Why is it (Un-) Ethical: Comparing Potential European Partners: A Western Christian and an Eastern Islamic Country - On Arguments Used in Explaining Ethical Judgements

Autor(en)

Katharina Auer-Srnka, Ercan Gegez, S. Burak Arzova

Abstrakt

Located at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western world, Turkey today is characterized by a demographically versatile and modernizing society as well as a rapidly developing economy. Currently, the country is negotiating its accession to the European Union. This article yields some factual grounding into the ongoing value-related debate concerning Turkey’s potential EU-membership. It describes a mixed-methodology study on moral reasoning in Austria and Turkey. In this study, the arguments given by individuals when evaluating ethically problematic situations in business were compared. Although there were major consistencies, a number of differences were found. These differences, however, were not in the substance (categories) of arguments used but in their relative frequency. Overall, our findings suggest that young, well-educated urban individuals from Western Christian and Eastern Islamic countries are highly consistent in their moral reasoning.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Rechnungswesen, Innovation und Strategie

Externe Organisation(en)

Marmara University

Journal

Journal of Business Ethics

Band

74

Seiten

101-118

Anzahl der Seiten

18

ISSN

0167-4544

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9223-1

Publikationsdatum

2007

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

5020 Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/be2959d3-d890-452d-a4d1-e855ddd8ecf0