 Skilled workforces and Law-abiding organizational climates in emerging marketsShoeb Mohammad and Bryan Husted Journal of Business Research, 2023, vol. 158, issue C Abstract: Scarcity of skilled workers in the emerging markets is considered a severe challenge facing organizations since it limits the quality and depth of their labour force. We explore an understudied problem associated with skilled worker scarcity, its impact on a firm’s adherence to the law. Drawing on the lens of anomie theory, we hypothesize that a skilled workforce positively impacts a firm’s law-abiding organizational climate. This is due both to ethical values associated with the education of skilled workers and their positive impact on an organization’s ability to adapt to its environment. Furthermore, we explain the impact that managerial ties have on this relationship, hypothesizing how ties with industry firms and ties with government influence a firm’s adherence to law-abiding norms. Hypotheses were tested with survey data collected from 150 Mexican companies. Our study contributes by shedding light on an understudied cause of the wide-spread illegality that plagues emerging markets. Keywords: Law-abiding climate; Skilled workers; Organizational adaptability; Managerial ties; Emerging markets; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:158:y:2023:i:c:s014829632200995x DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113530 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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