How ethical are industrial buyers?

Browning, John M.; Zabriskie, Noel B.

doi:10.1016/s0019-8501(83)80001-7

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“…The main path consists of 15 articles that play a major role in the development of this field, which are labelled with the first author's surname and publication year. There are two sources (Browning and Zabriskie 1983;Rudelius and Buchholz 1979) and 5 sinks (Gimenez and Tachizawa 2012;Hoejmose et al 2013;Lee et al 2013;Reimann et al 2012;Reuter et al 2012). They are depicted as black and blank nodes, respectively.…”

Section: Results Of Network Analysis Citation Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are many forms of unethical purchasing behaviour; some of these may include giftgiving/taking, accepting a bribe, padding expense accounts, coercive or opportunistic behaviour, and preferential treatment for certain suppliers. (Rudelius and Buchholz 1979;Browning and Zabriskie 1983;Bird 1989;Rotting et al 2011). Many scholarly efforts have been made to categorise this issue; for example, based on whether or not these are explicitly or implicitly prohibited in the firm, Saini (2010) divides such behaviour into three different aspects: explicitly prohibited by corporate policy (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Carter (2000) 12 (81) Hoejmose et al (2013) 0.6166 Maloni and Brown (2006) 12 (124) Maloni and Brown (2006) 0.5764 2 Landeros and Plank (1996) 6 (16) Landeros and Plank (1996) 0.6666 Browning and Zabriskie (1983) 5 (60) Robertson and Rymon (2001) 0.6400…”

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Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research

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The purpose of this study is to present a rigorous, focused review on how this field of ethical sourcing research has grown and evolved over the decades, providing implications for future research. We combine two research methodologies in this study: a systematic literature review and a citation network analysis. The former is used as a scientific tool to select the most relevant ethical sourcing articles, while the latter is then applied as a research technique to analyse these selected articles. Such a combined approach allows for a rigorous investigation into this field of research in a more scientific and objective way. Based on this approach, we identify (1) distinctive features of ethical sourcing studies such as growth trends and content issues; (2) important articles that have played a significant role in developing this field; (3) evolutionary paths that show how its knowledge has been created and transferred; (4) emerging trends that have received growing attention in the recent literature; (5) main research areas that underlie the entire ethical sourcing studies; and (6) major implications that need to be pursued in future research. The results of this study provide not only the current status of the literature but also the patterns of evolution in this field of research, thus contributing to the existing literature.

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Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research

2016

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“…Browning and Zabriskie 1983;Kracher et al 2002;Pierce and Sweeney 2010 H1c Level of education is positively related to ethical recognition, judgment and intention.…”

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The Role of Individual Variables, Organizational Variables and Moral Intensity Dimensions in Libyan Management Accountants’ Ethical Decision Making

2014

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This study investigates the association of a broad set of variables with the ethical decision making of management accountants in Libya. Adopting a cross-sectional methodology, a questionnaire including four different ethical scenarios was used to gather data from 229 participants. For each scenario, ethical decision making was examined in terms of the recognition, judgment and intention stages of Rest's model. A significant relationship was found between ethical recognition and ethical judgment and also between ethical judgment and ethical intention, but ethical recognition did not significantly predict ethical intention-thus providing support for Rest's model. Organizational variables, age and educational level yielded few significant results. The lack of significance for codes of ethics might reflect their relative lack of development in Libya, in which case Libyan companies should pay attention to their content and how they are supported, especially in the light of the under-development of the accounting profession in Libya. Few significant results were also found for gender, but where they were found, males showed more ethical characteristics than females. This unusual result reinforces the dangers of gender stereotyping in business. Personal moral philosophy and moral intensity dimensions were generally found to be significant predictors of the three stages of ethical decision making studied. One implication of this is to give more attention to ethics in accounting education, making the connections between accounting practice and (in Libya) Islam. Overall, this study not only adds to the available empirical evidence on factors affecting ethical decision making, notably examining three stages of Rest's model, but also offers rare insights into the ethical views of practising management accountants and provides a benchmark for future studies of ethical decision making in Muslim majority countries and other parts of the developing world.

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“…Additionally, the study did not account for other effects such as possible effects of demographic aspects that may be involved in ethical leadership or conduct. For example, Browning and Zabriskie (1983), Murphy, Smith and Daley (1992) and Weber (1990) found that organisation size tends to influence ethical decision-making and that as organisation size increases, individual ethical beliefs and ethical decision-making behaviour decreases. We propose that in future models, these factors be explored in an African context, which would facilitate knowing where to direct effort to help develop ethical leadership and conduct.…”

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Ethical Leadership in South Africa and Botswana

Cheteni

Shindika²

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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This study was conducted to investigate the extent of ethical leadership practices in African public utilities, given the relatively high corruption reported in such institutions, with consequences of seriously constrained development of national economies and significant hindrance to good governance. Our aim was to establish potential benefits from ethical leadership in public sector agencies by analysing ethical leadership characteristics in the public sector from Botswana and South Africa. We measured ethical leadership perceptions utilizing a combination of scales in an attempt to encompass the larger breadth of ethical leadership scales found in the literature in order to determine how employees perceived their managers in terms of being moral people and moral managers. A total of 108 respondents completed questionnaires. Results indicate that there were significant differences between the perceptions of managers' moral conduct. South African leaders were perceived as relatively weaker moral managers as compared to those in Botswana.

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How ethical are industrial buyers?

Cited by 152 publications

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Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research

Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research

The Role of Individual Variables, Organizational Variables and Moral Intensity Dimensions in Libyan Management Accountants’ Ethical Decision Making

Ethical Leadership in South Africa and Botswana

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