A 30-Year Historical Examination of Ethical Concerns Regarding Business Ethics: Who's Concerned?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 431-438

  Drover, Will ^b   Franczak, Jennifer ^b   Beltramini, Richard F ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward business ethics; Business ethics; Evolving ethical perspectives; Future business leaders; Historical research approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871292238     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1214-9     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Ajzen, I., & Fishbein, M. (1980). Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior. Prentice-Hall, NJ: Englewood Cliffs.
2. Albaum, G., & Peterson, R. (2005). Benchmarking students attitudes regarding ethical issues. In A. Peterson & O. Ferrell (Eds.), Business ethics. New challenges for business schools and corporate leaders. New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
3. Albaum, G., & Peterson, R. A. (2006). Ethical attitudes of future business leaders: Do they vary by gender and religiosity? Business and Society, 45(3), 300-321.
4. Ashforth, B. E., Gioia, D. A., Robinson, S. L., & Trevino, L. K. (2008). Re-viewing organizational corruption. Academy of Management Review, 33(3), 670-684.
5. Atakan, M. G., Burnaz, S., & Topcu, Y. Y. (2008). An empirical investigation of the ethical perceptions of future managers with a special emphasis on gender-Turkish case. Journal of Business Ethics, 82(3), 573-586.
6. Bageac, D., Furrer, O., & Reynaud, E. (2011). Management students' attitudes toward business ethics: A comparison between France and Romania. Journal of Business Ethics, 98(3), 391-406.
7. Bateman, C., & Valentine, S. (2010). Investigating the effects of gender on consumers' moral philosophies and ethical intentions. Journal of Business Ethics, 95(3), 393-414.
8. Baumhart, R. (1961). How ethical are businessmen? Harvard Business Review, 39(4), 6-9, 156-176.
9. Beekun, R., Stedham, Y., & Westerman, J. (2010). Effects of justice and utilitarianism on ethical decision making: A cross-cultural examination of gender similarities and differences. Business Ethics: A European Review, 19(4), 309-325.
10. Beltramini, R. F., Peterson, R. A., & Kozmetsky, G. (1984). Concerns of college students regarding business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 3, 195-200.
11. Berghel, H. (1997). Email-The good, the bad, and the ugly. Communications of the ACM, 40(4), 11-15.
12. Berry, D. M. (2004). Internet research: Privacy, ethics, and alienation: an open source approach. Internet Research, 14(4), 323-332.
13. Boyd, D. (2010). Ethical determinants for generations X and Y. Journal of Business Ethics, 93(3), 465-469.
14. Canary, H. E., & Jennings, M. M. (2008). Principles and influence in codes of ethics: A centering resonance analysis comparing pre- and post-Sarbanes-Oxley codes of ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 80(2), 263-278.
15. Chua, F., & Rahman, A. (2011). Institutional pressures and ethical reckoning by business corporation. Journal of Business Ethics, 98, 307-329.
16. Ciulla, J. B. (2011). Is business ethics getting better? A historical perspective. Business Ethics Quarterly, 21(2), 335-343.
17. Clark, L., & Roberts, S. (2010). Employer's use of social networking sites: A socially irresponsible practice. Journal of Business Ethics, 95(4), 507-525.
18. Collison, M. (1990). Apparent rise in student's cheating has college officials worried. The Chronical of Higher Education, 36, A33-A34.
19. Cordeiro, W. P. (2003). The only solution to the decline in business ethics: Ethical managers. Teaching Business Ethics, 7(3), 265-277.
20. Davis, J. H., Ruhe, J. A., & Lee, M. (2007). Mission possible: Do school mission statements work? Journal of Business Ethics, 70(1), 99-110.
21. Drake, M., & Schlachter, J. (2008). A virtue-ethics analysis of supply chain collaboration. Journal of Business Ethics, 82(4), 851-864.
22. Dunn, P., & Shome, A. (2009). Cultural crossvergence and social desirability bias: Ethical evaluations by Chinese and Canadian business students. Journal of Business Ethics, 85(4), 527-543.
23. Fishbein, M., & Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief, attitude, intention and behavior: An introduction to theory and research. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
24. Friedman, M. (1978, September 13). A Friedman Doctrine: The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. New York Times Magazine, 122-126.
25. Ghoshal, S. (2005). Bad management theories are destroying good management practices. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 4(1), 75-91.
26. Klinefelter, G. G. (2010). Ethical issues in e-business: Models and framework. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 48(4), 738-739.
27. Lau, C. L. L. (2010). A step forward: ethics education matters! Journal of Business Ethics, 92, 565-584.
28. Lewis, V., Kay, K. D., Kelso, C., & Larson, J. (2010). Was the 2008 financial crisis causes by lack of corporate ethics? Global Journal of Business Research, 4(2), 77-84.
29. Lin, L. (2011). Cultural and organizational antecedents of Guanxi: The Chinese cases. Journal of Business Ethics, 99(3), 441-451.
30. Melé, D., Argandoña, A., & Sanchez-Runde, C. (2011). Facing the crisis: Toward a new humanistic synthesis for business. Journal of Business Ethics, 99(1), 1-4.
31. Miller, S., & Weckert, J. (2000). Privacy, the workplace and the Internet. Journal of Business Ethics, 28, 255-265.
32. Mitroff, I. I. (2004). An open letter to the deans and the faculties of American Business Schools. Journal of Business Ethics, 54(2), 185-189.
33. Nevins, J., Bearden, W., & Money, B. (2007). Ethical values and long-term orientation. Journal of Business Ethics, 71(3), 261-274.
34. Nocera, J. (2002, June 24). System failure. Fortune, 62-66, 68, 70, 72, 74.
35. Nonis, S., & Swift, C. (2001). An examination of the relationship between academic dishonesty and workplace dishonesty: A multicampus investigation. Journal of Education for Business, 77(2), 69.
36. O'Donohue, W., & Nelson, L. (2009). The role of ethical values in an expanded psychological contract. Journal of Business Ethics, 90(2), 251-263.
37. O'Neill, H. M., Saunders, C. B., & Derwinski McCarthy, A. (1989). Board members, corporate social responsiveness and profitability: Are tradeoffs necessary? Journal of Business Ethics, 8, 353-357.
38. Peterson, R., Albaum, G., Merunka, D., Munuera, J., & Smith, S. (2010). Effects of nationality, gender, and religiosity on business-related ethicality. Journal of Business Ethics, 96(4), 573-587.
39. Peterson, R., Beltramini, R., & Kozmetsky, G. (1991). Concerns of college students regarding business ethics: A replication. Journal of Business Ethics, 10, 733-738.
40. Pies, I., Beckmann, M., & Hielscher, S. (2010). Value creation, management competencies, and global corporate citizenship: An ordonomic approach to business ethics in the age of globalization. Journal of Business Ethics, 94(2), 265-278.
41. Ritter, B. A. (2006). Can business ethics be trained? A study of the ethical decision-making process in business students. Journal of Business Ethics, 68(2), 153-164.
42. Romar, E. J. (2004). Globalization, ethics, and opportunism: A Confucian view of business relationships. Business Ethics Quarterly, 14(4), 663-678.
43. Sharf, B. (1999). Beyond Netiquette: The ethics of doing naturalistic discourse research on the Internet. In S. Jones (Ed.), Doing Internet research: Critical issues and methods for examining the net (pp. 243-256). Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage.
44. Sleeper, B., Schneider, K., Weber, P., & Weber, J. (2006). Scale and study of student attitudes toward business education's role in addressing social issues. Journal of Business Ethics, 68(4), 381-391.
45. Smith, N., Simpson, S. S., & Chun-Yao, H. (2007). Why managers fail to do the right thing: An empirical study of unethical and illegal conduct. Business Ethics Quarterly, 17(4), 633-667.
46. Sorkln, A., & Bayot, J. (2005, September 20). Ex-Tyco Executives Get 8 to 25 Years. New York Times.
47. Stigler, G. J., & Friedland, C. (1983). The literature of economics: The case of Berle and Means. Journal of Law and Economics, 26, 237-269.
48. Victor, B., & Cullen, J. B. (1988). The organizational bases of ethical work climate. Administrative Science Quarterly, 33, 101-125.
49. Waples, E. P., Antes, A. L., Murphy, S. T., Connelly, S., & Mumford, M. D. (2009). A meta-analytic investigation of business ethics instruction. Journal of Business Ethics, 87, 133-151.
50. Zinkhan, G., Bisesi, M., & Saxton, M. (1989). MBAs changing attitudes toward marketing dilemmas: 1981-1987. Journal of Business Ethics, 8, 963-974.