My Company Cares About My Success horizontal ellipsis I Think: Clarifying Why and When a Firm's Ethical Reputation Impacts Employees' Subjective Career Success

被引：8

作者：

Rice, Darryl B. ^{[1
]}

Taylor, Regina M. ^{[2
]}

Wang, Yiding ^{[3
]}

Wei, Sijing ^{[4
]}

Ge, Valentina ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Miami Univ, Farmer Sch Business, Dept Management, 800 E High St, Oxford, OH 45056 USA

[2] Creighton Univ, Heider Coll Business, Mkt & Management Dept, Harper Ctr 3067,2500 Calif Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178 USA

[3] Univ Houston Downtown, Davies Coll Business, Dept Accounting & Int Business, Houston, TX 77002 USA

[4] Creighton Univ, Heider Coll Business, Accounting Dept, Harper Ctr 3067,2500 Calif Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS | 2023年 / 186卷 / 01期

关键词：

Ethical reputation; Subjective career success; Signaling theory; Macro-micro gap; SIGNALING THEORY; PROACTIVE PERSONALITY; EXPERIMENTAL VIGNETTE; DEMAND ARTIFACTS; BUSINESS ETHICS; MODERATING ROLE; MEDIATING ROLE; MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE; COMMITMENT;

D O I：

10.1007/s10551-022-05143-9

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

The value of a company's ethical reputation has become a focal point for management researchers. We seek to join this conversation and extend the research centered on a firm's ethical reputation. We accomplish this by shifting our focus away from its impact on external stakeholders to its impact on internal stakeholders. To this end, we rely on signaling theory to explain why a firm's ethical reputation matters to its employees in an effort to bridge the macro-micro research gap. Across two studies, we propose and demonstrate that a firm's ethical reputation impacts employee subjective career success in form of career opportunities and work-life balance. Given our signaling theory framework, we also identify and explain when two industry-level characteristics operate as boundary conditions that distort a firm's ethical reputation signaling properties. Specifically, the results demonstrate that a firm's ethical reputation is positively related to employees' perceptions of career opportunities and work-life balance. The results of our studies also demonstrate that the relatively high levels of industry competition and industry regulation weaken the positive impact of a firm's ethical reputation on career opportunities and work-life balance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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页码：159 / 177

页数：19