A Cross-Cultural Construct of the Ethos of the Corporate Codes of Ethics: Australia, Canada and Sweden

IF 4.8 Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Business Ethics-A European Review Pub Date : 2009-06-18 DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8608.2009.01561.x

G. Svensson, G. Wood, Jang B. Singh, Michael Callaghan

引用次数: 24

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to develop and describe a construct of the ethos of the corporate codes of ethics (i.e. an ECCE construct) across three countries, namely Australia, Canada and Sweden. The introduced construct is rather unique as it is based on a cross-cultural sample seldom seen in the literature. While the outcome of statistical analyses indicated a satisfactory factor solution and acceptable estimates of reliability measures, some research limitations have been stressed. They provide a foundation for further research in the field and testing of the ECCE construct in other cultural and corporate settings. We believe that the ECCE construct makes a contribution to theory and practice in the field as it outlines a theoretical construct for the benefit of other researchers. It is also of managerial interest as it provides a grounded framework of areas to be considered in the implementation in organizations of corporate codes of ethics.

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企业道德规范精神的跨文化建构:澳大利亚、加拿大和瑞典

本文的目的是在澳大利亚、加拿大和瑞典这三个国家开发和描述企业道德准则的精神结构(即ECCE结构)。所引入的结构是相当独特的，因为它是基于一个跨文化的样本，在文献中很少见到。虽然统计分析的结果表明了一个令人满意的因素解决方案和可接受的可靠性措施估计，但也强调了一些研究的局限性。它们为在其他文化和企业环境中进一步研究和测试ECCE结构提供了基础。我们认为，ECCE结构对该领域的理论和实践做出了贡献，因为它概述了一个有利于其他研究人员的理论结构。它还具有管理方面的利益，因为它提供了在组织执行公司道德守则时要考虑的领域的基础框架。

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