How and When Ethics Lead to Organizational Performance: Evidence from South Asian Firms

Rizwan Raheem Ahmed (), Munwar Hussain Pahi, Shahid Nadeem, Riaz Hussain Soomro, Vishnu Parmar, Fouzia Nasir and Faiz Ahmed
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Rizwan Raheem Ahmed: Faculty of Management Sciences, Indus University, Block-17, Gulshan, Karachi 75300, Pakistan
Munwar Hussain Pahi: College of Management Science, Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology, Korangi Creek, Karachi 75190, Pakistan
Shahid Nadeem: Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Johar Town, Lahore 54590, Pakistan
Riaz Hussain Soomro: Institute of Business and Health Management, Dow University of Health Sciences, Mission Road, Karachi 74200, Pakistan
Vishnu Parmar: Institute of Business Administration, University of Sindh, Jamshoro 76080, Pakistan
Fouzia Nasir: Department of Business Administration, KASB Institute of Technology, Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society (S.M.C.H.S), Off Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi 74400, Pakistan
Faiz Ahmed: Department of Public Administration, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 10, 1-29

Abstract: The objective of this paper was to examine the influence of determinants of business ethics, for instance, HR management ethics, ethics in corporate governance, and ethics in sales and marketing on organizational performance. The paper also examined mediation of human capital, structural capital and relational capital (dimensions of intellectual capital) in the connection between business ethics and organizational performance. Additionally, this research examined show technological change moderates between business ethics and organizational performance. Researchers collected 474 responses from March 2022 to November 2022 from the information technology sector in various cities in South Asian countries, including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, through structured questionnaires. PLS-SEM modeling was used for data analysis; we evaluated the measurement and structural models for this purpose. The research results suggest that ethics in corporate governance, HR management ethics, and ethics in sales and marketing have a notably positive effect on business ethics, leading to a substantial and affirmative impact on organizational performance. The findings also revealed a significant mediating influence of human capital, structural capital, and relational capital between exogenous variables and organizational performance. The findings further suggest that technological change significantly and positively moderates the relationship between business ethics and organizational performance in the high-tech industry. This research offers a novel modified conceptual framework that provides substantial theoretical and managerial implications to research scholars and industry practitioners.

Keywords: business ethics; organizational performance; ethics in corporate governance; ethics in sales and marketing; HR management ethics; intellectual capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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