Title

Firm newness, entrepreneurial orientation, and ethical climate

Authors

Authors

D. O. Neubaum; M. S. Mitchell;M. Schminke

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Bus. Ethics

Keywords

ethics; ethical climate; entrepreneurial orientation; firm newness; firm; age; firm size; CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP; DECISION-MAKING; ADOLESCENCE; PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; ORGANIZATIONS; PERCEPTIONS; LIABILITIES; PERSPECTIVE; DEPENDENCE; Business; Ethics

Abstract

Faced with the liability of newness, a scarcity of resources, and concerns of survival, new firms frequently encounter difficult ethical decisions and might be pressured to make choices that run counter to the tenets of more developed ethical and moral reasoning. This study explores the impact of newness and entrepreneurial orientation on the ethical climate of firms. Data collected from 304 individuals across 37 firms indicated that firm newness was more strongly related to ethical climate than was an entrepreneurial orientation. Results also revealed that firm newness may be usefully conceptualized in both continuous and categorical terms, with each operationalization holding a somewhat different relationship with climate. Finally, results revealed that firm size was related to several types of ethical climates.

Journal Title

Journal of Business Ethics

Volume

52

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

335

Last Page

347

WOS Identifier

WOS:000225103400003

ISSN

0167-4544

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