Perception of Business Bribery in China: the Impact of Moral Philosophy |
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Authors: | Tian Qing |
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Institution: | (1) Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China |
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Abstract: | This paper examines the impact of Chinese business managers’ moral philosophies on the perception of corrupt payments such
as bribery, kickbacks and gift giving. Business managers from Mainland China were selected as target respondents. As hypothesized
the survey results generally indicate that moral relativism is a significant predictor of Chinese business managers’ favorable
perception of bribery and kickbacks. In examining the attitude toward gift giving, the survey showed that an individual’s
attitude toward gift giving was neither affected by their moral relativism nor by their moral idealism, which implies that
gift giving is widely accepted as legal practice in business in Chinese cultural society.
Part of the paper was presented at the conference of World Business Ethics Forum, Nov. 1–3, 2006 in Hongkong and Macau. |
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Keywords: | bribery corruption China gift giving kickbacks moral philosophy |
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