Codes of ethics

Spero C. Peppas, Tyler T. Yu
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine attitudes of undergraduate and graduate business students in China and the USA with regard to business codes of ethics.Design/methodology/approach – Respondents were instructed to assume that an Ethical Practices Code had been drawn up by firms operating in the industry in which they intended to work and were asked to indicate their levels of disagreement/agreement with seven statements relating to the possible consequences of such a code. Tests of significance were used to analyze responses for the USA and Chinese groups. In addition, the effect on responses of a course in ethics was examined.Findings – Despite the recent attention focused on corporate irresponsibility and the possible adverse effects on US consumers of outsourcing to China, the findings indicate that, with one exception, attitudes toward codes of ethics were not significantly different between the Chinese and USA respondents.Research limitations/implications – Future researchers may wish...
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道德守则
目的-本文的目的是研究中国和美国的本科生和研究生商业学生对商业道德准则的态度。设计/方法/方法-受访者被要求假设在他们打算工作的行业中经营的公司已经制定了道德行为守则,并被要求表明他们对与该守则可能产生的后果有关的七项陈述的不同意/同意程度。使用显著性检验来分析美国和中国组的反应。此外,还考察了伦理课程对学生反应的影响。调查结果-尽管最近关注的焦点是企业的不负责任和外包给中国可能对美国消费者产生的不利影响,但调查结果表明,除了一个例外,中国和美国受访者对道德准则的态度并没有显著差异。研究局限性/启示-未来的研究人员可能希望…
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