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Author: | Weaver, G. |
Title: | Corporate ethics programs as control systems: influences of executive commitment and environmental factors |
Journal: | Academy of Management Journal
1999 : FEB, VOL. 42:1, p. 41-57 |
Index terms: | ETHICS CONTROL SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | The study asked why corporations introduce formal programs to manage ethics and why those programs display varying characteristics. The authors used control theory to delineate an ethics program's scope and its orientation toward compliance- and values-based control. Managerial choice theory suggests that environmental factors and management's ethical commitment will influence these dimensions. Environmental factors were the stronger influences on scope, but management commitment was the stronger determinant of control orientation. |
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