1999/09/01 by Bradley R. Agle, Craig Caldwell · 3 citations
Decision Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Ethics in Business and Education #Management and Organizational Studies #Management Theory and Practice
paper · doi:10.1177/000765039903800305
openalex publication_date 1999/09/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
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.