01411nas a2200169   4500008004100000245006700041210006500108260000900173300001200182490000700194520083000201653003201031100002001063700002401083700002701107856010701134       2004                        eng d00aFirm Newness, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Ethical Climate0 aFirm Newness Entrepreneurial Orientation and Ethical Climate  c2004  a335-3470 v523 aFaced with the liability of newness, a scarcity of resources, and concerns of survival, new firms frequently encounter difficult ethical decisions and might be pressured to make choices that run counter to the tenets of more developed ethical and moral reasoning. This study explores the impact of newness and entrepreneurial orientation on the ethical climate of firms. Data collected from 304 individuals across 37 firms indicated that firm newness was more strongly related to ethical climate than was an entrepreneurial orientation. Results also revealed that firm newness may be usefully conceptualized in both continuous and categorical terms, with each operationalization holding a somewhat different relationship with climate. Finally, results revealed that firm size was related to several types of ethical climates.10aStrategy & Entrepreneurship1 aNeubaum, Donald1 aMitchell, Marie, S.1 aSchminke, Marshall, S.  u/biblio/firm-newness-entrepreneurial-orientation-and-ethical-climate-0