Business and Government Ethics in the “New” and “Old” EU: An Empirical Account of Public–Private Value Congruence in Slovenia and the Netherlands

Jelovac, Dejan; Wal, Zeger van der; Jelovac, Ana

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“…The current level of natural CSR in Lithuania has been affected by the development of CSR in the past decade (Vveinhardt & Andriukaitiene, 2014) and the increasing understanding of natural CSR among business stakeholders (Dagiliene et al, 2014). Turning to Slovenia, care for the natural environment stems from the increasing orientation among enterprises toward natural CSR (Jelovac et al, 2011;Potocan et al, 2016).…”

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“…According to the current level of social CSR in Lithuania, studies may follow social expectations revealed by "Social policy of the EU" and "Civil Society in Lithuania" concerning social goals (Dagiliene et al, 2014;Vveinhardt & Andriukaitiene, 2014). The current level of social CSR in Slovenia originated in "High social standards in Slovenia" (Furrer et al, 2010;Jelovac et al, 2011) and "social dialogue" aimed at the social goals of organizations (Jelovac et al, 2011;Potocan et al, 2016).…”

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“…In Lithuania, the current level of economic CSR is astonishingly low according to the higher economic growth of the national economy (Pucetaite & Pusinaite, 2015;Vveinhardt & Andriukaitiene, 2014), and studies regarding the significant concern for the economic CSR of enterprises in Lithuania (Vveinhardt & Andriukaitiene, 2014). Also, in Slovenia, where the orientation toward economic results enabled the successful development of enterprises before the economic crisis, and their fast recovery after the crisis, the opinion of business students concerning economic CSR does not follow economic and business patterns (Jelovac et al, 2011;Potocan et al, 2016). Results from Table 2 about the concern for the economic environment of CSR reveal significant differences in both countries about the primary concern for economic results (Lithuania: M = 4.55; Slovenia = 3.45; t = 5.58, p < 0.001) and devoting resources for CSR (Lithuania: M = 4.03; Slovenia = 3.04; t = 5.95, p < 0.001).…”

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The Impact of Economic Attitudes on Natural and Social Corporate Responsibility – A Comparative Study of Lithuania and Slovenia

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This paper reports on research that examines the state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the impact of economic attitudes on natural and social CSR in Lithuania and Slovenia. The study exposes CSR and organizational behavior theories and analyzes answers from 159 Lithuanian and 183 Slovenian business students considered as future employees. The authors established a model to examine the impact of economic CSR – considered through a “primary concern for economic results” and “devoting resources for CSR” to “natural CSR” and “social CSR.” In Lithuania interest in social CSR prevails, while in Slovenia interest is focused on natural CSR. The economic aspect of CSR is poorly appreciated in both countries. Associations between CSR aspects reveal that favoring economic results has no significant influence on natural and social CSR in the Lithuanian sample. In the Slovenian sample there is a significant and negative association between the concern for economic results and natural and social CSR. A positive and significant impact of devoting resources to natural and social CSR in both countries exists, but the impact is stronger for Slovenia than Lithuania. Devoting resources contributes more to a concern for social rather than natural CSR in both samples. Economic CSR explains significantly more variance in social CSR than in natural CSR. The findings could help improve and develop CSR behavior in organizations and among their future employees. They could also benefit higher education organizations and society.

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The Impact of Economic Attitudes on Natural and Social Corporate Responsibility – A Comparative Study of Lithuania and Slovenia

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“…Slovenian public administration has based its work on officially defined ethical principles, stated through key public values derived from justice, legality, transparency, professionalism, responsibility, efficiency, and effectiveness to citizens' user-orientation (Republic of Slovenia, 2002; Jelovac, Van Der Wal and Jelovac, 2011). Stated values are harmonized with values followed by legislation, and the standards, and good practices of international organizations and of developed Western countries (United Nations, 2004; Moilanen and Salminen, 2007; Demmke and Moilanen, 2011).…”

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Lynch¹

2009

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The main purpose of this paper is to examine how employees' personal ethics, expressed through their personal values and attitudes toward social and environmental issues, are associated with the ethics of organizations in public administration. The authors introduce their own theoretical model that examines the relations between employees' personal ethics-expressed through employees' personal values and attitudes toward natural and social environments-and the ethics of public administration. The reported study examined these relations and tested a proposed model based on the answers of 212 employees from public administration organizations in Slovenia. Employees' attitudes toward natural and social environments and the ethics of their organizations were measured using a questionnaire designed to measure aspects of ethics whereas personal values were measured using the Schwartz value survey. The results demonstrated that employees' self-enhancing values significantly influence their attitudes toward the natural environment. Employees' self-transcendence and self-enhancement values significantly influence their attitudes toward the social environment and the ethics of organizations. In addition, research results about the mediation effect of employees' attitudes toward natural and social environments on the association between the employees' personal values and their perception of the ethics of public administration organizations reveals that employees' social attitudes have a significant impact on the ethics of public administration while the impact of self-transcending and self-enhancing values becomes insignificant. Based on results of testing our model we can conclude that the employee's attitudes toward to the social environment represent a significantly more powerful predictor of ethics in public administration organizations than the employees' personal values. These results present a solid basis for further theoretical and practical advancement of public administration ethics.

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“…First, we control for entrepreneurship being viewed as a mechanism for social mobility and/or as an unemployment buffer (see, e.g., Arrighetti et al 2015;Guerra and Patuelli 2016;Thurik et al 2008). Second, we distinguish between trust as a measure for healthy relationships, which is established as a positive factor for socio-economic prosperity at the individual level (see, e.g., Vaillant 2012), and obedience to parents, which has been pointed out in some studies as a negative factor for prosperity and entrepreneurial activity (see, for recent literature reviews, Boz and Ergeneli 2014; Jelovac et al 2011). Third, possible cultural differences, such as migrant status, are known from the literature to entail potential groupwise heterogeneity which could lead to bias.…”

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Business and Government Ethics in the “New” and “Old” EU: An Empirical Account of Public–Private Value Congruence in Slovenia and the Netherlands

Cited by 23 publications

References 25 publications

The Impact of Economic Attitudes on Natural and Social Corporate Responsibility – A Comparative Study of Lithuania and Slovenia

The Impact of Economic Attitudes on Natural and Social Corporate Responsibility – A Comparative Study of Lithuania and Slovenia

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Multilevel Transmission of Cultural Attitudes and Entrepreneurial Intention: Evidence from High-School Students

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