The structuration of moral capital and unethical behavior: When the organization hits an ethical meltdown / vorgelegt von David Langer. Wuppertal, März 2023
Content
Abstract
Acknowledgment
List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
List of Figures
1 Introduction
2 Conceptual Definitions
2.1 Ethics
2.2 Business Ethics
2.3 Claim for Descriptive Business Ethics
2.4 Unethical Behavior in Organizations
2.5 Morality
2.6 Moral Capital
3 The Structuration of Moral Capital and Unethical Behavior
3.1 Structuration Theory and Methodological Individualism
3.2 The Ideal Case: Moral Capital and Ethical Behavior
3.3 When the Organization Hits an Ethical Meltdown
4 Empirically Calibrated Agent-Based Modeling
4.1 Experimental Study for the Calibration
4.1.1 Core Characteristics of Goal-Setting Theory
4.1.2 Goal-Setting and Unethical Behavior
4.1.3 Hypotheses
4.1.4 Ethics Commission and Data Protection
4.1.5 Method and Measures
4.1.6 Sample Size Planning, Sample, and Inference
4.1.7 Computer-Assisted Text Cleaning
4.1.8 Results
4.1.9 Discussion
4.1.10 Limitations
4.2 Agent-Based Modelling
5 Conclusion and Outlook
References
Appendices
Appendix A: Sequence Plans for the Experiment
Appendix B: Ability Test
Appendix C: Moral Capital Scenarios
Appendix D: German Moral Disengagement about Cheating Scale
Appendix E: German Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale
Appendix F: Goal-Setting Instructions
Appendix G: Sample Size Planning
Appendix H: Rating of the Questionnaire by the Sample
Appendix I: Sample Covariance-Variance and Correlation Residual Matrices