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Research tidbits: Morality, ethics and self-sanctioning
Our latest pick on interesting articles covering morality and ethics. The exposed self: A multilevel model of shame and ethical behaviour In this article, Murphy and Kiffin-Petersen review the shame and ethical behaviour literature in order to more fully develop theory and testable propositions for organisational scholars focusing on the behavioural implications of this ‘moral’ emotion. The authors propose a dual pathway multilevel model that incorporates complex relationships between felt and anticipatory shame processes and ethical behaviour, both within and between persons and at the collective level. Murphy [...]
Research tidbits: Auditing and ethics
A few articles dealing with ethics in accounting practices. Regulation and the promotion of audit ethics: analysis of the content of the EU’s policy Accounting literature has commonly judged the impact of regulation on auditors’ ethical commitment by studying daily audit practice. The authors argue that the content of the regulations themselves is an important determinant of such an impact. This paper evaluates the capacity of the content of regulation to promote audit ethics by reference to the European [...]
Research tidbits: Making ethical decisions
Our selection of useful reading on making ethical decisions in business. Ethical decision-making theory: an integrated approach Ethical decision-making (EDM) descriptive theoretical models often conflict with each other and typically lack comprehensiveness. To address this deficiency, a revised EDM model is proposed that consolidates and attempts to bridge together the varying and sometimes directly conflicting propositions and perspectives that have been advanced. To do so, the paper is organized as follows: First, a review of [...]
Research tidbits: Leader characteristics
Some interesting articles we've been reading on leadership characteristics: Ethical leadership: A meta-analytic review A growing body of research suggests that follower perceptions of ethical leadership are associated with beneficial follower outcomes. However, some empirical researchers have found contradictory results. In this study, Bedi and colleagues use social learning and social exchange theories to test the relationship between ethical leadership and follower work outcomes. Results suggest that ethical leadership is related positively to numerous follower [...]
Research tidbits: The dark side of leadership
Here’s our latest pick of interesting articles considering the darker side of leadership. Workplace Bullying: Considering the Interaction Between Individual and Work Environment There has been increased interest in the “dark side” of organisational behaviour in recent decades. Workplace bullying, in particular, has received growing attention in the social sciences literature. However, this literature has lacked an integrated approach. More specifically, few studies have investigated causes at levels beyond the individual, such as the group [...]
Research tidbits: Stakeholder trust
Here’s our latest pick of interesting articles covering stakeholder trust. Is fair treatment enough? Fairness and stakeholder behaviour Fairness and justice are core issues in stakeholder theory. Although such considerations receive more attention in the ‘normative’ branch of the stakeholder literature, they have critical implications for ‘instrumental’ stakeholder theory as well. In research in the instrumental vein, although the position has seldom been articulated in significant detail, a stakeholder’s inclination to take action against the [...]
Research tidbits: Moral values in leadership
Here’s our latest pick of interesting articles covering moral values in leadership. How proximity affects moral reasoning Wildermuth, De Mello e Souza and Kozitza report the results of an experiment designed to determine the effects of psychological proximity—proxied by awareness of pain (empathy) and friendship—on moral reasoning. Their study tests the hypotheses that a moral agent’s emphasis on justice decreases with proximity, while his/her emphasis on care increases. The study further examines how personality, [...]
Research tidbits: Culture and business
Here's our latest pick of interesting articles covering international differences in the business context. Overview of Hofstede-inspired country-level culture research since 2006 Kirkman, Lowe, & Gibson’s (2006) JIBS article summarized and critiqued international business research inspired by the most cited book in the field, Hofstede’s 1980 Culture’s Consequences: International differences in work-related values (Hofstede [1980]2001). They identified a number of issues in this research and offered several recommendations for improving it in the future, thus laying [...]
Research tidbits: When stakeholders take action
A selection of interesting articles we found recently considering what pushes stakeholders to take action. What mobilises stakeholders to take action against the firm? Although the possibility that a firm’s stakeholders may take damaging measures against it in response to its activities has been an underlying assumption of stakeholder theory from inception, the conditions that predispose stakeholders to act against firms remain largely unexplored in the literature. Based on work in equity theory, expectancy theory, [...]