Title

Firm Newness, Entrepreneurial Orientation, And Ethical Climate

Keywords

climate; entrepreneurial orientation; ethics; firm age; firm size; newness

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.

Publication Date

7-1-2004

Publication Title

Journal of Business Ethics

Volume

52

Issue

4

Number of Pages

335-347

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-004-1532-7

Socpus ID

8144227011 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/8144227011

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