Is cross-cultural management studies morally mute? Cross-cultural management and ethics

摘要

Over the years, we have published little directly on the connection between cross-cultural management and ethics. In fact, these only amount to half a dozen over 14 years. This includes, in the current issue, the interesting article by Molthan-Hill (2014) "The Moral Muteness of Managers: An Anglo-American Phenomenon? German and British Managers and Their Moral Reasoning About Environmental Sustainability in Business', which explores a connection between culture and assumptions about moral neutrality in business.