A Behavioral Model of Ethical and Unethical Decision Making

Predicting Accounting Students’ Intentions to Engage in Software and Music Piracy

“…Accordingly, ethical standards are still evolving for IT, given the ease of access to copyright software and music, and the related use of these digital materials. Bommer et al (1987) state that ethical or unethical behavior takes place as a result of an ethical dilemma. Kreie and Cronan (2000) find that people rely heavily on their personal values when deciding what ethical or unethical behavior is.…”

Introduction

“…We examined various theoretical models (specifically, Treviño, 1986;Jones, 1991;Bommer et al, 1987;Dubinsky and Loken, 1989;Ferrell and Gresham, 1985;Ferrell, Gresham, and Fraedrich, 1989;Hunt and Vitell, 1986;Zey-Ferrell and Ferrell, 1982;Sonenshein, 2007) to identify broad categories of individual-level ethics constructs. From this exercise, we made some initial attempts at creating chapter boundaries.…”

Investigating factors influencing local government decision makers while adopting integration technologies (IntTech)

“…A number of researchers have proposed a variety of theoretical models in the effort to explain and predict the process by which management makes ethical decisions and by taking into consideration its related values (Jones, 1991;Bommer et al, 1987). While any of these models might serve as a basis for undertaking empirical study of the ethics and values related to decision-making process, there is little effort on testing this factor in the context of integration technologies adoption in LGAs.…”

“…Rollinson (2008) argues that ethical behaviour is not solely determined by individual predispositions, but usually is the result of an interaction between individual factors and contextual variables. Since concern about ethics infuses a degree of ambiguity into a decision, and for most people vagueness can be unpleasant, this can have a huge impact on the decisions that are taken (Rollinson, 2008;Jones, 1991;Bommer et al, 1987). At one extreme, individuals attempt to guard their core values by either not making decision or behaving with extreme ethical enthusiasm.…”