An Exploration of Ethical Decision-making Processes in the United States and Egypt

Beekun, Rafik I.; Hamdy, Ramda; Westerman, James W.; Hassabelnaby, Hassan R.

doi:10.1007/s10551-007-9578-y

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“…Local hotels may, therefore, be pessimistic (or perhaps realistic) about the extent to which a green reputation actually lead to economic benefits. It is generally observed that most local companies in Egypt lack marketing professionalism (Beekun et al, 2008;Marta et al, 2004) and hence find difficulties in accessing markets with special interests. If this is the situation, business survival becomes the core issue for these companies; local companies have to compete intensely for a market share and the environment would not be of course the selling point.…”

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The determinants of hotels' marketing managers' green marketing behaviour

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2010

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Little is known about the factors underlying the pro-environmental behaviour of marketing managers. This paper explores the determinants of green marketing practices in the Red Sea hotel sector in Egypt. The research model assesses green marketing practices against the personal and organisational values of the marketing managers, together with a range of organisational and demographic variables expected to influence hotels' environmental behaviour. From a valid sample of 89 marketing managers responsible for 194 hotels it was found that organisational contextual variables, and in particular targeting Western tourists, being affiliated to an international hotel chain as well as the marketers' own demographics, including age, academic subject studied, and gender were the best predictors of more pro-active green marketing. Personal environmental values did not explain the pro-environmental environmental behaviour of marketers, and the organisational environmental values that had explained part of their ethical behaviour resulted from voluntarism rather than utilitarian or conformance-based values. Government policies also appeared to be ineffective determinants. The implications for green marketing practices are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The determinants of hotels' marketing managers' green marketing behaviour

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2010

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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147

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“…Although several empirical comparisons have been completed of ethics of Americans versus non-American business people [38,39], and American versus non-American consumers [40], the most common studies have been of American and non-American business students in cross-national comparisons of business ethics. Indeed, in a comprehensive review of how and why cultural differences arise, Jackson [41] developed and tested a model of ethical decision-making in 10 countries.…”

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Does Nationality Matter in Eco-Behaviour?

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Although many authors agree on the role of personal values in explaining the main determinants of eco-behaviour, disagreement about the effects of socio-demographic features exists, particularly about the effect of nationality. In an attempt to fill this gap in the literature, this paper contributes to the debate surrounding the main determinants of eco-behaviour, based on a cross-country analysis. To test the role of nationality and personal values in eco-behaviour, a linear regression model involving 353 Chinese and 333 Italian subjects was performed. A stepwise analysis was then conducted to identify the main significant effects. The explorative and stepwise analyses confirmed that nationality is significant when explaining individual eco-behaviour, for both Italian and Chinese people. Moreover, the linear regression model, as a stepwise analysis, showed that regulatory focus and universalism are the main personal values influencing ecological behaviour. Differences emerging from the analysis show significant differences in terms of eco-behaviour and eco-awareness, for the two countries involved in the analysis, that might lead companies to adopt different marketing strategies when promoting eco-products.

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“…that Muslims are more idealistic and less relativistic. The Islamic tradition places ethical/social activity ahead of individual profit maximization (Beekun et al 2008;Rice 1999), and Islam urges strict adherence to the ethical injunctions of the Quran. In Libya, Islam is the major source of the written laws and most of the legal environment surrounding business transactions (Kilani 1988).…”

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The Role of Individual Variables, Organizational Variables and Moral Intensity Dimensions in Libyan Management Accountants’ Ethical Decision Making

2014

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This study investigates the association of a broad set of variables with the ethical decision making of management accountants in Libya. Adopting a cross-sectional methodology, a questionnaire including four different ethical scenarios was used to gather data from 229 participants. For each scenario, ethical decision making was examined in terms of the recognition, judgment and intention stages of Rest's model. A significant relationship was found between ethical recognition and ethical judgment and also between ethical judgment and ethical intention, but ethical recognition did not significantly predict ethical intention-thus providing support for Rest's model. Organizational variables, age and educational level yielded few significant results. The lack of significance for codes of ethics might reflect their relative lack of development in Libya, in which case Libyan companies should pay attention to their content and how they are supported, especially in the light of the under-development of the accounting profession in Libya. Few significant results were also found for gender, but where they were found, males showed more ethical characteristics than females. This unusual result reinforces the dangers of gender stereotyping in business. Personal moral philosophy and moral intensity dimensions were generally found to be significant predictors of the three stages of ethical decision making studied. One implication of this is to give more attention to ethics in accounting education, making the connections between accounting practice and (in Libya) Islam. Overall, this study not only adds to the available empirical evidence on factors affecting ethical decision making, notably examining three stages of Rest's model, but also offers rare insights into the ethical views of practising management accountants and provides a benchmark for future studies of ethical decision making in Muslim majority countries and other parts of the developing world.

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An Exploration of Ethical Decision-making Processes in the United States and Egypt

Cited by 64 publications

References 40 publications

The determinants of hotels' marketing managers' green marketing behaviour

The determinants of hotels' marketing managers' green marketing behaviour

Does Nationality Matter in Eco-Behaviour?

The Role of Individual Variables, Organizational Variables and Moral Intensity Dimensions in Libyan Management Accountants’ Ethical Decision Making

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