Cross-cultural differences in ethical attitudes: Reality or theory?

There may be a theory about cross-cultural differences in ethical attitudes, but are there really differences throughout the world? In this research, researchers tried to identify significant differences in business ethics between students from China and the USA. The students were asked to agree/disagree with eight statements concerning business ethics. Seven statements showed significant differences between the Chinese and American students. As this research shows, we can conclude that there may be indeed differences in business ethics throughout the world. Nevertheless, we must be careful with this conclusion as we can't generalise this comparison.

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Peter Depypere