To Cheat or Not to Cheat: Rationalizing Academic Impropriety

Accounting Education

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 265-287

  MacGregor, Jason ^a   Stuebs, Martin ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cheating; ethics; fraud; incentives; Rationalization; trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863542513     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2011.617174     Document Type: Article

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