A longitudinal study of 308 white-collar U.S. employees revealed that feelings of hope and gratitude increase concern … for corporate social responsibility (CSR). In particular, employees with stronger hope and gratitude were found to have a … greater sense of responsibility toward employee and societal issues; interestingly, employee hope and gratitude did not affect …

vulnerable in ways that take advantage of their vulnerability. Although Brenkert does highlight the fact that the specially …

This paper examines the role of vulnerability in the basis of business ethics by criticizing its role in giving a moral … theory. Rather than proceed to support the stakeholder paradigm, a conception of vulnerability is combined with Heath …

Across the management, social science, and business ethics literatures, and in much of the philosophy literature, trust … risks involved. This characterization of trust is best thought of as epistemological because epistemic states distinguish … trust from other dispositions. The epistemological characterization of trust is the amoral one referred to in the title of …

negotiation to test how three dimensions of social context—dyadic gender composition, negotiation strategy, and trust—interact to … influence one micro-ethical decision, the use of deception. Deception in all-male dyads was relatively unaffected by trust or … forms of trust (identity, benevolent, deterrent) were low and opponents used an accommodating strategy. However, in all …

-based trust influenced deception when negotiators experience fit between power and regulatory focus, whereas affect-based trust … and regulatory focus was tied to a specific subcomponent of trust, we further conclude that negotiators engage in …

predict brand trust and purchase intention, and that brand trust mediated the interactive effect of brand familiarity and … disclaimer speed on purchase intention. Our results indicate that fast disclaimers actually reduce brand trust and purchase … disclaimers for unfamiliar brands. Conversely, disclaimer speed had no negative effects on brand trust and purchase intention for …

negatively affected by perceived risk and eroding trust, and (3) how others interpret and respond to reduced transparency. As … how eroding trust conditions lead to only summary record-keeping and delayed reporting. In turn, diminished accountability … further undermined trust. Our findings have implications for further research in this area as well as for contemporary cases …

In this paper, we investigate the trust-based mechanisms underlying the relationship between ethical leadership and … supervisors, we find that ethical leadership leads to higher levels of both affective and cognitive trust. In addition, we find … support for a three-path mediational model, where cognitive trust and affective trust, in turn, mediate the relationship …