J Bus Ethics (2013) 113:181–182 DOI 10.1007/s10551-012-1403-6
ERRATUM
Erratum to: Institutionalizing Ethical Innovation in Organizations: An Integrated Causal Model of Moral Innovation Decision Processes E. Gu¨nter Schumacher • David M. Wasieleski
Published online: 21 July 2012 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Erratum to: J Bus Ethics DOI 10.1007/s10551-012-1277-7
the proofreading stage they overlooked an inversion in ‘Stage VI’. The correct caption should read ‘Stage IV’ as shown in the updated Fig. 1.
The authors of the above mentioned article discovered an inversion of letters in Fig. 1 after its publication in OnlineFirst. During submission of the manuscript and in
The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1277-7. E. G. Schumacher D. M. Wasieleski CEREFIGE—ICN Business School, Nancy-Metz, 13 Rue Michel Ney, 54000 Nancy, France e-mail:
[email protected] D. M. Wasieleski (&) Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, 918 Rockwell Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, USA e-mail:
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Interest of a Company
The translation process: from interest to ethical innovation Stage I
Principal goal:
Survival Business Environment long term tendency of ethic & organisational innovation
Time horizon of the decision makers
Stage II
Stage III
Degree of “ethical sensitivity” -
weak
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medium
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strong
(exclusively) * short term
Social Science research
* long term
* the average life span of a company
Business Models: * short term profit maximisation * CSR
* personal factors * type of industries/ economic sector * national culture
Influencing variables: * life span of innovation * innovation-type - product/process - incremental/radical - technological/value * moral intensity
influencing
Fig. 1 The causal link between survival objective and ethical innovation
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(see innovation – ethic duality Figure 2)
step 3: translation into the company’s strategic decisions
Influencing variables:
* type of corporation - legal form - corporate culture - organisational structure
Innovation decisions taking into consideration ethical values
step 2: translation into the company’s goals- set
revealed by Natural Science research
step 1: Integration into the company’s value system
Stage IV
* open/closed innovation
