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Management and Organization Review
 
Special Issue on 'Behavioral Ethics, Organizational Justice, 
and Social Responsibility across Contexts'
 
 
Guest Editors:
 
Deborah E. Rupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
 
Patrick M. Wright, Cornell University, US
 
Samuel Aryee, Aston University, UK
 
Yadong Luo, University of Miami, US
 
Open for Submissions: September 1, 2011
 
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2011
 
 
The management literature is witnessing an intersection of research on
organizational justice, behavioral ethics, and corporate social
responsibility (CSR). Organizational justice deals with how fairly
employees feel they are treated by the various stakeholders with whom
they interact. This includes perception formation, the cognitive and
emotional processing of events, attitudinal and behavioral reactions to
perceived mistreatment, and the formation of justice climates within
workgroups and organizations. Behavioral ethics considers those
interactions between individual behavior and social contexts that
involve morality-based social prescriptions and moral norms. CSR refers
to firm activities that serve the social good and are beyond both the
interest of the firm and what the law requires. Whereas these topics
differ in terms of perspective and level of analysis (i.e., justice
often deals with the self, behavioral ethics often deals with the
context for justice and the behavior of potential transgressors, and CSR
involves the actions of firms), what brings these topics together is a
focus on fairness, individual rights, and morality-based (as opposed to
profit-based) decisions. Research that integrates these themes has
involved collaborations between micro and macro OB, psychology,
sociology, political science, law, behavioral economics, business
ethics, and philosophy. As such, we see topics such as morality, social
norms, decision-making, social influence, motivation, whistle-blowing,
deviance, governance, and business ethics being studied in new ways and
through new lenses. 
In parallel to these research advances are changes in business practices
worldwide. The movement of ethics and corporate social responsibility to
the forefront of global business practice signals fundamental changes in
the way businesses interact with their stakeholders (e.g., employees,
customers, local communities, and the larger society). Despite the
global nature of this trend, many of these business practices have been
driven by theories and research stemming from a Western context. Because
responses to justice, behavioral ethics, and social responsibility
cannot be meaningfully understood without reference to the social,
cultural, and institutional contexts, this special issue seeks to
showcase current and integrative research that highlights varying
cultural perspectives within the justice, ethics, and CSR domains as
well as the role of context on these issues. 
Potential Research Topics
Both conceptual and empirical papers are welcome. Particularly welcome
are papers that provide contextually informed extensions to Western
theories. We also invite papers that take a Chinese perspective. Papers
do not necessarily have to bridge the various topics mentioned in this
call, however, the special issue will seek to present a balance of
perspectives, levels of analysis, and methods across the papers
featured. Particular topics might include (but are in no way limited
to):
a)      Justice and emotion
b)      How organizational justice is managed across cultures
c)      Moral motivation, moral awareness, and/or moral disengagement 
d)     Ethical decision frameworks
e)      Neurobiological approaches to behavioral ethics
f)       Individual differences in ethical behavior
g)      Consequences of ethical and unethical behavior across diverse
contexts
h)      Justice climate
i)        Global business ethics
j)        How relationship-oriented societies address issues of fairness
and behavioral ethics compared to other societies.
k)      China's adoption of the 2006 Harmonious Society Policy and the
resultant changes in the balance between economic and social performance
of firms in that region
l)        The roles of indigenous CSR practices on societal values and
vice versa
 
Questions about the special issue should be directed to any of the guest
editors:  Deborah E. Rupp ([log in to unmask]), Patrick M. Wright (
[log in to unmask]), Samuel Aryee ([log in to unmask]), or
Yadong Luo ([log in to unmask]). You are encouraged to submit your
tentative topics to the guest editors for feedback in the early stage
when conducting your studies or preparing your manuscripts. Papers for
the special issue should be submitted electronically through MOR's
ScholarOne Manuscripts site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mor
<http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mor>  and identified as submissions to
the 'Behavioral Ethics, Organizational Justice, and Social
Responsibility' special issue. All submissions should follow the 'MOR
Submission Guidelines', which are available on the MOR webpage (
http://www.iacmr.org <http://www.iacmr.org> ). Papers will be
double-blind peer reviewed and acceptance decisions will be based on the
peer reviews and the standards described in the MOR mission statement.
Guest Editors
            Deborah E. Rupp is an associate professor of
Labor/Employment Relations, Psychology, and Law at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She conducts research on organizational
justice, behavioral ethics, corporate social responsibility, and the
emotion regulation of individuals at work. She is also known for her
work on the assessment center method, its use for training and
development, and the role of technology in facilitating remote and
cross-cultural behavioral assessment. She is currently an associate
editor at the Journal of Management and serves on the editorial boards
of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of
Organizational Behavior.  
Patrick M. Wright is the William J. Conaty GE Professor of Strategic
Human Resources in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at
Cornell University. His research interests include Strategic Human
Resource Management, how firms create competitive advantage through
people, the impact of HR practices on firm performance, the HR
function's role in creating competitive advantage. He currently serves
on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology, Human Resource
Management Review, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of
Managerial Issues, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management,
Journal of Management Studies, and International Journal of Strategic
Change Management,
Samuel Aryee is professor and director of Research Degrees Programme at
Aston Business School, Aston University. His research interests include
organizational justice, employee-organization relationship, power and
politics, and counterproductive workplace behavior. He serves as
Associate Editor for Human Relations and also serves on the editorial
boards of Academy of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal
of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management Studies, and
Management and Organization Review.
Yadong Luo is the Emery M. Findley Distinguished Chair and Professor of
Management at the University of Miami, where he served as Chairman of
Management Department. He has authored over a dozen books, over a
hundred refereed journal articles. His recent research focuses on
international management, global strategy, and business in emerging
economies. He is currently an editor of Journal of World Business,
consulting editor of Journal of International Business Studies, and
senior editor of Management and Organization Review.
 

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