There is increasing discussion within the communication industry about benchmarking and best practice. The concepts, derived from manufacturing industry, are now being used to compare and analyse communication functions and practices. To a certain extent this has been driven by organisations...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Chinese executives' preferred ethical ideologies and Machiavellianism on their perceived appropriateness of negotiation tactics as they operate in a nation transitioning from a planned economy to a market economy....

Purpose This paper aims to address the questions of why, when and how business-to-business (B2B) firms engage in sustainability initiatives. The authors believe that this is the first attempt to address all three questions in a single paper, and one of the earliest to focus on these in B2B...

Purpose This study aims to examine the ethical beliefs and moral philosophical typologies, the relative effect of religiosity on personal ethical beliefs and behavior of the collectivist and individualistic business executives. Design/methodology/approach This research assesses the relative...

In this second cover story the author explores the pitfalls of not understanding the difference in corporate culture between merging parties. Highlights a number of examples of failure, and this compliments our first story perfectly.

Purpose – This paper is designed to provide a practical response to the question of “why be ethical in business” framed around the classic critique of business ethics and corporate social responsibility penned by Milton Friedman. Design/methodology/approach – The primary method is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a long‐time report evaluation project of the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and the business network “future – verantwortung unternehmen ”. Design/methodology/approach – On a regular basis, the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deal with an important element of the whistle-blowing decision, the whistle-blower. It is set within the environment of the small Mediterranean island of Malta. It has two objectives. The first is to identify the more important personality traits of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to ascertain if age, gender, management experience and government work experience actually make a difference in the ethical development of respondents in Vietnam, an emerging economy in Southeast Asia. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of ethics instruction received during tertiary education on ethical judgments of Malaysian accountants. Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained through questionnaire survey and analyzed using regression analysis....