Moral Awareness in Business Organizations: Influences of Issue-Related and Social Context Factors
研究通过实地实验发现，道德意识受议题后果大小、道德框架、竞争环境及社会共识的影响，对理解商业决策中的道德认知有参考价值。
Individuals' awarenessof moral issues is an important first step in the ethicaldecision-making process. Relying on research in social cognition andbusiness ethics, we hypothesized that moral awareness is influenced byissue-related factors (magnitude of consequences of the moral issueand issue framing in moral terms) and social contextrelated factors(competitive context and perceived social consensus that the issue isethically problematic). The hypotheses were tested in a fieldexperiment involving 291competitive intelligence practitioners.Results generally supported the hypotheses. Qualitative analysisyielded additional insights into the content of respondents' moralawareness.