Understanding Research on Values in Business

Abstract

Researchers in all management specialties have discussed and investigated the important role values play in personal and organizational phenomena. However, because research on values has been performed in a wide range of social science disciplines and at different levels of analysis, much of thiswork has been uninformed by other work and is neither well integrated nor systematized, resulting in a great deal of confusion concerning the topic. This article attempts to add order and clarity to this area of research by proposing a framework of values research based on level of analysis and by cataloguing and reviewing the vast theoretical and empirical research in light of this framework. It concludes with a critique of the extant literature and recommendations for further research.

Examination of General Managers Individual Values Related to CSR Among Hungarian Small Organizations

“…There were researches carried out on the influence of the personal values of the managers on the culture of the corporation [Robin, Reidenbach, 1987;Desai, Rittenburg, 1997;Agle et al, 1999;Lightle et al, 2009].…”

“…The dilemma of several surveys is that it studies several values at the same time, often contradictory ones, and hence the researches receive ambivalent and contradictory results [Agle, Caldwell, 1999]. Agle and Caldwell [1999] identify the following levels of value: personal, organizational, institutional, social and global.…”

Influência da Dissimilaridade de Valores Individuais no Resultado de Times de Alta Gerência: um estudo em laboratório de gestão

“…Human values have been the subject matter of research in several areas within social sciences, in an attempt to understand and explain the human phenomenon, both at the individual level and collective level (AGLE, CALDWELL, 1999;KLUCKHOHN, 1951;ROHAN, 2000;ROKEACH, 1973;SCHWARTZ, 1992).…”

Ambivalence and ambiguity in social enterprise; narratives about values in reconciling purpose and practices

“…Shared values have an impact on organizational behaviour (Agle and Cadewell, 1999;Schwartz, 2001;Cambra-Fierro, Polo-Redondo and Wilson, 2008). Indeed, organizational values are not created in isolation but are influenced by individual as well as societal values (Cambra-Fierro et al, 2008, 159;Drakopoulou Dodd and Anderson, 2001;Anderson et al, 2009).…”