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A selection of interesting articles we came across recently covering international perspectives on ethics and CSR. Global ethical values in the public relations industry (worldwide) Globalization has the potential to create a network society where “there is a common cultural code of values that forms the glue of the network” …. This article explores if common cultural codes of values are emerging in the public relations industry by examining the codes of ethics of 41 [...]

A selection of interesting articles we came across recently on ethical decision-making. Mixed emotions in unethical decision making Although prior work on ethical decision-making has examined the direct impact of magnitude of consequences as well as the direct impact of emotions on ethical judgments, the current research examines the interaction of these two constructs. Building on previous research finding disgust to have a varying impact on ethical judgments depending on the specific behavior being evaluated, [...]

A selection of interesting articles we came across recently on values, virtues and religion in sustainability. Balanced organisational values? Theories of organisation and management have offered several concepts and models, which indicate that organizational values are an important factor for running organizations successfully. A still unexplained question concerns the creation of balanced organizational values, which can support the achievement of several different and even conflicting goals of modern organisations. To explore balanced organizational values in [...]

A selection of interesting articles we came across recently on ethical leadership performance. Doing well by doing good? Silke Eisenbeiss, Daan van Knippenberg and Clemens Fahrbach note that business ethics and firm economic performance have traditionally often been regarded as mutually exclusive ends. They challenge this “either-or” belief and analyse when, and how, ethical leadership and firm performance may harmonize well. In extension of earlier research on ethical leadership and performance at the individual and [...]

A selection of interesting articles we came across recently on stakeholders and sustainability. What do you do if you can’t involve stakeholders in accounting & management? According to Anselm Schneider, in order to enable firms to successfully deal with issues of corporate sustainability, the firms' stakeholders would need to participate in sustainability accounting and management. In practice, however, participative sustainability accounting and management are often unfeasible. The resulting consequence is the risk of misbalancing single aspects of [...]

A selection of interesting articles we found recently on leadership styles. Is there really a difference between empowering and laissez-faire leadership? Not as much as originally thought, according to Sut Humborstad and Steffen Giessner’s research. Empowering leadership and laissez-faire leadership are generally thought to represent quite different leadership styles—the former more active and directed in follower development and the latter more passive and dismissive of followers’ needs. The present study questions this sharp differentiation. Building on leader [...]

A selection of interesting articles we found recently on the ethics of finance professionals. Was the GFC the fault of finance professionals’ values? André van Hoorn gives us a wake up call with this article. The idea that the ethical values of professionals in finance (PIFs) (e.g., stockbrokers and fund managers) have played a role in the global financial crisis (GFC) is widespread. The crisis-of-ethics debate is important, concerning one of the main policy challenges [...]

A selection of interesting articles we found recently on individual and corporate morality. Do individual and corporate moral responsibility interact? Yes, according to Mihaela Constantinescu and Muel Kaptein, who note that moral responsibility for outcomes in corporate settings can be ascribed either to the individual members, the corporation, or both. In the latter case, the relationship between individual and corporate responsibility has been approached as inversely proportional, such that an increase in individual responsibility leads [...]

A selection of interesting articles we found recently on women and corporate behaviour. Is capitalism good for women? Ann Cudd asks whether capitalism is good for women. She investigates an aspect of the question of whether capitalism can be defended as a morally legitimate economic system by asking whether capitalism serves progressive, feminist ends of freedom and gender equality. She argue that although capitalism is subject to critique for increasing economic inequality, it can be [...]