Purpose – Building on the work of Carroll this article attempts to unravel, explore and explain corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a theoretical construct that has implications and consequences for corporate governance in particular, and more generally for the economy, business and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify what ethical framework(s) small business managers use in making decisions, and whether they differ from those drawn on by the wider community? Design/methodology/approach – A scale for managerial ethical decision‐making has been used,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to map the different moral positions articulated by small business owners in relation to social responsibility (SR) commitment and practice. Design/methodology/approach – This qualitative study utilized collaborative action research with 25 small...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate students’ perceptions of studying ethics in a business management degree. Design/methodology/approach – The method used is qualitative design with some quantitative elements. Data were collected through an anonymous survey with 119...

Purpose – This paper seeks to emphasise the importance of firms being responsible to society. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines firms' omissions and commissions in the various functional areas of management while they focused on profit. Examples of such omissions and...

Purpose – It has always been claimed that business ethics are ambiguous and thus hard to define. As such, with recognizable unethical corporate behaviors as an epidemic, it is hard to hold perpetrators accountable. Even more detrimental are the miscommunication, the misunderstanding, the...

Purpose – This paper aims to elucidate some of the arguments against egoism in the current debate, as well as to create some new arguments, or rather objections (epistemological and ontological from the position of egoism as moral solipsism), and to explicate some arguments against egoism...

Purpose – In the light of major corporate failures worldwide, business ethics have become an increasingly important area of managerial competence and responsibility. Most studies on business ethics in general and the work ethic in particular have been based on the experiences of Western...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that in many earlier value studies, the emphasis has been in value management: this paper contributes to the value discussion through personnel perceptions in organizations (in different hierarchical levels). The aim is to study value processing...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the approach to the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Poland. It also intends to characterize the process of the implementation of its assumptions subject to Polish economic conditions. At the same time, it aims to pay special...