New trends in codes of ethics: Czech business ethics preferences by the dawn of COVID-19

• Authors: Radka MacGregor Pelikánová , Robert Kenyon MacGregor , Martin Černek

Abstracts

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Research background: The morality and sustainability depend upon the active engagement of all stakeholders. Businesses might have to observe minimum standards via their corporate social responsibility (CSR), but this does not imply any mandatory and enforceable requirements for their internal documents. Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic magnify differences and might impact the perception and commitment to ethics and modify preferences. Purpose of the article: Since it is up to each and every business whether it will issue Codes of Ethics or Codes of Conduct (Codes) and how they will project ethical principles, values and concerns in them, it is both illuminative and instrumental to conduct a massive theoretical and literature review, to identify five aspects for exploration of  Codes: (i) human nature (ii) moral values (iii) ethical principles, (iv) reasoning and (v) sustainability pillars, and to perform such an exploration via a case study at the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Based on a massive theoretical and literature review, five aspects for exploration have been identified and employed in a case study involving twenty Codes of the largest Czech businesses, while focusing on their preferences. This is to be achieved by a holistic advanced content analysis employing meta-analysis and manual Delphi method with Likert scoring by a panel of experts. Findings & value added: The case study reveals that generally Codes prefer (i) Socrates´ perception of human nature, (ii) respect and responsibility as moral values, (iii) the principle of solidarity, (iv) social contract and deontological reasoning and (v) the sustainability social pillar. These findings demonstrate discrepancies and inconsistencies between and also within  these Codes, which often paternalistically reject the multi-stakeholder approach that is needed to overcome COVID-19. This litigates for the appropriateness of this new methodology and encourages further longitudinal case studies entailing more jurisdictions and industries.

Keywords

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code of conduct; code of ethics; COVID-19; ethical reasoning; enterprise sustainability

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Gospodarczych
• Journal: Oeconomia Copernicana
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 973-1009

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

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Radka MacGregor Pelikánová

• Metropolitan University Prague

• https://orcid.org/0000000196287146

author

Robert Kenyon MacGregor

• Metropolitan University Prague

• https://orcid.org/0000000328883880

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Martin Černek

• PRIGO University

• https://orcid.org/0000000304742880

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DOI

10.24136/oc.2021.032

Biblioteka Nauki

19233722