Decision-Making Processes on Ethical Issues
研究构建了一个分析伦理决策的框架，并检验社会契约视角的适用性。通过对学生和销售人员的两组样本调查，发现社区成员（销售人员）更倾向于将潜在不道德行为视为违反隐性社会契约，而非社区成员（学生）则不然。
This paper develops a framework for examining decision making about ethical issues and tests the applicability of a social contract perspective. Using two separate samples of students and salespeople, we determine that community members (salespeople) tend to judge a potentially unethical act to constitute a violation of an implicit social contract and non-community members (students) do not. Also, consistent with the emphasis on context specificity of integrative social contracts theory, situational variables influence perceptions of ethicality for the community members, but do not affect the perceptions of individuals outside the community. The study finds considerable support for the use of a social contractarian perspective in the study of decision-making processes about ethical issues.