Document Type : Original Research
Authors
Faculty of Business, President University, Cikarang, Indonesia
Abstract
The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of role to ethical environment and organizational fit as the mediating variable in public accounting firms in Indonesia. 101 auditors from 9 international public accounting firms were participated as participants in our online questionnaires. To test the hypothesis of the study, SEM SmartPLS with WarpPLS version 3.0 software was used to process the data. The result of the study showed that role variable is positively associated with ethical environment and also organizational of fit was mediated the relationship between role and ethical environment. This study is expected to build better understanding to public accounting firms the importance to build the ethical environment in their organizations.
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