Browsing by Author "Weaver, Gary R."

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    Corporate Ethics Programs as Control Systems: Influences of Executive Commitment and Environmental Factors
    (Academy of Management Journal, 1999) Weaver, Gary R.; Trevino, Linda Klebe; Cochran, Philip L.
    Our study asked why corporations introduce formal programs to manage ethics and why those programs display varying characteristics. We used control theory to delineate an ethics program's scope and its orientation toward compliance- and values-based control. Managerial choice theory suggests that environmental factors and management's ethical commitment will influence these dimensions. Environmental factors were the stronger influences on scope, but management commitment was the stronger determinant of control orientation. Research and policy implications are discussed.
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    Integrated and Decoupled Corporate Social Performance: Management Commitments, External Pressures, and Corporate Ethics Practices
    (Academy of Management Journal, 1999) Weaver, Gary R.; Trevino, Linda Klebe; Cochran, Philip L.
    Corporations can respond to expectations for socially responsible processes and outcomes in organizationally integrated ways or in easily decoupled fashion. This study focused on a particular type of socially responsible organizational process: formal corporate ethics programs. Theory suggests that external pressures for social performance encourage easily decoupled processes but that top management commitments can encourage both easily decoupled and integrated processes. Analysis of survey and archival data generally supported this position. Implications for social performance research, practice, and public policy are discussed.