Universität zu Köln

Ko, Changsuk, Ma, Jianhong, Kang, Mingu, Haney, Mark H., Bartnik, Roman ORCID: 0000-0002-2125-1920, Hwang, David W. and Lee, Daniel Y. (2019). The effect of ethical leadership on purchasers' unethical behavior in China: The moderating role of ethical ideology. J. Purch. Supply Manag., 25 (4). OXFORD: ELSEVIER SCI LTD. ISSN 1873-6505

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Abstract

This paper examines the role of ethical leadership in managing purchasing agents' unethical practices. By focusing on the manager-purchasing agent relationship within a firm's purchasing function, we investigate the effect of the manager's ethical leadership on purchasing agents' unethical behaviors, and explore the moderating role of purchasing agents' ethical ideology in this relationship. Our scenario-based experiment and survey-based empirical study show that a manager's ethical leadership in a purchasing team plays a critical role in reducing purchasing agents' unethical behaviors. More importantly, the results reveal that the negative impact of ethical leadership on unethical behaviors is strengthened when the level of purchasing agents' idealism or relativism is high. In addition, we found that ethical leadership has the strongest negative effect on the unethical behavior of purchasing agents when the agents have high levels of both idealism and relativism.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Ko, Changsuk UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Ma, Jianhong UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kang, Mingu UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Haney, Mark H. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bartnik, Roman UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2125-1920 UNSPECIFIED Hwang, David W. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Lee, Daniel Y. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-131863
DOI:	10.1016/j.pursup.2019.01.002
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Purch. Supply Manag.
Volume:	25
Number:	4
Date:	2019
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1873-6505
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language DECISION-MAKING; MORAL INTENSITY; IMPACT; WORKPLACE; CLIMATE; ORGANIZATIONS; REPUTATION; INTENTION; JUDGMENT; ISSUES Multiple languages Management Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/13186