Understanding Research on Values in Business: A Level of Analysis Framework

Authors

Bradley R. Agle, University of Pittsburgh
Craig B. Caldwell, Butler UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Publication Title

Business and Society

First Page

326

Last Page

387

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000765039903800305

Abstract

Researchers in all management specialties have discussed and investigated the important role values play in personal and organizational phenomena. However, because research on values has been performed in a wide range of social science disciplines and at different levels of analysis, much of thiswork has been uninformed by other work and is neither well integrated nor systematized, resulting in a great deal of confusion concerning the topic. This article attempts to add order and clarity to this area of research by proposing a framework of values research based on level of analysis and by cataloguing and reviewing the vast theoretical and empirical research in light of this framework. It concludes with a critique of the extant literature and recommendations for further research.

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Recommended Citation

Agle, Bradley R. and Caldwell, Craig B., "Understanding Research on Values in Business: A Level of Analysis Framework" (1999). Scholarship and Professional Work - Business. 164.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cob_papers/164