caa a22 4500 605485801 CHVBK 20210128100442.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2144-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2144-5 Top Management Ethical Leadership and Firm Performance: Mediating Role of Ethical and Procedural Justice Climate [Elektronische Daten] [Yuhyung Shin, Sun Sung, Jin Choi, Min Kim] Despite the prevailing discourses on the importance of top management ethical leadership, related theoretical and empirical developments are lacking. Drawing on institutional theory, we propose that top management ethical leadership contributes to organizational outcomes by promoting firm-level ethical and procedural justice climates. This theoretical framework was empirically tested using multi-source data obtained from 4,468 employees of 147 Korean companies from various industries. The firm-level analysis shows that top management ethical leadership significantly predicts ethical climate, which then results in procedural justice climate that fully mediates the effects of top management ethical leadership on two organizational outcomes, namely, firm-level organizational citizenship behavior and firm financial performance. The present study provides a plausible theoretical account and empirical validation of a mechanism through which top management ethical leadership enhances organizational performance. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Top management nationallicence Ethical leadership nationallicence Ethical climate nationallicence Procedural justice climate nationallicence Organizational citizenship behavior nationallicence Financial performance nationallicence Shin Yuhyung School of Business, Hanyang University, Wangsimni-ro, 222, Seongdong-gu, 133-791, Seoul, South Korea aut Sung Sun School of Business, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road, 210093, Nanjing, People's Republic of China aut Choi Jin College of Business Administration, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, 151-916, Seoul, South Korea aut Kim Min School of Business, Hanyang University, Wangsimni-ro, 222, Seongdong-gu, 133-791, Seoul, South Korea aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 129/1(2015-06-01), 43-57 0167-4544 129:1<43 2015 129 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2144-5 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/s10551-014-2144-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shin Yuhyung School of Business, Hanyang University, Wangsimni-ro, 222, Seongdong-gu, 133-791, Seoul, South Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sung Sun School of Business, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road, 210093, Nanjing, People's Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Choi Jin College of Business Administration, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, 151-916, Seoul, South Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kim Min School of Business, Hanyang University, Wangsimni-ro, 222, Seongdong-gu, 133-791, Seoul, South Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 129/1(2015-06-01), 43-57 0167-4544 129:1<43 2015 129 10551