A Survey Study of Japanese Undergraduate Students' Views of Business Ethics : A Demographic Analysis of Their Moral Reasoning

Abstract

This paper reports the results of the survey of Japanese undergraduate students' views of business ethics conducted in 1998 by the members of the Empirical Research Working Group of JABES. The purpose of this study is to examine the ethical tendencies of 1426 Japanese undergraduate students, and to grasp the differences among demographic variables, such as sex, the degree of the comprehension of business ethics, the experience of attendance in business ethics course, and the behavior in dailylife.