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