Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship of corporate ethical values (CEV) on the work attitudes linked to the organizational behavior of employees. It primarily focusses on examining the relationship of CEV with organizational commitment (OC) and the turnover...

Purpose – This study aims to use organisational justice theory to examine variations in the propensity of trainee auditors in South Africa to blow the whistle internally on misconduct by an engagement leader. Design/methodology/approach – Three vignettes describing high and low states of...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore cross-cultural differences in perceived ethicality of negotiation strategies among China, Taiwan and Canada by examining five categories of strategies often used in business negotiations. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a survey method to...

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...