ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICAL DECISION MAKING IN THE U.S. METAL-FINISHING INDUSTRY.
研究美国金属精加工行业管理者的环境伦理决策意向，发现后果严重性会调节态度、主观规范和感知行为控制等因素与决策意向的关系。
We investigated the individual and contextual influences shaping the environmental ethical decision intentions of a sample of managers in the U.S. metal-finishing industry in this study.Ajzen's (1991) theory of planned behavior and Jones's (1991) moral intensity construct grounded our theoretical framework.Findings revealed that the magnitude of consequences, a dimension of moral intensity, moderated the relationships between each of five antecedents-attitudes, subjective norms, and three perceived behavioral control factors (self-efficacy, financial cost, and ethical climate)and managers' environmental ethical decision intentions.We then developed implications for theory and practice in environmental ethical decision making.When addressing the management of organizations in the natural environment, it is misleading to say that environmental problems and risks are becoming an issue of relevance for business organizations.Indeed, researchers have documented that such a well-known historical figure as Benjamin Franklin sought in 1739 to stop local businesses from polluting a small creek that ran through Philadelphia (Neuzil & Kovarik, 1996).Today it is recognized by some that "there are few significant man-made environmental problems (or woman-