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A sample of 227 business students from the United States and Australia was used to evaluate factors that impact business students' ethical orientation and factors that impact students' perceptions of ethical classroom behaviors. Perceptions of classroom behaviors was considered a surrogate for future perceptions of business behaviors. Independent factors included age, gender, religious orientation, country of origin, personality, and ethical orientation. A number of factors were related to ethical orientation, but only age and religious orientation exhibited much impact upon perceptions of ethical classroom behaviors.
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Allmon, D.E., Page, D. & Rpberts, R. Determinants of Perceptions of Cheating: Ethical Orientation, Personality and Demographics. Journal of Business Ethics 23, 411–422 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006087104087
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