RT Article
T1 Cultural Crossvergence and Social Desirability Bias: Ethical Evaluations by Chinese and Canadian Business Students
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 85
IS 4
SP 527
OP 543
A1 Dunn, Paul
A1 Shome, Anamitra
A2 Shome, Anamitra
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785633848
AB 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.
K1 International Business
K1 Students
K1 Culture
K1 Business Ethics
DO 10.1007/s10551-008-9787-z