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We are very pleased to announce the following call for papers and look forward to receiving your submissions!

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Call for Papers:

SPECIAL ISSUE ON BEHAVIORAL ETHICS IN ORGANIZATIONS

A PDF version of this call is available at:  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597811000768

Guest Co-editors:  Maureen L. Ambrose (University of Central Florida), Scott J. Reynolds (University of Washington), Marshall Schminke (University of Central Florida)

Submission Starts: June 1, 2012

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012

Ethics has emerged as one of the most critical issues facing organizations and the people who work in them. Ethics scandals plague not only business organizations, but those with political, religious, athletic, environmental, and social goals as well. Scholarly interest in ethical issues has grown in recent years, with numerous new branches sprouting from the traditional "business ethics"' tree. Fields of inquiry as diverse as behavioral economics and experimental philosophy have begun to explore the causes and consequences of ethical-and unethical-behavior. One especially promising movement has been labeled ''behavioral ethics,'' an area of inquiry aimed at explaining individual behavior that is subject to or judged according to generally accepted moral norms or social prescriptions. The behavioral ethics movement enjoys robust momentum, embracing issues as varied as moral awareness, moral reasoning, ethical decision making, moral identity, moral emotion, moral motivation, ethical leadership, moral exclusion, the moral context of organizations (such as climate, culture, structure, and teams), and evolutionary and biological perspectives on morality, just to name a few. Behavioral ethics research explores both ethical decision making and ethical behavior. It thus provides a conceptual ''big tent'' under which scholars from organizational studies, psychology, social psychology, sociology, economics, and other disciplines bring their skills to bear on the problem of better understanding where ethical and unethical behavior come from, and the impact they have on those involved.

The goal of this special issue is to attract and publish exemplary behavioral ethics research. The focus of the issue is on empirical research aimed at advancing our understanding of behavioral ethics, as it relates to organizational behavior and decision making. The issue seeks papers designed to push behavioral ethics research into next-generation insights. Incremental extensions of existing research are unlikely to be successful. Rather, the issue will be composed of papers that advance the field, either by exploring new phenomena, new theory, or integrating existing work in a manner that creates substantially new insights for scholars in the area. Possible questions to be addressed by papers in the issue include, but are not limited to:

·        What is the role of deception in organizational communication?

·        What are the sources of workplace cheating?

·        How do consumers respond to, and deal with, unethical actions on the part of organizations?

·        How does the impact of ethically supportive supervisors vary across organizational levels?

·        What effect does the nature of the work itself (e.g., task interdependence, routinization) have on ethical behavior?

·        Beyond its interactive effect with moral reasoning, what other impact does moral emotion have on organizational behavior?

·        What role does moral courage play in eliciting ethical behavior?

·        What is the relative impact of individual, organizational, and institutional influences on ethical behavior?

·        What role do workgroup factors (e.g., personality composition of the group, group leadership, conformity and deviance) play in ethical behavior?

·        How can network analysis inform our understanding of organizational ethics?

·        How might organizations most effectively recover from ethical failure?

These questions are intended only as points for thinking about next-generation research in business ethics.

Instructions for preparing manuscripts are provided in: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/obhdp/authorinstructions.

Manuscripts should be submitted on-line at: http://ees.elsevier.com/obhdp/

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2012. Submissions will be accepted beginning June 1, 2012.

Questions about the special issue can be directed to any of the guest co-editors: Maureen Ambrose (mambrose@bus.ucf.edu), Scott Reynolds (heyscott@u.washington.edu), Marshall Schminke (mschminke@bus.ucf.edu), or the Editor of OBHDP Xiao-Ping Chen (xpchen@uw.edu)

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Scott J. Reynolds
Associate Professor of Business Ethics
Helen Moore Gerhardt Faculty Fellow
Michael G. Foster School of Business
University of Washington
550 PACCAR Hall
Box 353226
Seattle, WA  98195-3226
206-543-4452 (office)
206-543-3968 (fax)
heyscott@uw.edu
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