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Prostitution In Salt Lake City, Targeting Cigarettes, And Breaking The Speed: Three Case Study Vignettes On Ethics In The Capitalist Marketplace, Roy B. Johnson
Prostitution In Salt Lake City, Targeting Cigarettes, And Breaking The Speed: Three Case Study Vignettes On Ethics In The Capitalist Marketplace, Roy B. Johnson
Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology
"Three vignettes are presented to help students think about and apply ethical, social, and economic concepts they have learned in courses incorporating business ethics. Each vignette is short enough to cover in a single class."
A Case For Teaching Business Ethics In A Cost-Benefits Framework: Are Business Students More Discriminating In Their Decision Making?, Steven R. Cox, Kathy Parkison, Dianne M. Roden
A Case For Teaching Business Ethics In A Cost-Benefits Framework: Are Business Students More Discriminating In Their Decision Making?, Steven R. Cox, Kathy Parkison, Dianne M. Roden
Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology
"Based on a survey questionnaire of 299 university students, we find that business majors act more ethically than other majors in some cases and less ethically in others. Business students appear more likely to adopt the consequentialist framework to evaluate ethical dilemmas. Our results are consistent with business students being more discriminating based on the perceived costs and benefits of each case. We find differences in behavior based on active versus passive unethical behavior and based on the identity of the potentially harmed party. This evidence suggests that business school curricula that focus on acting ethically because it is the …
Kim Emigh, Worldcom Whistleblower - A Case Study In Accounting Ethics At Worldcom, David Christensen
Kim Emigh, Worldcom Whistleblower - A Case Study In Accounting Ethics At Worldcom, David Christensen
Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology
"About two weeks before internal auditors at WorldCom began questioning capital expense adjustments, the Fort Worth Weekly (cite below) published the story of Kim Emigh, who was fired for questioning inappropriate accounting practices at WorldCom. The article first caught the attention of Mark Abide, the director of property accounting at WorldCom. On May 21, Mr. Abide forwarded the article to Glyn Smith on the internal audit staff, with a note saying that the allegations of the accounting misdeeds by Emigh were ‘worth looking into’ (Krim 2002). The internal auditing team, headed by Cynthia Cooper, met on May 29 to discuss …
Identifying Strategies That Encourage Resolve To Exhibit Moral Courage, Jeff Barnes, David Christensen, David Rees
Identifying Strategies That Encourage Resolve To Exhibit Moral Courage, Jeff Barnes, David Christensen, David Rees
Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology
Recent highly-publicized business scandals involving accounting ethical failures have encouraged research and recommendations to teach business ethics throughout the business curriculum. Research studies provide evidence that increasing moral sensitivity and judgment is possible over short periods of moral instruction, however, having higher moral sensitivity and judgment does not guarantee that moral courage will be displayed under duress. This study identifies personal moral courage intention strategies to support morally courageous acts.
An Investigation Of Plagiarism And Electronic Agents To Assist In Detecting Plagiarism, James Frost, Gamewell Gantt
An Investigation Of Plagiarism And Electronic Agents To Assist In Detecting Plagiarism, James Frost, Gamewell Gantt
Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology
The importance of integrity in business is echoed in the recent disclosures involving Enron, Worldcom, and several other major companies. Academically, the professor must always be aware of the potential for academic dishonesty from students. Academic dishonesty includes plagiarism. This paper reviews the motivations for plagiarism, the methods of detecting and preventing plagiarism, and two electronic agents that assist in plagiarism detection.