Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the implementation, communication and benefits of codes of ethics in the public sector of Sweden. Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a longitudinal approach. It examines the ethos of codes of ethics in the largest public...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to develop and describe a construct of the “ethos of the codes of ethics” (i.e. an ECE construct) in the private and public sectors of Sweden. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes a cross‐sector approach to codes of ethics amongst the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the measurement and structural properties in a model of organizational codes of ethics (OCE) in Sweden. Design/methodology/approach – The measurement and structural properties of four OCE constructs (i.e. surveillance/training, internal...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find a new conception of hybridity to set ground for further systematic research. The concept of hybrid organisations is used in many ways. This leads to confusion among scholars and the term of hybridity appears to be meaningless and useless for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), offering a characterization, explanation, and critique. A recent European Commission conference on “CSR in an Enlarged Europe” suggests European interest in such an...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to place students in the reality of business in an emergency environment and encourage them to go “out of the box” in analyses of ethical issues. Design/methodology/approach – Information concerning the business environment in Belarus is gathered...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of business ethics and governance score on tax avoidance. Design/methodology/approach The sample used consists of 432 European companies belonging to the STOXX600 index during the period ranging from 2010 to 2019. The authors use the...

Purpose – This paper seeks to argue that leadership is a purposive process, which is value‐transcendent, and to suggest that organizations, and leadership systems within organizations, are governed as much by beliefs as by rationality and outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the current debate between business ethics and economics by examining the underlying ideologies of each side. Design/methodology/apprach – It is our intention in this article to examine the stories business ethicists and economists utilize to...

Purpose – The principles, regulations and directives associated with corporate governance constitute a view of the role, responsibilities and obligations of corporations within a given society. Identifying the ethics of a specific corporate governance regime entails making explicit the moral...