Symbolic or substantive document? The influence of ethics codes on financial executives' decisions

By John M. Stevens, H. Kevin Steensma, David A. Harrison, Philip L. Cochran. 2005

381 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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In Information Systems and Management

1. M. Kaptein
2. Bert Scholtens
3. Lammertjan Dam
4. M. Schwartz
5. Rüdiger Hahn
6. Kent Walker
7. G. Taylor
8. J. Tribó

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. M. Kaptein
2. James D. Westphal
3. Lammertjan Dam
4. Ithai Stern
5. Rüdiger Hahn
6. Kent Walker
7. J. Tribó
8. M. Schwartz

In Strategy and Management

1. Lammertjan Dam
2. Bert Scholtens
3. Petra Christmann
4. G. Taylor
5. Fang Wan
6. M. Schwartz
7. Rüdiger Hahn
8. Kent Walker

Citations in the corpus

• Managerial Entrenchment and Corporate Social Performance (2008, background): “Therefore, under this approach we expect that stakeholder satisfaction will lead to higher commitment, greater effort, and, ultimately, to superior performance (Hosmer, 1994; and Stevens et al., 2005).”
• The Harm of Symbolic Actions and Green-Washing: Corporate Actions and Communications on Environmental Performance and Their Financial Implications (2012, background): “It may be that in visibly polluting industries, because of the heightened stakeholder pressures and scrutiny (Berrone & Gomez-Mejia, 2009; Stevens et al., 2005), firms are expected take real and substantive actions toward environmental performance.”
• Sustainable Behavior in the Business Sphere (2014, positive): “Based on this thinking, the model helps link existing research on the impact of codes of conduct (Somers, 2001; Stevens et al., 2005) with our psychological model of sustainable behavior.”
• Firm self-regulation through international certifiable standards: determinants of symbolic versus substantive implementation (2006, background): “For example, Stevens et al. (2005) found that financial executives in many”
• Cultural Values and International Differences in Business Ethics (2007, background): “The results also complement the conclusions derived from sectoral, country, and functional studies by, among others, Van Tulder and Kolk (2001), Kaptein (2004), Lindfelt (2005), and Stevens et al. (2005).”
• Developing and testing a measure for the ethical culture of organizations: the corporate ethical virtues model (2007, background): “A third fruitful direction for future research is related to studying the effectiveness of ethics measures, such as a written code of ethics (Stevens et al., 2005), ethics training programs (Delaney & Sockell, 1992), and ethics helplines or whistleblower schemes (Near & Miceli, 1995).”