A New Approach to Evaluating Business Ethics

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mo Adam Mahmood ◽  
Gary L. Sullivan ◽  
Ray-Lin Tung
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
New Approach

A New Approach to Evaluating Business Ethics

2011 ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Mo Adam Mahmood ◽  
Gary L. Sullivan ◽  
Ray-Lin Tung
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Multiple Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Comparative Performance ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Artificial Neural

Stimulated by recent high-profile incidents, concerns about business ethics have increased over the last decade. In response, research has focused on developing theoretical and empirical frameworks to understand ethical decision making. So far, empirical studies have used traditional quantitative tools, such as regression or multiple discriminant analysis (MDA), in ethics research. More advanced tools are needed. In this exploratory research, a new approach to classifying, categorizing and analyzing ethical decision situations is presented. A comparative performance analysis of artificial neural networks, MDA and chance showed that artificial neural networks predict better in both training and testing phases. While some limitations of this approach were noted, in the field of business ethics, such networks are promising as an alternative to traditional analytic tools like MDA.

A New Approach to Evaluating Business Ethics

2002 ◽  
pp. 334-350
Author(s):  
Mo Adam Mahmood ◽  
Gary L. Sullivan ◽  
Ray-Lin Tung
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Multiple Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Comparative Performance ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Artificial Neural

Stimulated by recent high-profile incidents, concerns about business ethics have increased over the last decade. In response, research has focused on developing theoretical and empirical frameworks to understand ethical decision making. So far, empirical studies have used traditional quantitative tools, such as regression or multiple discriminant analysis (MDA), in ethics research. More advanced tools are needed. In this exploratory research, a new approach to classifying, categorizing and analyzing ethical decision situations is presented. A comparative performance analysis of artificial neural networks, MDA and chance showed that artificial neural networks predict better in both training and testing phases. While some limitations of this approach were noted, in the field of business ethics, such networks are promising as an alternative to traditional analytic tools like MDA.

scholarly journals Driven to excess? Linking calling, character and the (mis)behaviour of marketers

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Woodall
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
Economic Character

We are presently at a point of unique circumstantial convergence where recession, an increased emphasis on business ethics, and marketer’s reluctance to accept shifting social agendas have combined to identify the need for a new approach to marketing. Using concepts from the human resources, marketing and psychology literatures, and especially Erich Fromm’s ideas concerning economic character, this paper posits that marketers – as a professional community – are driven to promote consumerist outcomes; victims of an automaton amalgam of calling and character. The analysis suggests the vulnerability of both marketer and consumer are mutually reinforcing and that we need, somehow, to break this damaging cycle of dependence. We know little, however, about how marketers think and feel about their discipline, so this paper also promotes an agenda for marketer behaviour research, as a countervailing balance to a currently disproportionate focus on the consumer.

A New Approach to Evaluating Business Ethics

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mo Adam Mahmood ◽  
Gary L. Sullivan ◽  
Ray-Lin Tung
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
New Approach

Psychological Pragmatism and the Imperative of Aims: A New Approach for business Ethics

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Margolis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Organizational Levels

Abstract:Psychological forces in play across individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis increase the likelihood that people in business organizations will engage in misconduct. Therefore, it is argued, we must turn our attention from dominant normative and empirical trends in business ethics, which revolve around boundaries and constraints, and instead concentrate on methods for promoting ethical behavior in practice, exploiting psychological forces conducive to ethical conduct. This calls for a better understanding of how organizations and their inhabitants function, and, in turn, it points to pragmatic solutions. Ethical conduct can be promoted by (1) normatively justifying vivid aims worthy of pursuit alongside economic objectives, and (2) empirically identifying the conditions and practices that advance those aims in firms. This approach challenges us to bring empirical and normative inquiry together—in ways unsettling to both. It pushes us to move beyond an empirical preoccupation with decision making and judgment, and it requires us to cope with political liberalism’s legitimate qualms about discussions of the good.

The O–C diagrams of minor planets − a new approach to modelling the rotation

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Gy. Szabó ◽  
K. Sárneczky ◽  
L.L. Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Error Analysis ◽  
Time Dependence ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Ccd Observations

AbstractA widely used tool in studying quasi-monoperiodic processes is the O–C diagram. This paper deals with the application of this diagram in minor planet studies. The main difference between our approach and the classical O–C diagram is that we transform the epoch (=time) dependence into the geocentric longitude domain. We outline a rotation modelling using this modified O–C and illustrate the abilities with detailed error analysis. The primary assumption, that the monotonity and the shape of this diagram is (almost) independent of the geometry of the asteroids is discussed and tested. The monotonity enables an unambiguous distinction between the prograde and retrograde rotation, thus the four-fold (or in some cases the two-fold) ambiguities can be avoided. This turned out to be the main advantage of the O–C examination. As an extension to the theoretical work, we present some preliminary results on 1727 Mette based on new CCD observations.

A New Approach to the Demonstration of Oxidase-Localization Using Tannic Acid Or Catechin

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 698-699
Author(s):  
V. Mizuhira ◽  
Y. Futaesaku
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Tannic Acid ◽  
Elastic Fiber ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Tissue Block ◽  
Active Reaction ◽  
The Cross

Previously we reported that tannic acid is a very effective fixative for proteins including polypeptides. Especially, in the cross section of microtubules, thirteen submits in A-tubule and eleven in B-tubule could be observed very clearly. An elastic fiber could be demonstrated very clearly, as an electron opaque, homogeneous fiber. However, tannic acid did not penetrate into the deep portion of the tissue-block. So we tried Catechin. This shows almost the same chemical natures as that of proteins, as tannic acid. Moreover, we thought that catechin should have two active-reaction sites, one is phenol,and the other is catechole. Catechole site should react with osmium, to make Os- black. Phenol-site should react with peroxidase existing perhydroxide.

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