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Publication date: 17 June 2024

Lixin Chen and Suchuan Zhang

This paper aims to investigate how perpetrators who engage in unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) feel and respond in the aftermath of such behavior.

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Purpose

This paper aims to investigate how perpetrators who engage in unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) feel and respond in the aftermath of such behavior.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper used a two-wave time-lagged design and collected data from 260 full-time employees working in different industries in China.

Findings

The results indicated that UPB was negatively and indirectly associated with internal whistle-blowing through shame. Perceived moral leadership weakened the effect of shame on internal whistle-blowing.

Originality/value

Based on affective events theory, this paper explored an integrated behavior-emotion-behavior sequence. This paper proposed that the negative emotion, shame, evoked by UPB subsequently influences the extent to which UPB perpetrators engage in internal whistle-blowing.

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Chinese Management Studies, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1750-614X

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