caa a22 4500 605483027 CHVBK 20210128100429.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2124-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2124-9 Doing Well by Doing Good? Analyzing the Relationship Between CEO Ethical Leadership and Firm Performance [Elektronische Daten] [Silke Eisenbeiss, Daan van Knippenberg, Clemens Fahrbach] Business ethics and firm economic performance have traditionally often been regarded as mutually exclusive ends. We challenge this "either-or” belief and analyze when and how ethical firm leadership and firm performance may harmonize well. In extension of earlier research on ethical leadership and performance at the individual and team level, we study the context-dependency of the organization level relationship between CEO ethical leadership and firm performance. We propose a moderated mediation model of the link between CEO ethical leadership and firm performance, identifying mediating (organizational ethical culture) and moderating (organizational ethics program) variables unique to the organization-level of analysis. CEO ethical leadership is argued to work through organizational ethical culture which promotes firm performance under the condition that there is a strong corporate ethics program in place. Results from a multisource cross-sectional study, in which we surveyed 145 participants from 32 organizations and validated organizational performance ratings by objective performance data, showed support for our conceptual model. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 CEO leadership nationallicence Corporate ethics program nationallicence Ethical leadership nationallicence Firm performance nationallicence Organizational ethical culture nationallicence Eisenbeiss Silke University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany aut van Knippenberg Daan Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut Fahrbach Clemens Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/3(2015-05-01), 635-651 0167-4544 128:3<635 2015 128 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2124-9 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/s10551-014-2124-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eisenbeiss Silke University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van Knippenberg Daan Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fahrbach Clemens Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/3(2015-05-01), 635-651 0167-4544 128:3<635 2015 128 10551