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A content analysis of codes of ethics in Australian enterprises
Abstract
Points out that the trend in the USA and the UK to adopt business codes of ethics has been followed in recent years by Australian business organizations. Presents findings from two studies which involved the top 500 Australian enterprises. The first examined the likelihood of code adoption in relation to such variables as organization type, size, income and major activities. The second was concerned with the actual nature of the content to determine whether codes were designed to deal with ethical issues, corporate values and ethical decision skills rather than with management policies and legal issues; and whether a code was in fact a code of ethics as opposed to rules on business etiquette and behaviour.
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“The mean of the codes' lengths, 633 words, was shorter than the mean length of the accountants' codes of ethics, which is 10,183 words (Farrell & Cobbin, 2000), and shorter than the mean length of the Australian organizations' codes of ethics, which is 1982 words (Farrell & Cobbin, 1996).”
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- Authors
- Farrell, B. J., & Cobbin, D. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- ORCID
- Cobbin, Deirdre M.
- Venue
- Journal of Managerial Psychology
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 1996-02-01
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 37-55
- ISSN
- 0268-3946 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2147271049
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 4 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 2.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Managerial Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Ethics in Business and Education
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
- Keywords
- code of ethics, business ethics, code adoption, organizational values, ethical decision-making, organizational size, business etiquette, management policy, legal issues
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