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View article: Digital ethicswashing: a systematic review and a process-perception-outcome framework
Digital ethicswashing: a systematic review and a process-perception-outcome framework Open
The term “ethicswashing” was recently coined to describe the phenomenon of instrumentalising ethics by misleading communication, creating the impression of ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI), while no substantive ethical theory, argument…
View article: Managing Sustainable Luxury and Digitalization
Managing Sustainable Luxury and Digitalization Open
This book offers new transdisciplinary perspectives on luxury, exploring the topical phenomenon of digitally retouched (censored) and blockchain-secured (sensored) luxury watches and outlining implications that emerge for the field of luxu…
View article: The Internet of Trees and Networked Surveillance
The Internet of Trees and Networked Surveillance Open
In this chapter, we discuss pro-social digital surveillance that aims to protect and increase the resilience of tree populations to counter grand challenges. After a brief outline of grand challenges, we introduce the concepts of surveilla…
View article: Gestalt-Switch of Luxury Products: Exploring Pitfalls of Inconsistent Value Expressions in Conspicuous Consumption
Gestalt-Switch of Luxury Products: Exploring Pitfalls of Inconsistent Value Expressions in Conspicuous Consumption Open
This study explores the ethicality of displaying luxury items in social interactions, integrating conspicuous consumption theory and functional theories of attitudes. We conceptualize the phenomenon of changing ethical perceptions (gestalt…
View article: Anthropomorphization and beyond: conceptualizing humanwashing of AI-enabled machines
Anthropomorphization and beyond: conceptualizing humanwashing of AI-enabled machines Open
The complex relationships between humans and AI-empowered machines have created and inspired new products and services as well as controversial debates, fiction and entertainment, and last but not least, a striving and vital field of resea…
View article: Towards AI ethics’ institutionalization: knowledge bridges from business ethics to advance organizational AI ethics
Towards AI ethics’ institutionalization: knowledge bridges from business ethics to advance organizational AI ethics Open
This paper proposes to generate awareness for developing Artificial intelligence (AI) ethics by transferring knowledge from other fields of applied ethics, particularly from business ethics, stressing the role of organizations and processe…
View article: From Greenwashing to Machinewashing: A Model and Future Directions Derived from Reasoning by Analogy
From Greenwashing to Machinewashing: A Model and Future Directions Derived from Reasoning by Analogy Open
This article proposes a conceptual mapping to outline salient properties and relations that allow for a knowledge transfer from the well-established greenwashing phenomenon to the more recent machinewashing. We account for relevant dissimi…
View article: "<i>Some of my Customers […] Take off Their Rolex Prior to a Client Meeting</i>" Luxury Display at Work and the Social (Re)Construction of the Organizational Image
"<i>Some of my Customers […] Take off Their Rolex Prior to a Client Meeting</i>" Luxury Display at Work and the Social (Re)Construction of the Organizational Image Open
In this study, we follow-up on the social construction of an organizational image focusing on the role of luxury watches worn at work. In this way, we discuss the crucial role of employees' aesthetic appearance as a projector of organizati…
View article: Mapping the Ethicality of Algorithmic Pricing: A Review of Dynamic and Personalized Pricing
Mapping the Ethicality of Algorithmic Pricing: A Review of Dynamic and Personalized Pricing Open
Firms increasingly deploy algorithmic pricing approaches to determine what to charge for their goods and services. Algorithmic pricing can discriminate prices both dynamically over time and personally depending on individual consumer infor…