Business Ethics

A typical project is an assessment of the quality-of-life orientation of business executives and the corporate ethical culture of any large, medium-size, or small business. Based on this assessment, a code of ethics is developed for that organization. Furthermore, a training program is designed to sensitize employees to ethical issues facing that organization and appropriate strategies to deal with these issues effectively and morally. Publications supporting this program of studies generated by OQOLM:

Singhapakdi, Anusorn, M. Joseph Sirgy, and Dong-Jin Lee (2014). "Ethics Institutionalization and Its Impact on Quality of Work Life and Employee Job Related Outcomes: A Review with Managerial and Research Implications." In Organizational Ethics and Stakeholder Well-Being in the Business Environment, edited by Sean Robert Valentine. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Ch. 2, pp. 15-38.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (2013). "The Ethics of Consumer Sovereignty in an Age of High Tech: Additional Thoughts," Social Business, 2(autumn),243-270.
Marta, Janet K. M., Anusorn Singhapakdi, Dong-Jin Lee, M. Joseph Sirgy, Kalayanee Koonmee, and Busal Virakul (2013), "Perceptions about Ethics Institutionalization and Quality of Work Life: Thai versus American Managers," Journal of Business Research, 66(3), 381-389.
Reilly, Nora P., M. Joseph Sirgy, and C. Allen Gorman (Eds.) (2012). "Work and Quality of Life: Ethical Practices in Organizations." Dordrechet, Netherlands: Springer Publishers.
Sirgy, M. Joseph, Grace B. Yu, Dong-Jin Lee, and Ming-Wei Huang (2012), "Does Marketing Activity Contribute to a Society's Well-Being?" The Role of Economic Efficiency. Journal of Business Ethics, 107(2), 91-102.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (2012). "Employee Well-Being: An Integrative perspective." Work and Quality of Life: Ethical Practices in Organizations, edited by Nora P. Reilly, M. Joseph Sirgy, and C. Allen Gorman. Doredrechet, Netherlands: Springer Publishers, pp. 35-64.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (2011), "Commentary on Malhotra's Contribution to Ethics, Macromarketing, and Pedagogy." Legends in Marketing: Naresh K. Malhotra on Ethics, Macromarketing, and Pedagogy, Volume 8, edited by Gina Miller. M.E. Sharpe Publishers.
Gao, Tao, M. Joseph Sirgy, and J. S. Johar (2010). "Developing a Measure to Capture Marketing Faculty?s Perceptions of Unethical Behavior." Journal of Business Research, 63, 366-371.
Singhapakdi, Anusorn, M. Joseph Sirgy, Dong-Jin Lee, and Scott J. Vitell (2010). "The Effects of Ethics Institutionalization on Marketing Managers: The Mediating Role of Implicit Institutionalization and the Moderating Role of Socialization. Journal of Macromarketing, 30(1), 77-92.
Singhapakdi, Anusorn, M. Joseph Sirgy, and Dong-Jin Lee (2010). "Is Small Business Better than Big Business for Marketing Managers?" Journal of Business Research, 63, 418-423.
Dong-Jin Lee, M. Joseph Sirgy, Kalayanee Koonmee, and Busal Virakul (2010), "Perceptions about Ethics Institutionalization and Quality of Work Life: Thai versus American Managers," Journal of Business Research.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (2008). "Ethics and Public Policy Implications of Consumer Well-Being (CWB) Research." Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 27(2), 207-212.
Gao, Tao, Philip Siegel, J. S. Johar, and M. Joseph Sirgy (2008). "A Survey of Management Educators' Perceptions of Unethical Faculty Behavior." Journal of Academic Ethics, 6, 129-152.
Sirgy, M. Joseph and Dong-Jin Lee (2008). "Well-Being Marketing: An Ethical Philosophy for Consumer Goods Firms." Journal of Business Ethics, 77(4), 377-403.
Sirgy, M. Joseph and Dong-Jin Lee (2007). "Ethical Foundations of Well-Being Marketing." Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, edited by Frank Columbus, Hauppauge , NY : Nova Science Publishers.
Su, Chenting, Ronald Mitchell, and M. Joseph Sirgy (2007). "Enabling Guanxi Management in China: A Hierarchical Stakeholder Model of Effective Guanxi." Journal of Business Ethics, 71(3), 301-319.
Sirgy, M. Joseph, J. S. Johar, and Tao Gao (2006). "Toward a Code of Ethics for Marketing Educators." Journal of Business Ethics, 63, 1-20.
Sirgy, M. Joseph, Dong-Jin Lee, and Nora Reilly (2006). "Highlighting the Concept of Well-Being in Business." Die Unternehmung-Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice, 60(1), 61-76.
Gao, Tao and M. Joseph Sirgy (2006). "Revisiting Sirgy's Corporate Performance Measurement Model: Toward a Management Audit that Captures CSR and Beyond." Corporate Social Responsibility: Performances and Stakeholders, Volume 2, edited by Jose' Allouche, Palgrave MacMillan Publishers .
Sirgy, M. Joseph and Dong-Jin Lee (2006). "Well-Being." Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, edited by Robert W. Kolb. Sage Publications.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (2006). "Well-Being Marketing: An Ethical Business Philosophy for Consumer Goods Firms." Proceedings of the International Conference of the School of Economics and Business in Sarajevo. Sarajevo, Bosnia : School of economics and Business of the University of Sarajevo , pp. 21-28.
Lee, Dong-Jin and M. Joseph Sirgy (2005). Well-being Marketing: Theory, Research, and Applications. Seoul , Korea : Pakyoungsa Publishing.
Sirgy, M. Joseph, Philip H. Siegel, and J. S. Johar (2005). "Toward a Code of Ethics for Accounting Educators." Journal of Business Ethics, 61, 215-234 .
Sirgy, M. Joseph and Stephan Grzeskowiak (2005). "A Relationship Quality/Stakeholder Perspective of Corporate Performance." Progress in Economics Research, edited by Frank Columbus, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Lee, Dong-Jin and M. Joseph Sirgy (2004). "Quality-of-Life (QOL) Marketing: Proposed Antecedents and Consequences." Journal of Macromarketing, 24 (June), 44-58.
Lee, Dong-Jin, M. Joseph Sirgy, James R. Brown, and Monroe Murphy Bird (2004). "Importers' Benevolence Toward Their Foreign Export Suppliers." Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 32 (Winter), 32-48.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (2003). "Monitoring Consumers Habits for Environmental Sustainability: Toward a Social Indicators System." The Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Sustainable Consumption, edited by Atsushi Inaba, Tokyo, Japan: The Society of Non-Traditional Technology and the Research Center for Life Cycle Assessment, pp. 101-106.
Dong-Jin Lee and M. Joseph Sirgy (2003). "Heightening Social Responsibility in Marketing." Social Indicators Network News, Winter/March issue, pp. 4-5.
Su, Chenting, M. Joseph Sirgy, and James E. Littlefield (2003). "Is Guanxi Orientation Bad, Ethically Speaking? A Study of Chinese Enterprises." Journal of Business Ethics, 44 (June), 303-312..
Sirgy, M. Joseph, J. S. Johar, and Naoto Onzo (2003). "Toward a Code of Ethics for Japanese Marketing Educators." Japan Journal of Management, 23 (2), 42-56.
Lee, Dong-Jin and M. Joseph Sirgy (2003). "Heightening Social Responsibility in Marketing: The Concept of Quality-of-Life (QOL) Marketing, Proposed Antecedents and Consequences" Marketing to Diverse Cultures: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Macromarketing Conference, edited by William H. Redmond, Bowling Green University, pp. 140-159.
Sirgy, M. Joseph, Dong-Jin Lee, David Efraty, and Philip Siegel (2003). "A Study of Quality-of-Work-Life (QWL), Spiritual Well Being, and Life Satisfaction," Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Performance, edited by R. A. Giacalone and C. L. Jurkiewicz, M. E. Sharpe Publishers, pp. 209-230.
Dong-Jin Lee and M. Joseph Sirgy (2003). "Heightening Social Responsibility in Marketing." Social Indicators Network News, Winter/March issue, pp. 4-5.
Mitchell, Ron, M. Joseph Sirgy, and Chenting Su (2002). "Do Us a Favor: Examining the Theoretical Essentials of Effective Guanxi in China." The Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business and Society.
Su, Chenting, M. Joseph Sirgy, and Ron Mitchell (2002). "Enabling Guanxi Management in China: A Hierarchical Stakeholder Model of Guanxi." The Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (2002). "Measuring Corporate Performance by Building on the Stakeholders Model of Business Ethics." Journal of Business Ethics, 35(3), 143-162.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (2001). Handbook of Quality-of-Life Research: an Ethical Marketing Perspective. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Sirgy, M. Joseph and Chenting Su (2000), "The Ethics of Consumer Sovereignty in an Age of High Tech." Journal of Business Ethics, 28, 1-14.
Cole, Dennis, M. Joseph Sirgy, and Monroe Murphy Bird (2000), "How Do Managers Make Teleological Evaluations in Ethical Dilemmas? Testing Part of and Extending the Hunt-Vittell Model." Journal of Business Ethics, 26 (August), 259-269.
Lee, Dong-Jin and M. Joseph Sirgy (1999). "International Marketers' Quality-of-Life Orientation: A Measure and Validational Support," Journal of Business Ethics, 18 (January), 73-89.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (1999). "Social Responsibility and the Marketing Educator." Journal of Business Ethics, 19 (April), 193-206. [This is a position paper followed by three commentaries.]
Sirgy, M. Joseph (1996). "A Pragmatic Approach to Business Ethics: Alex Michalos." Journal of Macromarketing, 16 (Spring), 147-149.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (1995). "Marketing Ethics: A Commentary on Craig Smith's Article." Sloan Management Review, 37(Fall), 5-6.
Sirgy, M. Joseph and A. C. Samli Eds. (1995). New Dimensions in Marketing and Quality-of-Life Research, second edition, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Sirgy, M. Joseph (1991). "Can Business and Government Help Enhance the Quality of Life (QOL) of Workers and Consumers?" Journal of Business Research, 22 (June), 327-334, and 23 (August), 1-8.
Sirgy, M. Joseph and Tamara Fox Mangleburg (1988). "Toward a General Theory of Social System Development: A Management/Marketing Perspective." Systems Research, 5(2), 115-130.
Sirgy, M. Joseph and Michael Morris (1986). "The Growth of the Marketing Discipline in Relation to Quality of Life: A General Systems Perspective." Marketing/Quality-of-Life Interface, edited by A. C. Samli, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, pp. 312-333.
Samli, A. Coskun and M. Joseph Sirgy (1982). "Social Responsibility in Marketing: An Analysis and Synthesis." Marketing Theory: Philosophy of Science Perspectives, edited by R. F. Bush and S. D. Hunt, Chicago: American Marketing Association, pp. 250-254