Peter Seele

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Peter Seele is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Information Systems and Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Seele has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Strategy and Management, 24 papers in Information Systems and Management and 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Seele's work include Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (25 papers), Ethics in Business and Education (23 papers) and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (12 papers). Peter Seele is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (25 papers), Ethics in Business and Education (23 papers) and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (12 papers). Peter Seele collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and Germany. Peter Seele's co-authors include Lucia Gatti, Irina Lock, Claus Dierksmeier, Marta Pizzetti, Mario D. Schultz, Lars Rademacher, Markus Ulrich, Bertil Cottier, Reto Hofstetter and Georg von Schnurbein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Peter Seele

73 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Greenwashing Revisited: In Search of a Typology and Accus... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2018 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Greenwashing Revisited: In Search of a Typology and Accusation‐Based Definition Incorporating Legitimacy Strategies
    2015 371 citations Peter Seele, Lucia Gatti Business Strategy and the Environment profile →
  2. Education for sustainable development through business simulation games: An exploratory study of sustainability gamification and its effects on students' learning outcomes
    2018 168 citations Lucia Gatti, Peter Seele et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Seele Switzerland 29 1.7k 1.2k 450 332 326 80 3.1k
Patrick Spieth Germany 32 1.8k 1.1× 950 0.8× 505 1.1× 289 0.9× 186 0.6× 70 3.3k
Mark Anthony Camilleri Malta 35 1.2k 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 1.1k 2.4× 556 1.7× 265 0.8× 155 3.8k
Abdul-Nasser El-Kassar Lebanon 19 1.6k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 479 1.1× 248 0.7× 164 0.5× 66 3.5k
Thijs Broekhuizen Netherlands 18 1.3k 0.7× 696 0.6× 579 1.3× 288 0.9× 228 0.7× 40 3.4k
Rosanna Garcia United States 19 1.7k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 604 1.3× 359 1.1× 174 0.5× 34 3.7k
Armando Papa Italy 34 2.0k 1.2× 827 0.7× 633 1.4× 461 1.4× 281 0.9× 98 4.3k
Noor Hazlina Ahmad Malaysia 32 1.1k 0.6× 823 0.7× 321 0.7× 279 0.8× 309 0.9× 145 3.2k
Veronica Scuotto Italy 38 2.1k 1.3× 869 0.7× 754 1.7× 423 1.3× 263 0.8× 87 4.5k
Abhi Bhattacharya United States 9 1.1k 0.7× 575 0.5× 386 0.9× 197 0.6× 234 0.7× 20 2.9k
Iván Montiel United States 21 2.0k 1.2× 1.6k 1.3× 267 0.6× 171 0.5× 258 0.8× 46 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Seele

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Seele

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schultz, Mario D., et al.. (2024). Digital ethicswashing: a systematic review and a process-perception-outcome framework. AI and Ethics. 5(2). 805–818. 10 indexed citations
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Schultz, Mario D., et al.. (2024). Algorithms and Dehumanization: A Definition and Avoidance Model. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Seele, Peter, et al.. (2023). The contested role of AI ethics boards in smart societies: a step towards improvement based on board composition by sortition. Ethics and Information Technology. 25(4). 4 indexed citations
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Schultz, Mario D., et al.. (2023). Corporate Legitimacy via Digital Ethicswashing? A Systematic Review on Misleading AI Communication. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2023(1). 1 indexed citations
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Schultz, Mario D., et al.. (2022). Anthropomorphization and beyond: conceptualizing humanwashing of AI-enabled machines. AI & Society. 39(2). 789–795. 10 indexed citations
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Helbing, Dirk, Thomas Beschorner, Bruno S. Frey, et al.. (2021). Triage 4.0: On Death Algorithms and Technological Selection. Is Today’s Data- Driven Medical System Still Compatible with the Constitution?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(1). 1989243–1989243. 2 indexed citations
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Gatti, Lucia, Marta Pizzetti, & Peter Seele. (2021). Green lies and their effect on intention to invest. Journal of Business Research. 127. 228–240. 140 indexed citations
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Seele, Peter, et al.. (2019). Conceptualizing the “Corporate Nervous Net”: Decentralized Strategic Communication Based on a Digital Reporting Indicator Framework. International Journal of Strategic Communication. 13(5). 418–432. 10 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina & Peter Seele. (2017). Politicized CSR: How corporate political activity (mis‐)uses political CSR. Journal of Public Affairs. 18(3). 29 indexed citations
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Lock, Irina & Peter Seele. (2017). The Consequences of Astroturf Lobbying for Trust and Authenticity. Findings and Implications from an Experiment. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 2(1). 30–52. 4 indexed citations
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Seele, Peter, et al.. (2016). Greenwashing in Islamic Finance? An analysis of Islamic private banks' non-financial reports and a proposal for an Islamic finance reporting initiative standard. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 3(2). 3. 1 indexed citations
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Seele, Peter & Marc Chesney. (2016). Toxic sustainable companies: a critique on the shortcomings of current corporate sustainability ratings and a definition of ‘financial toxicity’. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment. 7(2). 139–146. 2 indexed citations
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Dierksmeier, Claus & Peter Seele. (2016). Cryptocurrencies and Business Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics. 152(1). 1–14. 155 indexed citations
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Seele, Peter & Lucia Gatti. (2015). Greenwashing Revisited: In Search of a Typology and Accusation‐Based Definition Incorporating Legitimacy Strategies. Business Strategy and the Environment. 26(2). 239–252. 371 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pizzetti, Marta, Peter Seele, & Michael Gibbert. (2015). Experimental evidence of unethical gift reconstruction in consumer moral reasoning. reroDoc Digital Library. 1 indexed citations
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Seele, Peter, et al.. (2013). An analysis of sovereign wealth and pension funds' ethical investment guidelines and their commitment thereto. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment. 3(3). 264–282. 10 indexed citations

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