Firm newness, entrepreneurial orientation, and ethical climate

    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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