This article summarizes and aggregates the results of a study conducted of the largest 100 public sector organizations derived from three categories in Sweden. These categories of organizations comprise 40 entities of government, 40 municipalities, and 20 county councils. The objective was to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the measures put in place by the largest public sector organizations in Sweden in order to communicate the ethos of their codes of ethics to their employees. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based upon a longitudinal survey...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to describe and compare similarities as well as differences in the organizational engagement with ethics between private sector companies and public sector entities. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was conducted in order to examine the...

Purpose – A set of principal parameters (i.e. time, context, gap, outcome, and consequence) influences the ethical performance evaluation (EPE) of business practices in the marketplace and society. The purpose of this paper is to describe a managerial framework of EPE based upon these...

Purpose – Corporate codes of conduct originated around 1900 in the USA gaining further momentum in the 1950s in relation to anti‐trust legislation. Subsequently, the adoption of codes of ethics has spread throughout the world and they now feature extensively in many organisations. The...

Purpose – The constructs of relativism and absolutism have a significant role to play in the development of ethical theory; however, they are commonly simplified in their depictions and are philosophically more complex than we give them credit for. The purpose of this paper is to undertake an...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate over time the ethical performance of a multinational foods company – Nestlé – operating in a highly dynamic, complex, and often ambiguous environment in a crisis torn Zimbabwe. Design/methodology/approach – The case study applies an...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a conceptual framework of Supply Chain Management Ethics (SCM‐ethics). Design/methodology/approach – The research is based upon a qualitative approach using a series of semi‐structured interviews. Multiple perspectives and respondents...

Purpose – The objective is to describe a conceptual framework and empirical illustrations of the transparency of SCM ethics in supply chains as a whole. Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on two Scandinavian‐based companies in the telecom and fashion clothing industries,...