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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is a global divergence or convergence with regard to the ethics of corporate governance. Design/methodology/approach – Regional perspectives on the ethics of corporate governance from four regions, namely, Africa, Asia,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the contents of ethics codes from Spanish manufacturing companies disclosed on their corporate web sites. The analysis of these contents will reflect the main ethical concerns faced by Spanish organizations in the current business context....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a single code of ethics that could be used regardless of the venue or specialty of the marketing professional. The paper first provides a literature review of research in the areas of ethics pertaining to marketing professionals. Then a review...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze annual reports through content analysis. Corporate social responsibility reporting (CSRR) extent and type are measured by the number of sentences. CSRR are further classified into three subcategories according to whether they are negative, neutral...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the value of the British pub to stakeholders and then to examine how its image can be improved in the light of criticisms of the existing “drinks culture”. Design/methodology/approach – These objectives are achieved by examining already...

Purpose This paper aims to illustrate how business ethics research is progressing in the tourism and hospitality (T/H) industries and suggest a research agenda. Design/methodology/approach This study applies bibliometric analysis to articles related to business ethics topics in the T/H fields...

A social science classification model is described which identifies three traditional global business ethics perspectives and a fourth perspective which presents a more useful integration of elements of the others. The perspectives are identified as personal, social, cultural and integrated. The...