Ethical positions in Hungary, China, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan in the light of idealism and relativism

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of ethical positions of the respondents from Hungary, China, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan. In the context of globalization, when the process of global economic, cultural, social integration occurs, the effectiveness of interaction between countries and peoples, especially in trade and economic relations, depends on the understanding of the concept of business ethics. Therefore, the understanding of national aspects of business ethics plays a significant role. The idea of business ethics may vary depending on the national and cultural characteristics, traditions, mentality and stereotypes of the country with which the interaction takes place. Therefore, it is necessary to study the ethical position. To do this, we conducted a survey, using the Foresight questionnaire, among 905 respondents from Hungary, China, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan, who are students of the Department of Business, and had work experience in private and public sector. The results of the study confirm the hypothesis that ethical position differs depending of nation, gender, and work experience.

Investigating consumer ethical beliefs: role of moral philosophies and personality traits

“…Because studies find varied results with relativism/idealism – consumer ethics relationship, researchers call for more analyses looking into interplay of other personal variables. For example, Abdyrakhmanova and Kollár (2020) concluded that the relativism/idealism stance of consumer depends on other traits of consumer, thus demanding further research on variables like personality; Chowdhury (2018) proved these two philosophies play a role in consumer ethics, but called for more analyses on influencers of consumer ethics beliefs (CEB). Various research has been done on what affects consumers’ moral philosophies-ethical perceptions connection including demographic variables like age wherein teenage increases shoplifting (Babin and Griffin, 1995), education reduces piracy (Lu and Lu, 2010) and psychographic variables like religiosity increases ethical behavior (Schneider et al , 2011).…”