The purpose of this study is to explore relationships between company’s characteristics, the status of business ethics education, employee perceptions of corporate business ethics, and organizational performance. A total of 161 small- and medium-sized apparel companies participated in a survey and data was analyzed using cross-tabulation, ANOVA, and SPSS PROCESS. The results show that, larger companies involved with export are more likely to implement business ethics education, whereas no company characteristic is associated with perceptions of corporate business ethics. Furthermore, apparel companies that implemented or planned to implement business ethics education, have employees with more positive perceptions of corporate business ethics and better organizational performance than fashion companies that have no plan to implement such education. In addition, companies in the apparel sector with higher employee perceptions of corporate business ethics had greater organizational performance than apparel companies with lower employee perceptions of corporate business ethics. This study emphasizes the need to implement business ethics education to enhance employee perceptions of company business ethics, which in turn promotes organizational performance. It is expected that the results of this study will positively affect the development and expansion of business ethics education programs and contribute to the foundation of knowledge for business ethics education for fashion companies.

기업의 윤리적 이슈는 사회 전체구성원들에게 주목을 받고 있으며 기업의 흥망성쇠에 직접적인 영향 을 준다고 볼 수 있다. 이제는 단순한 선언적 명제로서 윤리경영을 외치던 시대에서 벗어나 윤리경영이 실제적으로 지속적인 경쟁우위의 원천인 시대가 되고 있다. 따라서 윤리경영은 조직구성원에게 지대한 영향을 주며 기업 및 상사의 비윤리적‧비도덕적 행위에 의하여 조직구성원의 이직의도에 실질적인 영향 을 주는 상황에 놓이게 되었다. 그리고 기업에서의 윤리경영 실행, 상사의 윤리적 리더십의 효과를 살펴보 는 데 있어 신뢰가 중요한 매개역할을 수행한다는 주장이 제기되고 있으므로 윤리경영 실행, 상사의 윤리 적 리더십과 이직의도 간의 관계에서 신뢰의 매개역할을 살펴볼 필요가 있다. 특히 본 연구는 대상에 따 른 신뢰 유형인 조직신뢰, 상사신뢰로 구분하여 매개역할을 살펴보면서 윤리경영 실행, 상사의 윤리적 리 더십은 조직신뢰, 상사신뢰에 차별적 영향력이 있다고 보았다. 사회 교환 이론을 토대로 윤리경영 실행은 조직에서 실행하여 조직과 조직구성원 간의 상호 호혜적 교환관계를 형성하고 상사의 윤리적 리더십은 상사가 실행하여 상사와 부하직원 간의 상호 호혜적 교환관계를 형성하므로 윤리경영 실행은 조직신뢰에 더 많은 영향을 주고 상사의 윤리적 리더십은 상사신뢰에 더 많은 영향을 줄 수 있다고 보았다. 이를 실증 분석하기 위하여 550명의 조직구성원에게서 수집된 자료로 윤리경영 실행, 상사의 윤리적 리더십과 이직 의도 간의 관계에서 조직신뢰, 상사신뢰의 매개효과를 살펴보면서 윤리경영 실행, 상사의 윤리적 리더십 이 조직신뢰, 상사신뢰에 미치는 차별적 영향력을 검증하였다. 분석결과를 보면 윤리경영 실행은 조직신 뢰에 정적인 영향을 주지만 상사신뢰에 유의하지 않는 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 상사의 윤리적 리더십은 조직신뢰, 상사신뢰에 정적인 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 매개효과 결과를 보면 윤리경영 실 행과 이직의도 간의 관계에서 조직신뢰는 유의한 매개효과가 있으나 상사신뢰는 매개효과가 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 상사의 윤리적 리더십과 이직의도 간의 관계에서 조직신뢰, 상사신뢰는 유 의한 매개효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 차별적 영향력의 결과를 보면 윤리경영 실행은 상사신뢰보다 조 직신뢰에 더 많은 정적인 영향을 주고 상사의 윤리적 리더십은 조직신뢰보다 상사신뢰에 더 많은 정적인 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과를 토대로 윤리경영 실행, 상사의 윤리적 리더십, 조직신 뢰, 상사신뢰가 이직의도에 미치는 경영학적인 의미와 시사점을 제시하였다.

The purpose of this study was to explore the importance level, the present level, and the educational need for 21 business ethics components among 2-year and 4-year college students majoring in fashion. Survey data of 364 students (128 students of 2-year colleges and 238 students of 4-year colleges) were analyzed through descriptive statistics, Borich’s needs assessment for education, The Locus for Focus model, exploratory factor analysis, and t-test. The results showed five business ethics components ranked highly as educational needs among college students: ‘reducing waste’, ‘using vegan materials’, ‘using human-friendly materials’, ‘strengthening sustainable technologies’, and ‘promoting workers’ rights’. Those components should be integrated into curricula of fashion majors in colleges. Students in 4-year colleges considered most of 21 business ethics components as more important than did students at 2-year colleges. More needs for education were observed by 4-year college students in eight business ethics components than by 2-year college students. In addition, a positive attitude toward business ethics education and the suitability of business ethics education were higher among 4-year college students than 2-year college students. Results provide a guideline for business ethics education by indicating a list of business ethics components that urgently needed to be adapted to fashion curricula according to each college type.

The purpose of the present study was to generate a list of business ethics components according to business area for small and medium-sized fashion companies. Based on the literature review, 21 components of business ethics components were identified within five business areas. Ten CEOs(Chief Executive Officers) each participated in an in-depth interview, sharing ethical and unethical cases from their own businesses. Constant comparative analysis was used to generate important business ethics components from those cases. In results, important business ethics components for each business area are: 1) using human-friendly materials, strengthening sustainable technologies, using vegan materials, concerning safe process, and reducing waste in the material production and sourcing area, 2) enhancing an efficiency in design, developing recycle/reuse designs, avoiding to copy designs, and using messages for public interest in the product design area, 3) concerning fair-trade, reducing harmful substance, saving energy, and using ethical supply channels in the distribution and logistics area, 4) acquiring certifications, promoting consumer protection, avoiding exaggerative/false advertisements, and promoting social contributions in the management and marketing area, and 5) promoting workers’ rights, complying with the law, and investing on employee educations in the labor management area. All of the ethical and unethical cases of the ten companies have involved aspects of the 21 components, thereby enhancing understandings on how each issue is being seriously considered and/or handled in the small and medium-sized fashion companies. Study findings may provide a basis for development of a research model for quantitative studies and/or educational programs related to business ethics in the fashion industry.

Aims: Using text mining techniques to investigate the understudied publication trend and thematic areas in the Confucius Business Ethics relating publications. Methods: Research articles which were published during 1999–2016, were searched in 10 business relating databases on April 9, 2017; resulting a total of 488 articles were included. The titles and abstracts were extracted for the text mining analysis using SAS Text Miner, themes were identified by the Text Topic Node. Publication trend, clustering and associations between themes were analyzed. Results: Eight groups of themes were identified. During 1999–2016, the appearance of the Themes “Confucius Leadership”, “Competitive Advantage”, “Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)", and “Satisfaction and Health” was continuously increasing; meanwhile, research relating to “Chinese Economy” was continuously decreasing; there was a fluctuation trend in that of “Global Ethics”, “Moral and Human Right”, and “Asian Studies”. In the cluster analysis, three main clusters of themes were classified: “Ethics and Leadership”, “Competition and Economy in Asia”, and “CSR and Satisfaction”. Besides, the appearance of “Confucius Leadership” and “Global Ethics”, “Confucius Leadership” and “Moral & Human Right”, “Asia” and “Competitive Advantage”, and “Asia” and “CSR" was positively associated; whereas, that of “Global Ethics” and “China Economy” was negatively associated. Conclusion: The research of Confucius Business Ethics has been focusing on Eastern and Western cross-cultural business ethics, the Confucius ethics and CSR, which was associated with leadership, moral and human rights, in the Global and Asian environments. A call for future research in “Global Ethics” and “China Economy” were suggested.

This paper is demonstrative of values and the imbibed strength of values observed along the value chains of organizations studied by the authors in past two years. The paper is projective of an intense relationship of values based business ethics observed along the value chains of the organizations concerned with the context and the soul of the conventional definition of marketing given by American Marketing Association in 2007. The value chain of a prominent consumer product’s marketers studied through reflexive research approach exemplifies that how business ethics based on values helped in evolving activities, institutions and processes for creating, communicating, delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for the customers, clients, partners and society at large which is actually the definition of marketing be American Marketing Association: Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. (Approved July 2013) Similar observations in the value chains and the marketing process of other organizations validated the fact that if values driven business ethics is followed along the value chain the context of 2007 definition of Marketing gets enlivened.

The purpose of this study was to measure employee ‘awareness’ and ‘practice’ of business ethics in the foodservice industry, and to determine possible correlations between these two variables. Self administrated questionnaires were completed by 1003 employees and data were analysed to ascertain frequency, factor, reliability, correlation and canonical correlation. Two factors were obtained from factor analysis of business ethics(BE) awareness; “Organizational awareness”, and “Individual awareness”. Similarly, two factors were also obtained for business ethics practice; “Systematic practice”, and “Compensatory practice”. Canonical correlation analysis produced two significant functions. For canonical function 1, it was found that organizational awareness of BE was positively correlated with systematic practice. For canonical function 2, it was found that individual awareness of BE was negatively correlated with the compensatory practices of BE. The findings of this study demonstrate that higher organizational awareness of business ethics in the foodservice industry led to higher systematic practices of BE, while higher individual awareness of BE led to lower compensatory practices of BE. In conclusion, higher organizational awareness of BE places a higher priority on building an external system from an institutional perspective, while higher employees awareness of BE leads to higher expectation from the company, resulting in relatively low compensatory practices.

Corporation had been made by important action rule of business ethics that observes legal standard that is prescribed in each class of administration activity. But it does not keep ethicality of corporation action that conforms law. Law can not include all parts of business ethics because it is forcing essential class for public order preservation and public welfare in right. Moreover, partial corporations are doing to justify unethical action of other evasion of taxes, consultation, manufacturing etc. with legal basis meaning abusing legal standard. For these reason, Insistence that is in point of legal standard and ethical standard is not different each other that is in equal viewpoint is brought.