“…Studies have investigated the contributing factors of consumers’ ethical beliefs such as religion (Arli & Tjiptono, ; Arli, Tjiptono, Lasmono, & Anandya, ; Vitell, ; Vitell et al, ); moral philosophy (Lu & Lu, ); materialism (Muncy & Eastman, ; Tang & Chen, ; Vitell et al, ); gender (Bateman & Valentine, ); acculturation (Pekerti & Arli, ; Swaidan, Vitell, Rose, & Gilbert, ; Swaidan, ); and personality trait (Rallapalli, Vitell, Wiebe, & Barnes, ). Nonetheless, there are still limited studies investigating the role of Machiavellianism on ethical beliefs.…”