Case Studies of Ethics Scandals: Effects on Ethical Perceptions of Finance Students

Ethics instructors often use cases to help students understand ethics within a corporate context, but we need to know more about the impact a case-based pedagogy has on students' ability to make ethical decisions. We used a pre- and post-test methodology to assess the effect of using cases to t...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics 2006-03, Vol.64 (3), p.213-229
Main Authors: Cagle, Julie A. B., Baucus, Melissa S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accounting
Age
Business education
Business ethics
Business studies
Case studies
College professors
Consumer goods industries
Corporate governance
Curricula
Decision making
Education
Entrepreneurship
Ethical behavior
Ethical codes
Ethical instruction
Finance
Fraud
Hypotheses
MBA
Pedagogy
Political ethics
Research ethics
Researchers
Scandals
Statistical analysis
Stockholders
Students
Studies
Teaching
Undergraduate students
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Summary:Ethics instructors often use cases to help students understand ethics within a corporate context, but we need to know more about the impact a case-based pedagogy has on students' ability to make ethical decisions. We used a pre- and post-test methodology to assess the effect of using cases to teach ethics in a finance course. We also wanted to determine whether recent corporate ethics scandals might have impacted students' perceptions of the importance and prevalence of ethics in business, so we used in-depth case studies of several of the major scandals (e.g., Enron, Tyco, Adelphia). Our results are somewhat surprising since studying ethics scandals positively impacts students' ethical decision making and their perceptions of the ethics of businesspeople.
ISSN:0167-4544
1573-0697
DOI:10.1007/s10551-005-8503-5