Ethical structures and processes of corporations operating in Australia, Canada and Sweden : A longitudinal and cross-cultural study Svensson, Göran, Wood, Greg, Singh, Jang, Carasco, Emily and Callaghan, Michael 2009, Ethical structures and processes of corporations operating in Australia, Canada and Sweden : A longitudinal and cross-cultural study, Journal of business ethics, vol. 86, no. 4, pp. 485-506, doi: 10.1007/s10551-008-9860-7. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Ethical structures and processes of corporations operating in Australia, Canada and Sweden : A longitudinal and cross-cultural study Author(s) Svensson, Göran Wood, Greg Singh, Jang Carasco, Emily Callaghan, Michael orcid.org/0000-0001-6601-4980 Journal name Journal of business ethics Volume number 86 Issue number 4 Start page 485 End page 506 Total pages 22 Publisher Springer Netherlands Place of publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publication date 2009-06 ISSN 0167-4544 1573-0697 Keyword(s) codes of ethics cross-cultural empirical ethical structures and processes longitudinal Australia Canada Sweden Summary Based on the ‘Partnership Model of Corporate Ethics’ (Wood, 2002), this study examines the ethical structures and processes that are put in place by organizations to enhance the ethical business behavior of staff. The study examines the use of these structures and processes amongst the top companies in the three countries of Australia, Canada, and Sweden over two time periods (2001–2002 and 2005–2006). Subsequently, a combined comparative and longitudinal approach is applied in the study, which we contend is a unique approach in the area of business ethics. The findings of the study indicate that corporations operating in Sweden have utilized ethical structures and processes differently than their Canadian and/or Australian counterparts, and that in each culture the way that companies fashion their approach to business ethics appears congruent with their national cultural values. There does, however, appear to be a convergence of views within the organizations of each culture, as the Swedish companies appear to have been more influenced in 2005–2006 by an Anglo-Saxon business paradigm than they have been in the past. Language eng DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9860-7 Field of Research 220102 Business Ethics Socio Economic Objective 950402 Business Ethics HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article HERDC collection year 2009 Copyright notice ©2008, Springer Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30016692 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Business and Law School of Management and Marketing Higher Education Research Group Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 16 Jul 2009, 16:04:07 EST Fri, 17 Jul 2009, 09:48:17 EST Fri, 17 Jul 2009, 09:49:24 EST Fri, 17 Jul 2009, 11:21:45 EST Mon, 19 Oct 2009, 13:49:13 EST Tue, 20 Oct 2009, 11:29:01 EST Tue, 20 Oct 2009, 11:29:57 EST Fri, 20 Nov 2009, 12:56:53 EST Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 12:49:00 EST Thu, 16 Feb 2012, 08:45:14 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 11:23:34 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 15:24:23 EST Wed, 27 Aug 2014, 21:51:31 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 11 times in TR Web of Science Cited 12 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1253 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 16 Jul 2009, 16:04:03 EST by Lee-Ann Stones