbrauer, Felix; Polborn, Mattias; Ritterrath, Marten; … - 2026

We study the political economy of carbon taxes when neoclassical consumers take all other agents' emissions as given and socially responsible consumers internalize damages in a group-rule-utilitarian way, taking neoclassical consumers' behavior as given. We characterize political equilibrium...

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Morals and the political economy of corrective taxes

Bierbrauer, Felix; Polborn, Mattias; Ritterrath, Marten; … - 2026

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Morals and the political economy of corrective taxes

Bierbrauer, Felix; Polborn, Mattias; Ritterrath, Marten; … - 2026

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From QAnon to the climate change hoax : using "Moral Politics Theory" to explain conspiracy mentality among the ideological right

Elkmann, Janek; Schrimpf, Tobias - 2026

Research on conspiracy theories and predictors that explain susceptibility to believing in conspiracy theories (conspiracy mentality) has already led to a considerable body of academic contributions. Nevertheless, we see the necessity to continue working on higher-level frameworks that summarize...

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Algorithmic ethics in corporate contexts : knowledge mapping for responsible management

Barreno-Alcalde, Santiago; Delso-Vicente, Alberto-Tomas; … - 2026

The incorporation of algorithmic systems into organizations is reconfiguring decision-making processes and raising new ethical challenges related to transparency, impartiality, and accountability. This study maps the field of algorithmic ethics in organizational contexts through a...

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Machiavellian leadership, ethical mentorship, and trust erosion in higher education institutions : a qualitative study

Alowais, Abdelaziz Abdalla; Suliman, Abubakr Mohyeldin Tahir - 2026

This study explores how Machiavellian leadership behaviors may become embedded in ethical mentorship relationships and how these dynamics influence trust formation, dependency, emotional ambivalence, and trust erosion within higher education institutions (HEIs). Drawing on destructive leadership...

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Ethical implications using artificial intelligence in IT sector and its impact on competitive advantage and employee commitment through parallel mediating role of employee motivation and responsible innovation

Phutela, Arshita; Mittal, Ella - 2026

Purpose - Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently influencing many aspects of business and the lives of humans. Understanding how AI may be built to operate ethically and satisfy the expectations of stakeholders is critical. Ethicalramifications of AI were investigated by several pioneering...

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Do the means justify the ends? : entrepreneurs' moral legitimacy in religious networks

Harris, Shannon; MacKenzie, Niall G.; Mason, Colin M. - 2026

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Between mandate and morality : navigating care home recruitment and mandatory vaccination during COVID-19

Yarrow, Emily; Varma, Shiv; Brannan, Matthew J. - 2026

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A contextual model of moral injury : redefining trauma in frontline professions through ethics and context

Molendijk, Tine - 2026

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Human enhancement technologies : a survey experiment on private demand and governance preferences

Immordino, Giovanni; Macis, Mario; Marino, Immacolata; … - 2026

When a new technology promises large private benefits but may impose social costs that markets do not price, demand need not reveal how citizens want it governed. We examine this using a nationally representative U.S. survey experiment (N=5,556) on human enhancement technologies (HET). The...

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The knowledge of ethical AI decision-making : a behavioral economics perspective

Bužinskienė, Rita; Miceikienė, Astrida; … - 2026

Focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and behavioral economics, this paper demonstrates how integrating behavioral insights can inform ethical guidelines for AI-based systems. Recent developments conceptualize AI as a key to critical sectors such as finance, marketing, and healthcare,...

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General commitment, ethical leadership and work teams in an emerging Latin American economy : evidence from Peru

Triguero-Sánchez, Rafael; Peña-Vinces, Jesús; … - 2026

Although ethical leadership (EL) is theorised to enhance employees' commitment, the empirical base supporting this relationship is largely derived from Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic (WEIRD) contexts. Drawing on social exchange theory and the...

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Blue lies

Charness, Gary; Dimant, Eugen; Grieco, Daniela - 2026

We introduce the "blue lies game," a sender-receiver interaction where lying benefits both the liar and her ingroup member at the outgroup's expense. Across 9,672 U.S. participants assigned to groups based on either random allocation or political partisanship, 38-57% of senders lie. An ingroup...

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Artificial intelligence adoption and ethical governance in Australian insurance : evidence from web-based content analysis

Morales Armijo, Matias A.; Zhang, Jinhui; Shi, Yanlin - 2026

The findings of this study indicate that although artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in operational practices across the Australian insurance sector, explicit engagement with ethical AI principles remains limited. Based on an analysis of 156 AI-related web pages from...

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The customer is always right? : how LLMs and humans judge discrimination

Bunel, Matthieu; Lefebvre, Marie-Noëlle; Tovar, Elisabeth - 2026

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Moral characters : social media and elections in the US

Grillo, Edoardo; Morales, Juan S.; Moresi, Alessandra - 2026

We study how politicians' adoption of social media, and the use of moral language, affect electoral returns. We compile a new dataset covering over 4,000 Twitter accounts and almost five million tweets by US House candidates over 2008-2018. We document several descriptive facts: social media use...

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Nighttime ethics : do moral choices differ by time-of-day/night?

Dickinson, David L. - 2026

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Dickinson, David L. - 2026

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Nighttime ethics : do moral choices differ by time-of-day/night?

Dickinson, David L. - 2026

We examine time-of-day (TOD) effects on moral choice by comparing afternoon (DAY: 3pm-5pm) and nighttime (NIGHT: 3am-5am) decisions across three incentivized tasks. While the NIGHT treatment successfully induced sleepiness, we report no evidence that circadian suboptimality shifts decisions...

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Dickinson, David L. - 2026

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Unravelling the complexity of ethical leadership and decision making in educational contexts

Fernandes, Venesser - 2026

This paper explores the complex nature of ethical leadership and decision-making in educational settings by reviewing the learning content of a master's subject in an educational leadership course. The paper focuses on how effective ethical leadership requires a multidimensional,...

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Death technologies and digital afterlife : an ethical perspective

Hermann, Erik; Belk, Russell W.; Lima, Vitor - 2026

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A model of moral balancing under motivated reasoning

Flörchinger, Daniela - 2026

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Political economy with a normative purpose : James M. Buchanan's contractarian-constitutionalist research program

Vanberg, Viktor - 2026

This paper summarizes the core tenets of James M. Buchanan’s research program, its contractarianism, dealing with the source from which political orders are to derive their legitimacy, and its contractarianism, specifying the requirements for a political order to operate for the mutual...

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Towards an ethical chocolate supply chain : matching Swiss consumer preferences with policy instruments

Rudolf, Max; Olschewski, Roland - 2026

The chocolate supply chain exemplifies the social and environmental challenges within global food systems. Growing awareness of environmental impact and ethical production practices is increasingly shaping consumer choices and influencing food policy. This highlights the need for an integrated...

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Sentient dignity and the plausible inclusion of animals

Perry, Matthew Wray - 2026

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