Understanding Research on Values in Business
- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Business & Society
- Vol. 38 (3), 326-387
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000765039903800305
Abstract
Researchers in all management specialties have discussed and investigated the important role values play in personal and organizational phenomena. However, because research on values has been performed in a wide range of social science disciplines and at different levels of analysis, much of thiswork has been uninformed by other work and is neither well integrated nor systematized, resulting in a great deal of confusion concerning the topic. This article attempts to add order and clarity to this area of research by proposing a framework of values research based on level of analysis and by cataloguing and reviewing the vast theoretical and empirical research in light of this framework. It concludes with a critique of the extant literature and recommendations for further research.Keywords
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