Cheating by economics and business undergraduate students: an exploratory international assessment |
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Authors: | Aurora A C Teixeira and Maria Fátima Rocha |
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Institution: | (1) CEF.UP, Faculdade Economia, Universidade do Porto; INESC Porto, Porto, Portugal;(2) Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal |
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Abstract: | Today’s economics and business students are expected to be our future business people and potentially the economic leaders
and politicians of tomorrow. Thus, their beliefs and practices are liable to affect the definition of acceptable economics
and business ethics. The empirical evaluation of the phenomenon of cheating in academia has almost exclusively focused on
the US context, and non-US studies usually only cover a narrow range of countries. This paper presents a comprehensive, cross-country
study on the magnitude and determinants of cheating among economics and business undergraduates, involving 7,213 students
enrolled in 42 universities located in 21 countries from the American (4), European (14), Africa (2) and Oceania (1) Continents.
We found that the average magnitude of copying among economics and business undergraduates is quite high (62%) but there was
significant cross-country heterogeneity. The probability of cheating is significantly lower in students enrolled in schools
located in the Scandinavian, and the US and British Isles blocks when compared with their Southern European counterparts;
quite surprisingly this probability is also lower for the African block. On a distinctly different level, however, students
enrolled in schools in Western and especially Eastern European countries reveal statistically significant higher propensities
towards committing academic fraud. |
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