The importance of ethical behavior to an organization has never been more apparent, and in
recent years researchers have generated a great deal of knowledge about the management …

The authors review the empirical literature in order to assess which variables are postulated
as influencing ethical beliefs and decision making. The variables are divided into those …

As corporate scandals proliferate, practitioners and researchers alike need a cumulative,
quantitative understanding of the antecedents associated with unethical decisions in …

Existing theoretical models of individual ethical decision making in organizations place little
or no emphasis on characteristics of the ethical issue itself. This article (a) proposes an issue …

We propose that employees sometimes engage in unethical acts with the intent to benefit
their organization, its members, or both—a construct we term unethical pro-organizational …

While there is growing interest in professional identity construction (eg Clarke et al., 2009),
little is known about how stigma may influence the development of professional identity …

Senior executives are thought to provide the organization's ethical 'tone at the top'. We
conducted an inductive interview-based study aimed at defining the perceived content …

This article summarizes the multitude of empirical studies that test ethical decision making in
business and suggests additional research necessary to further theory in this area. The …

In the aftermath of recent corporate scandals, managers and researchers have turned their
attention to questions of ethics management. We identify five common myths about business …

This study investigated effects of codes of ethics on perceptions of ethical behavior.
Respondents from companies with codes of ethics (n= 465) rated role set members (top …