 Does the Ethical Leadership of Supervisors Generate Internal Social Capital?David Pastoriza () and Miguel Ariño () Journal of Business Ethics, 2013, vol. 118, issue 1, 12 pages Abstract: Ethics has recently gained prominence in debates surrounding social capital creation. Despite the significant theoretical progress in this field, it still lacks empirical research. The goal of this study is to empirically explore the ethical leadership of supervisors as an antecedent of the firm’s social capital. We build on social learning theory to argue that employees can learn standards of appropriate behavior by observing the behavior of role models. By displaying and enforcing ethical behavior, supervisors can facilitate the process through which employees learn to feel empathy toward others and establish profound affective relationships with them. Data were collected from 408 Spanish, French, and Portuguese part-time MBA students. Using structural equation modeling techniques, we show that the ethical leadership of supervisors exerts a significant influence on the structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Keywords: Ethical leadership; Supervisor; Internal social capital; Social learning; Structural equation modeling (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:kap:jbuset:v:118:y:2013:i:1:p:1-12 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1536-7 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Ethics is currently edited by Michelle Greenwood and R. Edward Freeman More articles in Journal of Business Ethics from Springer |
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