| Author: | Schminke, M. |
| Title: | Considering the business in business ethics: an exploratory study of the influence of organizational size and structure on individual ethical predispositions |
| Journal: | Journal of Business Ethics
2001 : APR II, VOL. 30:4, p. 375-390 |
| Index terms: | BUSINESS ETHICS PROFESSIONAL ETHICS CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The relationship between organizational size, structure and the strength of organization members' ethical predispositions is explored. Survey results that contrary to expectations, larger, more rigid, mechanistic structures were associated with higher levels of ethical formalism and utilitarianism. |
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