Context Matters Less Than Leadership in Preventing Unethical Behaviour in International Business

Antunez, Marlond; Ramalho, Nelson; Marques, Tânia M. G.

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Context Matters Less Than Leadership in Preventing Unethical Behaviour in International Business

2023-09-08Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Antunez, Marlond
dc.contributor.author	Ramalho, Nelson
dc.contributor.author	Marques, Tânia M. G.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-10-25T14:55:14Z
dc.date.available	2023-10-25T14:55:14Z
dc.date.issued	2023-09-08
dc.description.abstract	This study empirically tests a sequential mediation model that links ethical leadership with employees’ unethical behaviour. The corruption index for countries is used as the moderator, because it represents both the instrumental ethical climate and the employee displacement of responsibility embedded in society’s ethical standards. A total of 175 participants comprising 41 teams (134 dyads) across 13 countries participated in a dyadic two-wave survey. The fndings show that ethical leadership has an indirect infuence on the avoidance of unethical behaviour by reducing the instrumental ethical climate and by negating the displacement of individuals’ responsibility. In addition, the results also show that this process is not sensitive to the countries’ corruption levels. Such fndings suggest that organizations are less prone to adjust their ethical standards to the environment than is usually expected. Accordingly, ethical leaders of MNCs may be instrumental in counteracting any corruptive pressure in the social environment, and likewise, non-ethical leaders may be a contributing factor to fostering corrupt organizations in a society that otherwise values ethical principles in business.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05520-y	pt_PT
dc.identifier.eissn	1573-0697
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/8871
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Springer	pt_PT
dc.relation	Centre of Applied Research in Management and Economics
dc.relation	Business Research Unit - BRU-IUL
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-023-05520-y	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Ethical leadership	pt_PT
dc.subject	Ethical climate	pt_PT
dc.subject	Displacement of responsibility	pt_PT
dc.subject	Corruption	pt_PT
dc.subject	Unethical behaviour	pt_PT
dc.subject	International business	pt_PT
dc.title	Context Matters Less Than Leadership in Preventing Unethical Behaviour in International Business	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.title	Journal of Business Ethics	pt_PT
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