Environmental ethical decision making in the US metal-finishing industry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Flannery, BL; May, DR
• 署名单位: Minnesota State Colleges & Universities; Minnesota State University Mankato; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/1556359
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 642-662
• 关键词: PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL-CONTROL; ISSUE-CONTINGENT MODEL; PLANNED BEHAVIOR; MORAL INTENSITY; SITUATIONAL FACTORS; REASONED ACTION; ORGANIZATIONS; intentions; prediction; attitudes

摘要

We investigated the individual and contextual influences shaping the environmental ethical decision intentions of a sample of managers in the U.S. metal-finishing industry in this study. Ajzen's (1991) theory of planned behavior and Jones's (1991) moral intensity construct grounded our theoretical framework. Findings revealed that the magnitude of consequences, a dimension of moral intensity, moderated the relationships between each of five antecedents-attitudes, subjective norms, and three perceived behavioral control factors (self-efficacy, financial cost, and ethical climate)-and managers' environmental ethical decision intentions. We then developed implications for theory and practice in environmental ethical decision making.