The Representation of Social Actors in Corporate Codes of Ethics. How Code Language Positions Internal Actors

This article understands codes of ethics as written documents that represent social actors in specific ways through the use of language. It presents an empirical study that investigated the codes of ethics of the German Dax30 companies. The study adopted a critical discourse analysis-approach in ord...

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Main Author: Winkler, Ingo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2011
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 101, Issue: 4, Pages: 653-665
Further subjects:B Discourse
B codes of ethics
B Language
B actor positioning
B Representation
B Germany
B code effectiveness
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