David Hollingworth

• University of North Dakota

Supervisor character and behavior are key components of an organization's ethical fabric that should play a role in employee helping behavior. However, research has not fully distinguished how these factors are interrelated. The current study explores these relationships by developing a deeper understanding of ethical language in organizations via...

Purpose Focusing on ethical issues when making organizational decisions should encourage a variety of positive outcomes for companies and their employees. The purpose of this paper is to determine the degree to which data-based ethical decision making, lateral relations and organizational commitment are interrelated in organizations. Design/metho...

Current interest in supply chain management (SCM) coincides with an increasing interest in virtue ethics. Furthermore, in recently published research in business, the ethics literature suggests that organizational approaches to ethics may be more effective when they are based upon multiple, rather than single, ethical perspectives (e.g., virtues, d...

Drawing upon stakeholder theory and other interactional perspectives, this study explores the linkages among strategy communication, business decisions, and organizational ethics. Using survey data obtained from employees working for a financial services firm operating in the United States, the study determines 1) whether coordinated decision makin...

Current interest in supply chain management (SCM) coincides with an increasing interest in virtue ethics. Furthermore, in recently published research in business, the ethics literature suggests that organizational approaches to ethics may be more effective when they are based upon multiple, rather than single, ethical perspectives (e.g., virtues, d...

Purpose – There is reason to believe that an ethically minded approach to hiring and the development of an ethical context should be associated with incremental decreases in employees’ perceptions of ethical conflict. It is also likely that the selection of ethical employees, and the reduced ethical conflict that follows, are positively related to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how employee's perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) relate to their perceptions of an organization's orientation toward continuous process improvement orientation (CPIO). In addition, this research considers how employee perceptions of CSR and CPIO relate to work attitudes and behavi...

When investigating the impact of organizational ethical context on individual ethical decision-making, past work has reported mixed results, with some studies indicating that a strong ethical work environment is associated with increased ethical reasoning, and other studies indicating that such an environment has little to no influence on the way e...

Unethical decisions adversely impact employees, coworkers, customers, owners, and other stakeholders. While research on ethics in marketing, accounting, management, and other functional areas of organizations is richly developed, research on ethical issues in the operations function of organizations is relatively underdeveloped (Valentine & Holling...

Existing research suggests that human resource (HR) practices and corporate ethics, both of which are orchestrated through human resource development (HRD), enhance employees' work attitudes. Consequently, this study examined the degree to which employees' perception of organizational ethics mediates the relationship between their perceptions of qu...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational ethical context and the individual ethical decision-making process. In addition, a new statistical approach combining cluster and discriminant analyses was developed to overcome violations of regression assumptions, which are commonly not identified and/or ignored...

This paper reports an application of the approach to knowledge generation in Operations Management, described by Swamidass (1991) that includes theory testing, theory revision based upon research, and testing of the revised theory. The method is applied to JIT – a body of knowledge that has been extensively researched and practiced broadly for over...

Previous work suggests that moral intensity and the perceived importance of an ethical issue can influence individual ethical decision making. However, prior research has not explored how the various dimensions of moral intensity might differentially affect PIE, or how moral intensity might function together with (or in the presence of) PIE to infl...

Little research has been done on managerial perceptions of transaction costs, or on the impact of institutions on the calculation of transactions costs. In this study we develop a model that evaluates the effects of institutional forces on transactions costs calculations in the context of the institutionalization of total quality management. Our fi...

This study examines the effects of the fit between generic manufacturing strategies (GMS) and manufacturing objectives upon strategically relevant plant level performance outcomes (e.g. cost-efficiency, quality, delivery, flexibility, and innovation). The proposition that plants with generic manufacturing strategies that are consistent (fit) with o...

Little research has been done on managerial perceptions of transaction costs, or on the impact of institutions on the calculation of transactions costs. In this study we develop a model that evaluates the effects of institutional forces on transactions costs calculations in the context of the institutionalization of total quality management. Our fi...

Our paper provides a comprehensive assessment of 285 survey research articles in operations management (OM), published between 1980 and 2000. Six OM journals are included in this study; they are, in alphabetical order: Decision Sciences (DS), International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM), International Journal of Production Re...

Our paper provides a comprehensive assessment of 285 survey research articles in operations management (OM), published between 1980 and 2000. Six OM journals are included in this study; they are, in alphabetical order: Decision Sciences (DS), International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM), International Journal of Production Re...

The need to empirically test and validate typologies and frameworks that are derived deductively has been echoed repeatedly in the operations management literature. This paper reports on an empirical comparison of two configuration‐based typologies: the Product–process matrix and the more recent generic manufacturing strategies model. Since there i...

The need to empirically test and validate typologies and frameworks that are derived deductively has been echoed repeatedly in the operations management literature. This paper reports on an empirical comparison of two configuration‐based typologies: the Product–process matrix and the more recent generic manufacturing strategies model. Since there i...

The literature proposes that the implementation of EDI should be consistent with a manufacturer's operational strategy, yet very few studies consider the relationship between these two areas. This study attempts to bridge that gap in the existing research by empirically investigating whether the four facets of EDI are being implemented in manufactu...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1998. Includes bibliographic references.