Cultural Crossvergence and Social Desirability Bias: Ethical Evaluations by Chinese and Canadian Business Students
| Autor: | Paul Dunn, Anamitra Shome |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
business.industry education Sample (statistics) International business Public relations Business activities Individual level General Business Management and Accounting Social desirability bias Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Corporate level Phenomenon Sociology Business and International Management Business ethics business Law Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Business Ethics. 85:527-543 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0697 0167-4544 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10551-008-9787-z |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study is to determine whether there are cross-cultural differences between Chinese and Canadian business students with respect to their assessment of the ethicality of various business behaviors. Using a sample of 147 business students, the results indicate cultural crossvergence; the Chinese (72 students) and Canadians (75 students) exhibit different ethical attitudes toward questionable business practices at the individual level but not at the corporate level. A social desirability bias (a tendency to deny socially unacceptable actions and to admit to socially desirable ones) is also found to be a cross-cultural phenomenon, with the Canadians demonstrating a greater bias than the Chinese. Finally, this bias causes respondents to increase their assessment of the un-ethicality of questionable business activities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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