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Ethical Decision-Making Process

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Ethical decision-making models; Influential factors on ethical decision making; Steps and procedures to ethical decision-making; Unethical/ethical behavior or intent

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Ethical decision-making has been thoroughly studied in the scope of business ethics with the well-intentioned aim of modeling the processes through which agents make moral decisions. According to Bartels, who first presented an ethical decision-making model: “a model represents an attempt to explain the nature and behavior of some phenomenon, to show causes and effects in related variable” (Bartels 1967: 21). Thus, the aim pursued by researchers since more than five decades ago in designing ethical decision-making models has been to identify the factors that most influence individuals to carry out an ethical behavior when a moral dilemma is faced as well as to improve the general understanding on the different phases and steps in which any individual is involved prior to making a final...

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  1. Department of Management and Marketing, Universidad Pablo De Olavide, Sevilla, Spain

    Rafael Morales-Sánchez

  2. Business Management Department, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain

    Pablo Ruiz-Palomino

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  1. Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Deborah C Poff

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    Alex C. Michalos

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  1. Past President, Brandon University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Deborah Poff CM, PhD

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Morales-Sánchez, R., Ruiz-Palomino, P. (2022). Ethical Decision-Making Process. In: Poff, D.C., Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_1332-1

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