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Ethical Conduct in Business Organisations: The Opinion of Management Students in Gauteng
Ethical Conduct in Business Organisations: The Opinion of Management Students in Gauteng

Author(s): Maria Bounds, Geoff Goldman
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie
Keywords: business ethics; corporate citizenship; exploratory research; ethical conduct; stakeholder theory

Summary/Abstract: This study investigates the perceptions that business and management students have towards ethical practices of businesses organisations in terms of the environment, their employees, community, regulators and competition. This study employed an exploratory survey design to collect primary data via a self-administered questionnaire. Data were collected from 251 business and management students at a national university in Gauteng, South Africa. Apart from reliability statistics and descriptive statistics, one sample t-tests were employed to test stated hypotheses.

  • Issue Year: 3/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-27
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English