Resumen
There is an increasing interest in identifying business ethics values across cultures. Business ethics values are commonly expressed in corporate governance and managerial decision-making worldwide. The authors review global corporate websites as an expanded source of business ethics. It appears that ethics usage across websites is a natural extension of the values articulated in the corporate code of ethics. As such, the corporate websites may be viewed as an expanded source of business ethics that adds to globalization of ethics values. By identifying ethics values that are converging, global corporate standards may be enhanced. Our sample encompasses the top 30 global corporation?s websites from each of the following countries- France, Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. Various ethics values are identified and measured by frequency as they occur across the corporate website. Global corporate websites generally show the same values and this creates at least the appearance of convergence of global business ethics and the projection of similar ethical images among MNC?s. Keywords: global corporate websites, expanded source of business ethics, global ethics image, global ethics convergence, global corporate standards.