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Determination of the Relationship Between Ethical Positions and Intended Behavior Among Managers (open access)

Determination of the Relationship Between Ethical Positions and Intended Behavior Among Managers

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between managers' ethical positions and their intended behavior.
Date: December 1993
Creator: Moore, Jan R. (Jan Roxy)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corporate Entrepreneurship: Strategic and Structural Correlates and Impact on the Global Presence of United States Firms (open access)

Corporate Entrepreneurship: Strategic and Structural Correlates and Impact on the Global Presence of United States Firms

Corporate entrepreneurship, its correlates, and its impact on the global presence of firms were examined through 439 United States companies, represented in all geographic realms of the world. Executives responded to a lengthy survey of organizational characteristics which enabled corporate entrepreneurship and its dimensions--innovation, proactiveness, and risk taking--to be examined in firms with varying global presence. Risk factors were assigned to countries and realms from the averaged rankings of three published risk-forecasting services. Maximum risk country, maximum risk geographic realm, average risk of countries, average risk of geographic realms, number of countries, and number of geographic realms, were differentially weighted to equalize scales and combined into a composite global presence scale. Strategy-related variables--competitive aggressiveness and adaptiveness--dominated other organizational attributes in explaining corporate entrepreneurship, and corporate entrepreneurship dominated other variables in explaining global presence, according to correlation and multiple regression analysis. Although no variables correlated strongly with measures of global presence, corporate entrepreneurship consistently had significant positive correlations across all six measures of global presence and the composite global presence scale. In forward stepwise multiple regressions, corporate entrepreneurship was the first variable entered into the prediction equation for five of the six measures of global presence; only when the dependent variable …
Date: May 1993
Creator: Dean, Carol Carlson
System: The UNT Digital Library