ERIC Number: EJ1234198
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 12
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Loneliness as Impetus, Isolation as Inertia: Reporting Cheating Peers in Business School
Smith, Brent; Rippé, Cindy B.; Dubinsky, Alan J.
Journal of Education for Business, v94 n8 p491-502 2019
Business education scholarship has explored cheating behavior as a function of demographics, culture, personality, and other factors. Expanding current knowledge on the topic, the authors provide the first known empirical investigation of two negatively valenced psychosocial conditions--social loneliness and social isolation--in relation to students' decisions to (not) report their peers' cheating behaviors. Surveying 231 graduate business students from Europe and South Asia, the authors find that social loneliness gives impetus for students to report such behaviors, while social isolation provides inertia to not report them. The results offer fresh insights for faculty and administrators hoping to improve their understanding of academic dishonesty among business students.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Business Administration Education, Business Schools, Social Isolation, Cheating, Disclosure
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany; India; United Kingdom
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