caa a22 4500 60548287X CHVBK 20210128100428.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2078-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2078-y Personal Motives, Moral Disengagement, and Unethical Decisions by Entrepreneurs: Cognitive Mechanisms on the "Slippery Slope” [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Baron, Hao Zhao, Qing Miao] Entrepreneurs sometimes make unethical decisions that have devastating effects on their companies, stakeholders, and themselves. We suggest that insights into the origins of such actions can be acquired through attention to personal motives and their impact on moral disengagement—a cognitive process that deactivates moral self-regulation, thus enabling individuals to behave in ways inconsistent with their own values. We hypothesize that entrepreneurs' motivation for financial gains is positively related to moral disengagement, while their motivation for self-realization is negatively related to this process. Results obtained with a sample of founding entrepreneurs offered support for the first prediction, as well as support for the prediction that moral disengagement is positively related to the tendency to make unethical decisions. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Entrepreneurs nationallicence Moral disengagement nationallicence Ethics nationallicence Career motivation nationallicence Baron Robert Spears School of Business, School of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University, 74078, Stillwater, OK, USA aut Zhao Hao Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, 12180, Troy, NY, USA aut Miao Qing College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/1(2015-04-01), 107-118 0167-4544 128:1<107 2015 128 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2078-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2078-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Baron Robert Spears School of Business, School of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University, 74078, Stillwater, OK, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhao Hao Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, 12180, Troy, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Miao Qing College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/1(2015-04-01), 107-118 0167-4544 128:1<107 2015 128 10551