This paper explores possible connections between gender and the willingness to engage in unethical business behavior. Two approaches to gender and ethics are presented: the structural approach and the socialization approach. Data from a sample of 213 business school students reveal that men are more than two times as likely as women to engage in actions regarded as unethical but it is also important to note that relatively few would engage in any of these actions with the exception of buying stock with inside information. Fifty percent of the males were willing to buy stock with insider information. Overall, the results support the gender socialization approach.
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Betz, M., O’Connell, L., & Shepard, J. M. (2013). Gender differences in proclivity for unethical behavior. In Citation Classics from The Journal of Business Ethics: Celebrating the First Thirty Years of Publication (pp. 427–432). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4126-3_20
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