TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore gender differences in ethical attitudes along two dimensions: perceived ethical strategies for career advancement, or upward‐influence ethics; and perceived ethical roles of business in society and the natural environment, or business social and environmental responsibility.Design/methodology/approach– Employing a variance decomposition procedure, the paper identifies substantive differences in the ethical perceptions of Egyptian male and female managers.Findings– Female managers find more covert upward‐influence strategies – strategies that are less aboveboard and transparent – acceptable and eschew overt upward‐influence tactics – strategies that are aboveboard and transparent. Female managers also envision a larger role for business in society, particularly in terms of social responsibilities than do male managers.Research limitations/implications– The study is exploratory, employing a small sample in a single country.Originality/value– The findings contribute to ongoing debates about the role that a person's gender plays in influencing his/her ethical perspective, examining the issue in a developing country context. This paper's contribution is also methodological, demonstrating how variance decomposition can be used to examine these issues.
VL  - 4
IS  - 3
SN  - 1753-7983
DO  - 10.1108/17537981111159957
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/17537981111159957
AU  - Riddle Liesl
AU  - Ayyagari Meghana
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Contemporary Cleopatras: the business ethics of female Egyptian managers
T2  - Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 167
EP  - 192
Y2  - 2024/05/07
ER  -