Societal-Level Versus Individual-Level Predictions of Ethical Behavior: A 48-Society Study of Collectivism and Individualism

被引:58
作者
Ralston, David A. [1 ]
Egri, Carolyn P. [2 ]
Furrer, Olivier [3 ]
Kuo, Min-Hsun [4 ]
Li, Yongjuan [5 ]
Wangenheim, Florian [6 ]
Dabic, Marina [7 ]
Naoumova, Irina [8 ]
Shimizu, Katsuhiko [9 ]
de la Garza Carranza, Maria Teresa [10 ]
Fu, Ping Ping [11 ]
Potocan, Vojko V. [12 ]
Pekerti, Andre [13 ]
Lenartowicz, Tomasz [14 ]
Srinivasan, Narasimhan [15 ]
Casado, Tania [16 ]
Rossi, Ana Maria [17 ]
Szabo, Erna [18 ]
Butt, Arif [19 ]
Palmer, Ian [20 ]
Ramburuth, Prem [21 ]
Brock, David M. [22 ]
Terpstra-Tong, Jane [23 ]
Grison, Ilya [24 ]
Reynaud, Emmanuelle [25 ]
Richards, Malika [26 ]
Hallinger, Philip [27 ]
Castro, Francisco B. [28 ]
Ruiz-Gutierrez, Jaime [29 ]
Milton, Laurie [30 ]
Ansari, Mahfooz [31 ]
Starkus, Arunas [32 ]
Mockaitis, Audra [33 ]
Dalgic, Tevfik [34 ]
Leon-Darder, Fidel [35 ]
Hung Vu Thanh [36 ]
Moon, Yong-lin [37 ]
Molteni, Mario [38 ]
Fang, Yongqing [39 ]
Pla-Barber, Jose [35 ]
Alas, Ruth [40 ]
Maignan, Isabelle [41 ]
Jesuino, Jorge C. [42 ]
Lee, Chay-Hoon [43 ]
Nicholson, Joel D. [44 ]
Chia, Ho-Beng [45 ]
Danis, Wade [46 ]
Dharmasiri, Ajantha S. [47 ]
Weber, Mark [48 ]
机构
[1] Univ Fellow Int Res Consortium, Ft Myers, FL 33907 USA
[2] Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[3] Univ Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
[4] Natl Cent Univ, Zhongli, Taiwan
[5] Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
[6] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Zurich, Switzerland
[7] Univ Zagreb, Zagreb 41000, Croatia
[8] Univ Hartford, Hartford, CT USA
[9] Keio Univ, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223, Japan
[10] Inst Tecnol Celaya, Celaya, Mexico
[11] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[12] Univ Maribor, SLO-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
[13] Univ Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
[14] Florida Atlantic Univ, Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA
[15] Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT USA
[16] Univ Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[17] Int Stress Management Assoc, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
[18] Johannes Kepler Univ Linz, A-4040 Linz, Austria
[19] Lahore Univ Management Sci, Lahore, Pakistan
[20] RMIT Univ, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
[21] Univ New S Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[22] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel
[23] Monash Univ, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
[24] Univ Westminster, London W1R 8AL, England
[25] IAE Marseille Univ, Aix En Provence, France
[26] Penn State Univ, Reading, PA USA
[27] Hong Kong Inst Educ, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[28] Univ Porto, CEMPRE, P-4100 Porto, Portugal
[29] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[30] Univ Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
[31] Univ Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
[32] CIBER Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
[33] Monash Univ, Melbourne, Vic 3004, Australia
[34] Univ Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083 USA
[35] Univ Valencia, Valencia, Spain
[36] Natl Econ Univ, Hanoi, Vietnam
[37] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul, South Korea
[38] Catholic Univ Milan, Milan, Italy
[39] Univ Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
[40] Estonia Business Sch, Tallinn, Estonia
[41] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[42] Inst Super Ciencias Trabalho & Empresa, Lisbon, Portugal
[43] Keppel Offshore & Marine, Singapore, Singapore
[44] San Francisco State Univ, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
[45] Natl Univ Singapore, Singapore 117548, Singapore
[46] Univ Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
[47] Postgrad Inst Management, Colombo, Sri Lanka
[48] Argosy Univ Twin Cities, Eagan, MN USA
关键词
Cultural values; Influence ethics; Hierarchical linear modeling; Collectivism; Individualism; CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH; DECISION-MAKING; WORK VALUES; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; PERCEIVED EFFECTIVENESS; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; LEADERSHIP-STYLES; MULTILEVEL MODELS; NATIONAL CULTURE; BUSINESS ETHICS;
D O I
10.1007/s10551-013-1744-9
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Is the societal-level of analysis sufficient today to understand the values of those in the global workforce? Or are individual-level analyses more appropriate for assessing the influence of values on ethical behaviors across country workforces? Using multi-level analyses for a 48-society sample, we test the utility of both the societal-level and individual-level dimensions of collectivism and individualism values for predicting ethical behaviors of business professionals. Our values-based behavioral analysis indicates that values at the individual-level make a more significant contribution to explaining variance in ethical behaviors than do values at the societal-level. Implicitly, our findings question the soundness of using societal-level values measures. Implications for international business research are discussed.
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页码:283 / 306
页数:24
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