Financial accountability, ethical issues and organizational citizenship behavior in fragile economic systems: The case of the Nigerian economy

Okeke, R.; Nwankpa, L.

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ISSN 2369-7407 (Online) - ISSN 2369-7393 (Print) Quarterly Publication Volume 4 Issue 4 pp. 161-170 , 2018

Financial accountability, ethical issues and organizational citizenship behavior in fragile economic systems: The case of the Nigerian economy Pages 161-170 Download PDF

Authors: Remi Chukwudi Okeke, Linda Oluchi Nwankpa

DOI: 10.5267/j.ac.2018.2.001

Keywords: Financial accountability, Ethical issues, Organizational citizenship behavior, Fragile economic systems

Abstract: The general objective of this study is to examine the relationship among financial accountability, ethical issues and organizational citizenship behaviour, in a national economic system. The null hypothesis of the study examined the inverted trajectories of the variables. The work is situated within the context of Nigeria’s national economy, which typifies a fragile economic system. We have argued in the work that the fragility of the Nigerian national economic system (which is representative of similar economies among developing nations) is a function of its input-output processes. The study essentially finds that to reverse the trend of fragility in an economic system (a national economic system) in the context of developing economies, the issues of financial accountability, ethical questions and great organizational citizenship behaviour must in their combinatory format, be elevated to the status of a national imperative. We found in the work, that ethical regeneration is antecedent to institutional reform, in the schemata of mechanisms, for reversing the tendency of fragility, in troubled economic systems, classifiable as developing or underdeveloped.

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 Okeke, R & Nwankpa, L. (2018). Financial accountability, ethical issues and organizational citizenship behavior in fragile economic systems: The case of the Nigerian economy.Accounting, 4(4), 161-170.

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