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Academic dishonesty; Business ethics pedagogy; Cheating; Honor codes. AI
Introduction
Much as business must pay attention to ethics in the post Sarbanes–Oxley era and create ethical cultures and compliance systems, business schools must create ethical cultures, though honor codes and systems, and by teaching integrity and ethical decision-making (McCabe et al. 2006). Teaching college students to act ethically and to understand the costs of acting unethically is vital (Guerrero-Dib et al. 2020). The unethical business student behavior is a problem for the business community. Addressing unethical academic behavior among students will have long-term impacts on their postgraduation ethical behavior; it is unlikely that a student who regularly fails to act with integrity in an academic setting will become a worker who acts with integrity on a consistent basis. Indeed, research shows academic integrity and academic misconduct predict the ethicality of graduates (McCabe et al. 2006)....
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Burns, C. (2023). Academic Integrity and Business Ethics Teaching. In: Poff, D.C., Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22767-8_1218
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