My company cares about my success ... I think: clarifying why and when a firm's ethical reputation impacts employees' subjective career success
The value of a company's ethical reputation has become a focal point for management researchers. We seek to join this conversation and extend the research centered on a firm's ethical reputation. We accomplish this by shifting our focus away from its impact on external stakeholders to its...
| Published in: | Journal of business ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2023
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
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| Further subjects: | B
Ethical reputation
B Macro-micro gap B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift B Signaling theory B Subjective career success |
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| Summary: | The value of a company's ethical reputation has become a focal point for management researchers. We seek to join this conversation and extend the research centered on a firm's ethical reputation. We accomplish this by shifting our focus away from its impact on external stakeholders to its impact on internal stakeholders. To this end, we rely on signaling theory to explain why a firm’s ethical reputation matters to its employees in an effort to bridge the macro-micro research gap. Across two studies, we propose and demonstrate that a firm’s ethical reputation impacts employee subjective career success in form of career opportunities and work-life balance. Given our signaling theory framework, we also identify and explain when two industry-level characteristics operate as boundary conditions that distort a firm's ethical reputation signaling properties. Specifically, the results demonstrate that a firm's ethical reputation is positively related to employees' perceptions of career opportunities and work-life balance. The results of our studies also demonstrate that the relatively high levels of industry competition and industry regulation weaken the positive impact of a firm's ethical reputation on career opportunities and work-life balance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-022-05143-9 |