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Calls for increasing integration of ethical considerations into business education are well documented. Business graduates are perceived to be ethically naive at best, and at worst, constrained in their moral development by the lack of ethical content in their courses. The pedagogic concern is to find effective methods of incorporating ethics into the fabric of business education. The purpose of this paper is to suggest and illustrate role play as an appropriate method for integrating ethical concerns.
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Dr. Kate Brown is a senior lecturer in the Department of Finance and Quantitative Analysis at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. She teaches financial management and a course in entrepreneurship and venture capital. Her research interests include corporate finance, regulatory economics, and issues in the teaching of finance.
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Brown, K.M. Using role play to integrate ethics into the business curriculum a financial management example. J Bus Ethics 13, 105–110 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881579
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