Claver-Cortés, Enrique, Llopis, Juan, Gascó, José L.
A corporate culture pattern to manage business ethics
CLAVER CORTÉS, Enrique; LLOPIS TAVERNER, Juan; GASCÓ GASCÓ, José Luis. “A corporate culture pattern to manage business ethics”. International Journal of Value-Based Management. Vol. 15, No. 1 (Jan. 2002). ISSN 0895-8815, pp. 151-163
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/1672
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015269711762
ISSN: 0895-8815
Abstract: 
Within the general frame of proposals for an adequate management of business ethics, this paper is based on the vision of corporate culture as a pattern to achieve such purpose. If we consider ethics as a specific value of corporate culture, we may resort to the mechanism of cultural change and implementation in order to manage ethics. Despite the difficulties it entails in terms of time and money investment, this procedure is one of the safest ways to reach ethical values which are known, shared and then practiced by all the members of a corporation, whatever the category. From this central standpoint, and basing ourselves on our own proposal for the management of culture, we shall describe which specific steps must be taken in order to achieve a set of ethical values which are both realistic and furthermore shared by all collaborators of an organization.
Keywords:Organizational culture, Business ethics, Organizational change
Springer Netherlands
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