Business students' and practitioners' ethical decisions over time

Supervisor Role Modeling, Ethics-Related Organizational Policies, and Employee Ethical Intention: The Moderating Impact of Moral Ideology

“…Finally, also as hypothesized, ethics-related policies and procedures had a positive relationship with ethical intention among those with universal beliefs, but the relationship was much weaker among relativists. The person-situation interactions found here possibly account for weak or null main effects previously detailed in the literature for both ethical leadership (e.g., Detert et al, 2007;Glenn and Van Loo, 1993;Murphy et al, 1992) and other organization-based variables (Cleek and Leonard, 1998;Hunt et al, 1990;Kohut and Corriher, 1994;McKendall et al, 2002;Paolillo and Vitell, 2002;Wynd and Mager, 1989).…”

Cultural Crossvergence and Social Desirability Bias: Ethical Evaluations by Chinese and Canadian Business Students

“…College students themselves are reported to be concerned with ethical issues (Peterson et al, 1991). Despite this, there is evidence to suggest that students were making less ethical choices in the 1980s than in the 1960s (Glenn and Van Loo, 1993). Consequently, the need for business educators to incorporate appropriate ethics-related courses has been voiced frequently in the literature (see Melé 2008 for a brief history of the debate on the role of ethics in business education).…”

Perceptions of Accountants’ Ethics: Evidence from Their Portrayal in Cinema

“…Unethical behavior is difficult, if not impossible, to observe and self-reports gathered from practitioners are subject to a number of important biases (Bernardi, 2006;Glenn and Van Loo, 1993;Randall and Fernandes, 1991). These difficulties with respect to collecting reliable data about the actual (un)ethical behavior of accountants have plagued ethics research and will likely continue to do so.…”