University of Tilburg
Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Department of Economics
+31 (0)13 466 2707
j.j.graafland@tilburguniversity.edu
Johan Graafland has been full professor in Economics, Business and Ethics at Tilburg University since 2000. He is an economist and theologian who specializes in the philosophy of economics, economic ethics, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and the religion and economics debate. He has published widely in these areas in many international journals, including:

  • Business & Society
  • Business Ethics Quarterly
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Business Ethics: A European Review
  • Journal of Corporate Citizenship
  • Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik
  • Journal of Public Economics

He has written two volumes on markets and ethics:

During 2010-2013 he conducted a major research project into Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe on behalf of the European Union, in which 13,500 companies from 12 European countries provided data for a large survey developed by prof. Graafland. Recently, Graafland has written several articles on Calvin, economics and the credit crisis, on Aristotle’s and Adam Smith’s virtue ethics in relation to markets, and on MacIntyre’s virtue ethics and professional ethics in the financial sector. Prof. Graafland is currently editor of the section on Adam Smith in the Handbook on Virtue Ethics in Business and Management (to be published in 2015 by Springer). In 2014 Graafland published an article on the relationship between economic freedom, trust, GPD and happiness in the Journal of Happiness Studies.

Deelproject(en) in het Goede Markten Project

Selection of Publications

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Corporate Social Responsibility and SMEs: Impacts and Institutional Drivers

Graafland, Johan

Corporate Social Responsibility and SMEs: Impacts and Institutional Drivers Book

Routledge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 2021, ISBN: 9781032106724.

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Ethics and Economics: An Introduction to Free Markets, Equality and Happiness

Graafland, Johan

Ethics and Economics: An Introduction to Free Markets, Equality and Happiness Book

Routledge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 2021.

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Free-Market, Perfect Market and Welfare State Perspectives on “Good” Markets: an Empirical Test

Graafland, Johan; Verbruggen, Harmen

Free-Market, Perfect Market and Welfare State Perspectives on “Good” Markets: an Empirical Test Journal Article

In: Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2021.

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Crowding In or Crowding Out? How Non-Governmental Organizations and Media Influence Intrinsic Motivations toward Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility

Graafland, Johan; de Bakker, Frank G. A.

Crowding In or Crowding Out? How Non-Governmental Organizations and Media Influence Intrinsic Motivations toward Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility Journal Article

In: Environmental Planning Management, 2021.

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Who Becomes Unhappy when Income Inequality Increases?

Lous, Bjorn; Graafland, Johan

Who Becomes Unhappy when Income Inequality Increases? Journal Article

In: Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2021.

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Vrijemarktinstituties, deugden en maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen

Graafland, Johan

Vrijemarktinstituties, deugden en maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen Journal Article

In: Management & Organisatie, vol. 2020, no. 2/3, pp. 36-47, 2020.

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In Adam Smith’s Own Words: The Role of Virtues in the Relationship Between Free Market Economies and Societal Flourishing, A Semantic Network Data‑Mining Approach

Graafland, Johan; Wells, Thomas

In Adam Smith’s Own Words: The Role of Virtues in the Relationship Between Free Market Economies and Societal Flourishing, A Semantic Network Data‑Mining Approach Journal Article

In: Journal of Business Ethics, 2020.

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Culture and institutions: How economic freedom and long-term orientation interactively influence corporate social responsibility

Graafland, Johan; Noorderhaven, Niels

Culture and institutions: How economic freedom and long-term orientation interactively influence corporate social responsibility Journal Article

In: Journal of International Business Studies, 2020.

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When Does Economic Freedom Promote Well Being? On the Moderating Role of Long-Term Orientation

Graafland, Johan

When Does Economic Freedom Promote Well Being? On the Moderating Role of Long-Term Orientation Journal Article

In: Social Indicators Research, 2019, ISSN: 1573-0921.

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Contingencies in the relationship between economic freedom and human development: the role of generalized trust

Graafland, Johan

Contingencies in the relationship between economic freedom and human development: the role of generalized trust Journal Article

In: Journal of Institutional Economics, pp. 1–16, 2019.

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