TY - JOUR
T1 - Cluster Analysis of Business Ethics Practices in Peru
AU - Pasco-Dalla-Porta, Mario Marcello
AU - Del Aguila Marchena, Levy
AU - Lau Barba, Milos
AU - Postigo, Julio C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Growing concerns about business ethics has triggered a heterogenous implementation of ethical practices by corporations, particularly in Latin America. To understand this heterogeneity, we analyze ethical practices in a sample of companies in Peru using structured observation and in-depth interviews with compliance officials. We found 3 clusters of companies: ethics-indifferent, ethics-concerned, and ethics-committed firms. Furthermore, the clusters were significantly associated with foreign capital, size, industry, and level of regulation. Our insights are salient to inform policies to improve ethical performance by the corporate world.
AB - Growing concerns about business ethics has triggered a heterogenous implementation of ethical practices by corporations, particularly in Latin America. To understand this heterogeneity, we analyze ethical practices in a sample of companies in Peru using structured observation and in-depth interviews with compliance officials. We found 3 clusters of companies: ethics-indifferent, ethics-concerned, and ethics-committed firms. Furthermore, the clusters were significantly associated with foreign capital, size, industry, and level of regulation. Our insights are salient to inform policies to improve ethical performance by the corporate world.
KW - Applied ethics
KW - Latin American companies
KW - business ethics
KW - ethical practices
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105002712437
U2 - 10.1080/10978526.2025.2488930
DO - 10.1080/10978526.2025.2488930
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105002712437
SN - 1097-8526
VL - 26
SP - 183
EP - 212
JO - Latin American Business Review
JF - Latin American Business Review
IS - 2
ER -