"This book explores a number of perspectives on how consumer culture affects individuals. It provides a tool to promote serious study of the origins and effects of consumer culture on individuals and on society, providing a platform to explore interpersonal interactions and to explore associated...

The purpose of this chapter is to explain why ethical evaluation of the impact of a merger or acquisition matters, to place ethical evaluation of M&A in the wider context of knowledge of business ethics and corporate governance, and to develop and demonstrate a framework for evaluating the...

This study examines the effectiveness of instruction in accounting ethics as measured by the impact of that instruction on the incidence of student plagiarism in a college writing assignment. This study avoids the potential problems inherent in measuring Machiavellianism via a psychological...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and begin to validate a scale to assess the shopping environment preferences of Hispanic consumers in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The sample consists of 160 Hispanic consumers attending a Hispanic festival in the southeast USA. A...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a methodology by which qualitative analyses serve as rich source materials for discovery of theoretically cogent interrelations between latent variables. Design/methodology/approach – In an illustrative case, qualitative data are collected...