Business ethics in the NAFTA countries

Hood, Jacqueline N.; Logsdon, Jeanne M.

doi:10.1016/s0148-2963(01)00207-7

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“…Their study also showed that the country has a significant impact. Kaptein (2004) Hood and Logsdon (2002) for the US, Canada, and Mexico, Maignan and Ralston (2002) for the US, the UK, France, and the Netherlands, Reich (2005) for Germany, Japan, and the US, Lindfelt (2004) for Finland, Singh et al (2005) for Australia, Canada, and Sweden, and Melé et al (2006) for Argentina, Brazil, and Spain. We will try to bring this line of research one step further by analyzing the key attributes of ethics in different countries and industries.…”

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“…We look into the different attributes of the firm's relation with ethics and investigate whether and how they differ between firms operating in different countries. Hood and Logsdon (2002) and Singh et al (2005) Langlois and Schlegelmilch (1990), Hood and Logsdon (2002), Kaptein (2004), and Singh et al (2005). But there are some important differences.…”

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Cultural Values and International Differences in Business Ethics

2007

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ABSTRACT. We analyze ethical policies of firms in industrialized countries and try to find out whether culture is a factor that plays a significant role in explaining country differences. We look into the firm's human rights policy, its governance of bribery and corruption, and the comprehensiveness, implementation and communication of its codes of ethics. We use a dataset on ethical policies of almost 2,700 firms in 24 countries. We find that there are significant differences among ethical policies of firms headquartered in different countries. When we associate these ethical policies with Hofstede's cultural indicators, we find that individualism and uncertainty avoidance are positively associated with a firm's ethical policies, whereas masculinity and power distance are negatively related to these policies.

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Cultural Values and International Differences in Business Ethics

2007

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“…Hofstede (1980;2001) documented differences between Mexico and the US in power distance, individualism/collectivism, and uncertainty avoidance. In a study published soon after the implementation of NAFTA in 1994, Hood & Logsdon (2002) predict that there will be a greater appreciation of rules based ethical standards in Mexico due a higher level of uncertainty avoidance and that the higher level of power distance in Mexico could lead to ethical issues because there would be less questioning of superiors in Mexico. It is also documented in the more recent literature that one of the cultural differences documented by Hofstede (1980;2001), power distance, may have mitigated over time (e.g., Stammerjohan, Leach, & Stammerjohan, 2015;and Anderson 2018, who both find evidence that the differences in power distance between US and Mexican samples are no longer significant).…”

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Ethical Decision Making of Future Mexican Managers

Leach-López

Stammerjohan

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“…Some of the issues examined here are: the infusion of spiritually-based principles and values (derived from religions and their secular equivalents) in international business ethics to create moral freedom in multinational firms (Jackson, 1999;Saeed et al, 2001); the identification of similarities and differences in ethical attitudes between managers from different cultures when evaluating ethical 'hypernorms' and 'local norms' (Bailey & Spiger, 2007); and the association of cultural dimensions (i.e., individualism, uncertainty, masculinity, and power distance) on ethical policies, such as prevention and control of bribery/corruption, following a human rights policy and a code of ethics/systems (Schlegelmilch & Robertson, 1995;Hood & Logsdon, 2002;Scholtens & Dam, 2007).…”

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Value differences as determinants of importers’ perceptions of exporters’ unethical behavior: The impact on relationship quality and performance

Leonidou

Coudounaris

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International Business Review

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1 Highlights Our study focuses on the value drivers of the unethical marketing behavior of exporters  We use a survey to collect data  Similarities in national, corporate, and personal values are negatively related to unethical marketing practices  Network ties seem to play a moderating role  Perceived export marketing unethicality negatively influences exporter-importer relationship quality and performance 2 Value differences as determinants of importers' perceptions of exporters' unethical behavior: The impact on relationship quality and performance AbstractThe article focuses on the value drivers of the unethical marketing behavior of exporters, as seen from the perspective of their importers, and how this in turn affects the quality of their working relationship and performance. Based on a sample of 189 Cypriot importers, the study revealed that similarities in national, corporate, and personal values between importers and their foreign suppliers are negatively related to unethical marketing practices of the latter as perceived by the former, and vice versa. Perceived export marketing unethicality, in turn, negatively influences the exporter-importer relationship quality (as expressed in terms of cooperation, communication, trust, and commitment), which subsequently has harmful effects on the performance of the relationship. In addition, the existence of a high similarity in both value strength and ethical codes between importers and their export suppliers was found to positively affect the quality of the working relationship. Finally, the association of both corporate and personal value similarity with perceived export marketing unethicality was found to be moderated by network ties, although this was not evident in the case of national value similarity. The findings of the study have important implications for import managers in terms of properly selecting and handling relationships with their foreign suppliers.

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Business ethics in the NAFTA countries

Cited by 52 publications

References 36 publications

Cultural Values and International Differences in Business Ethics

Cultural Values and International Differences in Business Ethics

Ethical Decision Making of Future Mexican Managers

Value differences as determinants of importers’ perceptions of exporters’ unethical behavior: The impact on relationship quality and performance

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