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The Impact of Business Ethics on Entrepreneurial Attitude of Manager

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Due to the rapid pace of changes in the world of business, which is inherently affected by managers’ attitudes as well as their ethical behaviour, we intend to examine the relationship between these two elements. To do so, a hundred managers of the Telecom companies are surveyed. The data is gathered through a standard questionnaire which is confirmed by experts and its reliability is examined by Cronbach’s alpha. The data is analyzed by SPSS 22 software, using regression and path analyses. Findings revealed that there is a correlation between the main variables of the study. Also, it is concluded that when managers follow ethical behaviours, they will be more prone to be creative and innovative in their businesses.

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  1. Farabi Institute of Higher Education, Karaj, Iran

    Somayeh Moazami Goodarzi

  2. Graduate School of Business, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

    Yashar Salamzadeh

  3. University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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Goodarzi, S.M., Salamzadeh, Y., Salamzadeh, A. (2018). The Impact of Business Ethics on Entrepreneurial Attitude of Manager. In: Khajeheian, D., Friedrichsen, M., Mödinger, W. (eds) Competitiveness in Emerging Markets. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71722-7_25

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