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Are Consumers’ Ethical Intentions Predictable by the Standards They Use to Judge Others?

Publish Time:2018-07-18


Through different experiments, SEM Associate Professor Yang Lifeng and her collaborators found that even when consumers exhibit strong moral judgement against a business ethics, their intention to engage in such behavior may not be predicted by their judgment of how unethical a behavior is. The research suggests the existence of a discrepancy between a persons ethical judgment and their ethical behavior. To prevent/reduce loss, businesses are encouraged to develop better safeguards against consumer misconduct that can potentially deviate from the manifested ethical values.

  

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