@article{7e27e0cd4aeb4a199f548e26a8262785,
title = "Corporate Codes of Conduct",
abstract = "A survey of 673 financial officers of U.S. corporations finds that having a corporate code of conduct is becoming the norm. A content analysis identifies seventeen subject areas found in the codes, but discovers little agreement on what subjects a code should cover.",
author = "White, {Bernard J.} and Montgomery, {B. Ruth}",
note = "Funding Information: Bernard J. Whitei san associate professor of organi- zational behaviora nd industriarl elationsin the GraduateS choolo f BusinessA dministratiaonnd a faculty associatei n theI nstitutfeo rS ocialR esearch at the University of Michigan. He recentlypa rtic-ipated in a majors tudyo fi nternaclo ntroproblems l and practices in U.S. corporations and of corporate response to the ForeignC orruptP racticeAs ctof 977, thatw as funded by the FinanciaEl xecutives ResearchF oundationD. ata presented in this paper were gathered in that study. His otherr esearchan d teaching interestisn cludeo rganizatiodne signand development and humanr esourcemanagement. Funding Information: knowna bout theiru se and design. The data reported in thisa rticlew ered rawnf roma ma-jor study of internalc ontrolpractices in U.S. corporations, which was sponsored by the FinancialE xecutivesR esearchF oundationa nd conducted in ?979 by an interdisciplinary faculty teamo ft heUniversity of Michigan Bus- iness School. A survey was sent to the chief financialo fficeros f twot housandU .S. corpo- rations:t he Fortune? 00 and a randoms am-ple of one thousandm emberso f theF inancial Executives Institute. Questions were posed about codes of conduct in the respondent's company: does one exist?w ho receivesi t?a re proceduress tipulatedfor handling violations? The respondent wasa skedt o return along with the questionnaire a copy of the company's code of conduct, ifo ne existed.O f the nearly seven hundred questionnaires returned, almost threeh undredi ncludedc odeso fc onduct. This article presents the survey resultsa nd re-ports on a content analysis of a random sample of thirty(? percent) of the codes received, along witha numbero f conclusionasb outt he currents tate of codes of conducta nd their futureu se byc orporations.",
year = "1980",
doi = "10.2307/41164921",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "23",
pages = "80--87",
journal = "California Management Review",
issn = "0008-1256",
publisher = "Haas School of Business",
number = "2",
}