Resolving Moral Dilemmas in Business: A Multicountry Study
通过比较美国、葡萄牙和香港的MBA及商科学生在解决商业道德困境时的选择，发现个人主义社会的美国学生比集体主义社会的葡萄牙和香港学生更少自利、更关心他人。
This comparative field study evaluated the choices made by U.S., Portuguese, and Hong Kong Chinese evening MBA and graduating university business students when resolving business-related moral dilemmas. The authors developed hypotheses at the country level based on Hofstede’s ratings of each country’s national culture dimensions of power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and masculinity. The more individualistic U.S. respondents resolved the dilemmas with choices indicating less self-interest and more concern for unidentified others than did their Portuguese and Hong Kong Chinese counterparts, who are from more collectivist societies. The authors discuss implications for future cross-cultural research on business dilemmas and for cooperative interactions among managers from these and other countries.