Moral awareness in business organizations:: Influences of issue-related and social context factors

被引:276
作者
Butterfield, KD [1 ]
Treviño, LK
Weaver, GR
机构
[1] Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
[2] Penn State Univ, Smeal Coll Business Adm, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[3] Univ Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA
关键词
business ethics; competitive intelligence; moral awareness; moral intensity;
D O I
10.1177/0018726700537004
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
Individuals' awareness of moral issues is an important first step in the ethical decision-making process. Relying on research in social cognition and business ethics, we hypothesized that moral awareness is influenced by issue-related factors (magnitude of consequences of the moral issue and issue framing in moral terms) and social context-related factors (competitive context and perceived social consensus that the issue is ethically problematic). The hypotheses were tested in a field experiment involving 291 competitive intelligence practitioners. Results generally supported the hypotheses. Qualitative analysis yielded additional insights into the content of respondents' moral awareness.
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页码:981 / 1018
页数:38
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