The Effect of Context on Moral Intensity of Ethical Issues: Revising Jones's Issue-Contingent Model

By Patricia C. Kelley, Dawn R. Elm. 2003

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The Impact of Perceived Ethical Culture of the Firm and Demographic Variables on Auditors’ Ethical Evaluation and Intention to Act Decisions (2010, background): “The relationship between ethical culture and ethical decision making may be partially mediated by perceived ethical intensity as suggested by Kelley and Elm (2003). Furthermore, interaction effects between perceived ethical intensity and other independent variables should be considered.”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Socially Responsible Investing: A Global Perspective (2007, background): “These "buyers" are likely to frame their evaluations of alternative products or stock offerings within the context of the parent companies' alignment with their beliefs and values (Kelley and Elm, 2003).”
Effects of the Use of the Availability Heuristic on Ethical Decision-Making in Organizations (2009, background): “Others have pointed out that the potential exists that cognitive processes will affect individuals’ perceptions of moral intensity (Kelley and Elm, 2003).”
The role of construction, intuition, and justification in responding to ethical issues at work: The sensemaking-intuition model (2007, background): “Closing a factory, building SUVs that require more fuel than standard cars, cheating a supplier—all of these can be constructed by managers as “business issues” because their expectations tell them so and because the context of business pushes them in this direction (Kelley & Elm, 2003).”