Research Tidbits

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently - what influences corporate social responsibility (CSR) and what does CSR influence? What do we know about CSR? Review and Research Agenda Herman Aguinis and Ante Glavas review the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature based on 588 journal articles and 102 books and book chapters, as the rest of this abstract shows. They offer a multilevel and multidisciplinary theoretical framework that synthesizes and integrates the [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently. When organisations don’t walk their talk by decoupling ethics programs Tammy MacLean and her colleagues conducted research that illustrates dangers inherent in the gap created when organisations decouple ethics program adoption from implementation. Using a sample of 182 professionals in the pharmaceutical and financial services industries, they examined the relationship between structural decoupling of formal ethics programs and individual-level perceptions and behaviour. Findings strongly support [...]

This week’s research tidbits are LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY’S most downloaded papers during 2014. Note that many of these papers have to do with ethical leadership and some were written quite a few years ago. Leadership theory and research in the new millennium: Current theoretical trends and changing perspectives. Jessica E. Dinh, Robert G. Lord, William L. Gardner, Jeremy D. Meuser, Robert C. Liden & Jinyu Hu. Abstract: Scholarly research on the topic of leadership has witnessed [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on education and sustainability. Does business ethics education work differently for men and women? Yes, according to Liz Wang and Lisa Calvano, who note that some scholars have questioned the effectiveness of business ethics education and that research results have been mixed. However, studies yield interesting results regarding certain factors that influence the ethicality of business students and may impact the effectiveness of business ethics [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on sustainability practices. Are Triple Bottom Line firms going over old or breaking new ground? Ante Glavas and Jenny Mish investigation this question. Supported by a qualitative study of triple bottom line (TBL) firms—those that simultaneously prioritize economic, social, and environmental objectives—they investigated the market logic and practices of TBL firms to better understand how they fulfill their mission and achieve their goals. The authors [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on gender and ethical leadership. CEO gender, ethical leadership, and accounting conservatism Simon Ho and his colleagues note that since male CEOs dominate corporate leadership, the literature on top management decision making suffers from an implicit masculine bias. Although research indicates that males and females are biologically and psychologically different, the leadership characteristics of female CEOs are largely unexplored. Two of these characteristics, risk aversion [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on the morality of corporations. A framework for analysing tensions in the economic, environmental and social dimensions of corporate sustainability In this paper, Tobias Hahn, Jonatan Pinkse, Lutz Preuss and Frank Figge propose a systematic framework for the analysis of tensions in corporate sustainability. The framework is based on the emerging integrative view on corporate sustainability, which stresses the need for a simultaneous integration of [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on HRM and ethical behaviour. Ethical leadership influences workplace engagement as well as misbehaviour Ozgur Demirtas notes that while a number of studies are being done on ethical leadership, little is known about the role of ethical ideology and organisational justice in the relationship between ethical leadership behaviour and individual behaviours such as work engagement and organisational misbehaviour, which has tended to be neglected in [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on entrepreneurial decision making. What do we know about entrepreneurial decision making? Dean Shepherd and his colleagues point out that judgment and decision-making research has a long tradition in management and represents a substantial stream of research in entrepreneurship. Despite numerous reviews of this topic in the organisational behaviour, psychology, and marketing fields, reviews in the field of entrepreneurship are lacking. This absence is surprising [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on SMEs and Sustainable Leadership practices. Social and environmental performance in SMEs Richard Arend analysed survey data of US small- and medium-sized enterprises, asking how these entrepreneurial ventures can build a competitive advantage with their social and environmental practices. He focused on several firm characteristics and choices involving motivations and capabilities. Arend found that an orientation to, commitments to, and dynamic flexibility in, the firm’s CSR [...]