Ethical Business Cultures in Emerging Markets

Description

Previous research on corporate cultures and ethical business cultures has focused almost exclusively on studies of multinational corporations from a handful of developed countries. This book addresses the intersection of human resource development and human resource management with ethical business cultures in the four BRIC countries, and four other fast-growing emerging economies: those of Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey. Drawing on longitudinal large-scale survey-based studies, it compares managers' and employees' perceptions of ethical business cultures in these countries, contrasting them with the US economy. It then discusses the economic and socio-cultural context and current research on business ethics in each of these countries, including implications for research and practice. This significant study will appeal to scholars, researchers and students in business ethics, management, human resource management and development, and organization studies, and addresses issues faced daily by business executives and practitioners working in emerging market countries.

Douglas Jondle is a consultant with Bains Jondle and Associates LLC, which fosters ethical cultures in a global economy, and is the former research director of the Center for Ethical Business Cultures at the University of St Thomas, Minnesota. His research includes modeling ethical organizational culture, evaluating organizational cultures multiculturally, the development of the Ethical Perception Index and modeling ethical risk management (a cooperative research project between the University of St Thomas, Minnesotas, Veritas Institute and the Copenhagen Business School), and he previously edited the Ethics volume of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Management. Alexandre Ardichvili is professor and Hellervik Endowed Chair in Leadership and Adult Career Development at the University of Minnesota. He is President of the University Council on Work and Human Resource Education, past editor-in-chief of Human Resource Development International and Fellow of the Center for Ethical Business Cultures. Dr Ardichvili has published three books, seventy peer-reviewed articles and eighteen book chapters related to international Human Resource Development, leadership development, entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and business ethics, and knowledge management.