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Journal of International Business Studies Vol. 40 No. 6 2009

Ethical preferences for influencing superiors: A 41-society study

David A. Ralston1; Carolyn P. Egri2; María Teresa de la Garza Carranza; Prem Ramburuth3; Jane Terpstra-Tong4; Andre Pekerti5; Ilya Girson6; Harald Herrig7; Marina Dabic; Moureen Tang8; Paulina Wan8; Philip Hallinger9; Ian Palmer10; Detelin S Elenkov11; Olivier Furrer12; Vojko V Potocan; Florian von Wangenheim13; Isabelle Maignan14; Pamela L. Perrewé15; Ana Maria Rossi16; Tomasz Lenartowicz17; Donna E Ledgerwood18; Ruth C May19; Mark J Weber20,21; Jorge C Jesuino; Ping Ping Fu22; Irina Naoumova23; Tania Casado24; Liesl Riddle25; Malika Richards26; Arif N Butt27; Wade Danis28; Francisco Castro29; Jaime Ruiz-Gutiérrez30; Laurie P. Milton31; Mahfooz A Ansari32; David Brock33; Narasimhan Srinivasan; Arunas Starkus34; Tevfik Dalgic; Fidel León-Darder; Hung Vu Thanh35; Yong-lin Moon36; Ho Beng Chia37; Min-Hsun Christine Kuo; Mario Marco Molteni38,39; Maria Kangasniemi40,41; Kamel Mellahi42; Alan Wallace1

1 University of Oklahoma · 2 Simon Fraser University · 3 UNSW Sydney · 4 Monash University Malaysia · 5 The University of Queensland · 6 University of Westminster · 7 Grenoble Ecole de Management · 8 Lingnan University · 9 Cengage Learning (United Kingdom) · 10 University of Technology Sydney · 11 University of Tennessee at Knoxville · 12 Radboud University Nijmegen · 13 Technical University of Munich · 14 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · 15 Florida State University · 16 Clinica De Stress E Biofeedback · 17 Florida Atlantic University · 18 University of North Texas · 19 University of Dallas · 20 University of Minnesota · 21 Twin Cities Orthopedics · 22 Chinese University of Hong Kong · 23 University of Hartford · 24 Universidade de São Paulo · 25 George Washington University · 26 Pennsylvania State University · 27 Lahore University of Management Sciences · 28 Georgia State University · 29 Universidade do Porto · 30 Universidad de Los Andes · 31 Western University · 32 University of Lethbridge · 33 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev · 34 Centre for International Business and Economic Research' Vilnius · 35 National Economics University · 36 Seoul National University · 37 National University of Singapore · 38 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · 39 University of the Sacred Heart · 40 University of Eastern Finland · 41 Finland University · 42 University of Sheffield

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Abstract

With a 41-society sample of 9990 managers and professionals, we used hierarchical linear modeling to investigate the impact of both macro-level and micro-level predictors on subordinate influence ethics. While we found that both macro-level and micro-level predictors contributed to the model definition, we also found global agreement for a subordinate influence ethics hierarchy. Thus our findings provide evidence that developing a global model of subordinate ethics is possible, and should be based upon multiple criteria and multilevel variables.

DOI
10.1057/jibs.2008.109
Volume
40
Issue
6
Pages
1022-1045
Language
en
Sources
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