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Research Article

IT Ethics Perceptions and Behavior: An International Comparison

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Pages 418-427 | Published online: 09 Dec 2019
 

ABSTRACT

The paper discusses differences in IT ethics perceptions and behavior of college students. The study is one of the few that examine multicultural differences in IT ethics on a convenience sample of 1,648 individuals from seven countries in three continents. We adopted an Ethics Decision-Making Model with Cultural Impacts and applied it on the examination of relations between IT ethics perceptions, behavior, nationality and culture operationalized through Hofstede’s scores. We collected data through an online questionnaire where respondents evaluated 21 scenarios describing various IT ethical issues in the form of a narrative, and seven items on individual’s behavior toward IT ethics issues. The individuals’ perceptions of IT ethics and their behavior differed significantly, and most of these differences were associated with nationality and culture. Associations between perceptions and behavior were also uncovered, which leads to the importance of understanding perceptions in order to change less ethical behavior regarding IT use.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all colleagues who helped us with data collection.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Internal Grant Agency of the Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague under Grant number [20161028]; and the National Funds of the FCT – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology within the project [UID/ECO/04007/2019].

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