RT Article
T1 Determinants of the Effectiveness of Corporate Codes of Ethics: An Empirical Study
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 101
IS 3
SP 385
OP 395
A1 Singh, Jang B.
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785642294
AB Recent figures reported by KPMG confirm the growing prevalence of corporate codes of ethics globally. Svensson et al. (Bus Ethics 18:389–407, 2009) in surveys of the largest corporations in Australia, Canada, and Sweden found a similar trend. The increased prevalence of corporate codes of ethics has been accompanied by heightened research interest in various aspects of these documents, e.g., the contents and focus of the codes. However, there is a paucity of research examining the effectiveness of these documents and the organizational infrastructure that accompany them. This study, based on a survey of Canada’s largest corporations, sought to empirically assess the determinants of the effectiveness of corporate codes of ethics by regressing managers’ perceptions of code effectiveness against various elements of ethics programs. It was found that, in a statistically significant model, eighteen independent variables explain 58.5% of the variance in the perceived effectiveness of corporate codes of ethics.
K1 determinants of code effectiveness
K1 corporate codes of ethics
K1 effectiveness of codes
DO 10.1007/s10551-010-0727-3