A COMPARATIVE-ANALYSIS OF ETHICAL BELIEFS - A 4 COUNTRY STUDY

This study examines the extent to which business students from Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan react differently to ethical dilemmas in volving employees, supervisors, customers, suppliers, and business riv als. The empirical results show that the national origin of the studen ts does have an impact on their reactions to particular ethical dilemm as. In addition, the results indicate that controlling for the problem of social desirability response bias is important to ensure the valid ity of the empirical findings.