Study on Factors Underlying Students' Ethical Decision Making in Music File Sharing

摘要

Business ethics is at a high stake in view of a rash of recent unethical business scandals. Business schools are defensive in a barrage of blames fur not teaching business ethics effectively to their students. The college of business at SHU is particularly sensitive to this issue since it has been proud of its Catholic intellectual tradition and has been doing its best to comply the requirements by AACSB for the accreditation. This study will help us to understand factors underlying in our business students 'ethical decision making and to address those factors effectively in the business curriculum so that they will behave more ethically by respecting others 'intellectual properties. One limitation of this study is that we measure our students 'ethical behavior based on only one matter, music file sharing.