A Test of Environmental, Situational, and Personal Influences on the Ethical Intentions of CEOs
通过对制造业CEO的全国调查，研究环境压力、机会情境和个人特质如何影响CEO在获取竞争对手技术秘密和贿赂外国官员等不当行为上的意图，发现个人倾向比环境或情境因素影响更大。
A national survey of CEOs of manufacturing firms was conducted to identify factors explaining CEOs' intentions to engage in two questionable business practices: soliciting a competitor's technological secrets and making payments to foreign government officials to secure business. Drawing on research in corporate misconduct, ethical decision making, and strategic management, the authors analyzed ethical intentions by looking at hostile environmental conditions, opportunity-rich situations, and/or personal characteristics. Based on responses to scenarios, their findings suggest that the ethical intentions of CEOs may be more affected by the decision maker's predisposition than by environmental pressures or organizational/situational characteristics.