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The cheating culture: A global societal phenomenon

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  • Crittenden, Victoria L.
  • Hanna, Richard C.
  • Peterson, Robert A.

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Today's future business leaders are confronted early in their academic careers with history-making events which have a profound impact on the global economic system. These students of business are being exposed to behaviors as they unfold and, as such, are possibly living in an age of the "cheating culture" whereby everybody cheats because everyone else does it. Business students from around the world completed a cheating culture scale as part of a much larger investigation examining college students' attitudes toward capitalism and business ethics. Findings suggest that the cheating culture is not just a capitalistic phenomenon and that attitudinal differences are driven by gender, country corruption, and socioeconomic environment. Future business leaders worldwide, who are being shaped by news reports of scandal, are also being taught the fundamentals of operating in the business world. Unfortunately, they may be learning to inextricably combine the cheating culture with best business practices.

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  • Crittenden, Victoria L. & Hanna, Richard C. & Peterson, Robert A., 2009. "The cheating culture: A global societal phenomenon," Business Horizons, Elsevier, vol. 52(4), pages 337-346, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:bushor:v:52:y:2009:i:4:p:337-346
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