Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Ethics is a critical element of business relationship. This is often \nnarrowed down to corruption in the context of purchasing management, \nhowever it is a much more complex problem. Since the large scale research \nprojects of the 1990s only a few studies have been devoted to investigate this \ntopic. This paper aims to identify current ethical issues in purchasing and \nexamines perceptions on ethical issues. A literature review, which helped in \nthe questionnaire development, will be provided and the survey results will \nbe presented. Results suggest that although the awareness of environmental \nand social aspects has grown, the perceptions of the existence of ethical issues \nhave not changed in the last decades. An important message is that the \nhypernorms of multinational companies help to standardise ethical issues and \nlink them to CSR and environmental aspects. Perceptions of ethical issues are \nlikely to be affected by communication and professional knowledge \nweaknesses as well.
Authors: Gyöngyi Vörösmarty, Zsolt Matyusz
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2901705281