This article provides an objective, systematic, and integrated review of the Western academic literature on adventure tourism to discover the theoretical foundations and key themes underlying the field by combining three complementary approaches of bibliometric analysis, content analysis, and a quantitative systematic review. A total of 114 publications on adventure tourism were identified that revealed three broad areas of foci with adventure tourism research: (1) adventure tourism experience, (2) destination planning and development, and (3) adventure tourism operators. Adventure tourism has an intellectual tradition from multiple disciplines, such as the social psychology of sport and recreation. There is an underrepresentation of studies examining non-Western tourists in their own geographic contexts or non-Western tourists in Western geographic contexts. Our findings pave ways for developing a more robust framework and holistic understanding of the adventure tourism field.

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business ethics, guanxi , chinese values, moral judgment,

An individual's ethical ideology has been identified as one of the key components influencing ethical decision making in organisations. The Ethics Position Questionnaire (Forsyth, 1980) is designed to measure ethical ideology in relation to two dimensions, namely Idealism and Relativism. This study investigates the factor structure of this measure in a sample of Chinese managers, and compares the dimensions found to those found in the original study. In addition, a regional comparison is undertaken and results show that there are significant differences in ethical ideology across different regions in China. These results are discussed and suggestions for future research are made. Recently, there has been an increased interest in the business ethics literature on differences in ethical ideology across countries and cultures, and the way these are applied to ethical decisions or

Business ethics, China, Modernisation, Moral judgements, Regional differences,