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/why-is-it-un-ethical-comparing-potential-european-partners-a-western-christian-and-an-eastern-islamic-country--on-arguments-used-in-explaining-ethical-judgements(be2959d3-d890-452d-a4d1-e855ddd8ecf0).html