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Attitudes toward Corporate Responsibilities in Western Europe and in Central And East Europe

Furrer, Olivier ; Egri, Carolyn P. ; Ralston, David A. ; Danis, Wade M. ; Reynaud, Emmanuelle ; Naoumova, Irina ; Molteni, Mario ; Starkus, Arunas ; Darder, Fidel León ; Dabic, Marina ; Furrer-Perrinjaquet, Amandine

In: Management International Review, 2010, vol. 50, no. 3, p. 379-398

This study investigated the attitudes toward social, economic, and environmental corporate responsibilities of 3064 current managers and business students in 8 European countries. Participants in Western European countries had significantly different perspectives on the importance of these corporate responsibilities (CR) than those in Central and East European countries. Within each country,...

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Ethical preferences for influencing superiors : A 41-society study

Ralston, David A. ; Egri, Carolyn P. ; de la Garza Carranza, María Teresa ; Ramburuth, Prem ; Terpstra-Tong, Jane ; Pekerti, Andre A. ; Girson, Ilya ; Herrig, Harald ; Dabic, Marina ; Tang, Moureen ; Wan, Paulina ; Hallinger, Philip ; Palmer, Ian ; Elenkov, Detelin S. ; Furrer, Olivier ; Potocan, Vojko V. ; Wangenheim, Florian V. ; Maignan, Isabelle ; Perrewé, Pamela L. ; Rossi, Ana Maria ; Lenartowicz, Tomasz ; Ledgerwood, Donna E. ; May, Ruth C. ; Weber, Mark J. ; Jesuino, Jorge C. ; Fu, Ping Ping ; Naoumova, Irina ; Casado, Tania ; Riddle, Liesl ; Richards, Malika ; Butt, Arif N. ; Danis, Wade M. ; Castro, Francisco B. ; Ruiz-Gutiérrez, Jaime ; Milton, Laurie P. ; Ansari, Mahfooz A. ; Brock, David M. ; Srinivasan, Narasimhan ; Starkus, Arunas ; Dalgic, Tevfik ; León-Darder, Fidel ; Thanh, Hung Vu ; Moon, Yong-lin ; Chia, Ho Beng ; Christine Kuo, Min-Hsun ; Molteni, Mario ; Kangasniemi, Maria ; Mellahi, Kamel ; Wallace, Alan

In: Journal of International Business Studies, 2009, vol. 40, no. 6, p. 1022-1045

With a 41-society sample of 9990 managers and professionals, we used hierarchical linear modeling to investigate the impact of both macro-level and micro-level predictors on subordinate influence ethics. While we found that both macro-level and micro-level predictors contributed to the model definition, we also found global agreement for a subordinate influence ethics hierarchy. Thus our findings...