Religiousness and Business Ethics

There is strong theoretical support for a relationship between various characteristics of religiousness and attitudes towards business ethics. This paper examines three frequently- studied dimensions of religiousness (fundamentalism, conservatism, and intrinsic religiousness) and their ability to pr...

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Authors: Kennedy, Ellen J. (Author) ; Lawton, Leigh (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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出版: 1998
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 1998, 卷: 17, 发布: 2, Pages: 163-175
Further subjects:B Religious Affiliation
B Unethical Behavior
B Business Ethic
B Negative Relationship
B Economic Growth
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总结:There is strong theoretical support for a relationship between various characteristics of religiousness and attitudes towards business ethics. This paper examines three frequently- studied dimensions of religiousness (fundamentalism, conservatism, and intrinsic religiousness) and their ability to predict students' willingness to behave unethically. Because prior research indicated a possible relationship between the religious affiliation of an institution and its members' ethical orientation, we studied students at universities with three different types of religious affiliation: evangelical, Catholic, and none., Results of the study lend support to a negative relationship between the above-mentioned dimensions of religiousness and willingness to behave unethically. In addition, students at the Evangelical university were far less willing to engage in unethical behavior than were students at either the Catholic or the unaffiliated institutions.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/A:1005747511116