Taking into account the global expansion that certain traditional financial practices like hawala have experienced in the last decades, it is undeniable that both cultural diversity and different moral perceptions have become relevant questions in the international financial arena. Consequently,...

Manuscript Type: Empirical. Research Question/ Issue: Codes of ethics contain a set of rules of conduct and corporate principles concerning the responsibility to stakeholders and shareholders, which help guide corporate and employees’ behavior, and they constitute verifiable elements of social...

Taking into account the global expansion that certain traditional financial practices like hawala have experienced in the last decades, it is undeniable that both cultural diversity and different moral perceptions have become relevant questions in the international financial arena. Consequently,...

The ethical dimension of industrial production has been largely neglected by theorists of production. This article identifies three important features of the production process, i.e. utility, compartmentalization, and independent external end-point; brought about by industrialization in the...

Corporate reputation (CR) has become a fashionable topic due, among other reasons, to the recent financial and economic crisis and spreading corporate scandals. Given its interdisciplinary character and intangible nature, CR has been a frequent issue in many disciplines, but scarcely present in...

Spanish Abstract: La mayoría de los estudios éticos sobre la empresa han considerado la producción como un proceso predominantemente técnico y, por tanto, al margen de la ética. En este trabajo, por medio del análisis de tres características esenciales de la producción (utilidad,...

We propose a novel methodology to characterize the investor decision making process. By drawing logical paths in a structural equation model (SEM) framework, we uncover the role of a latent financial risk index that is simultaneously shaping the dynamics of different financial asset prices. Our...

This paper aims to contribute to an improved theoretical and empirical understanding of the role that corporation has to play in anticorruption efforts. Research findings/insights: Using cross-country data from three databases (Bribe Payers Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, and Doing...

This empirical study explores the characteristics and degree of implementation of so-called ethics hotlines in transnational companies (TNCs), which allow employees to present allegations of wrongdoing and ethical dilemmas, as well as to report concerns. Ethics hotlines have not received much...