Analysing the components of attitude in a function of improving consumer protection in the Republic of Serbia by Ćirić Maja, Ignjatović Svetlana

“…Therefore there is a need for institutional protection of consumers from unfer and unethical business of companies, on the one hand, but on the other hand, they have to encourage themselves to be more involved in the protection of their rights. …”
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The Effect of Procrastination and Goal Orientation on Academic Dishonesty Moderated by Self-Efficacy in Postgraduate by Isna Mutmainah

“…This unethical behavior occurs because of the mindset of each individual, if the individual thinks everyone is cheating, then they will tend to cheat. …”
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Development of a successful microfinancing system: Actor-network theory perspective by Halina Waniak-Michalak, Jan Michalak

“…It enables access to capital to entrepreneurs who would not get it from banks. However, unethical acts, committed by some actors may cause the system to collapse or change in the future, as actors will adopt different goals and new actors will join in. …”
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Political connection as a double-edged sword: the case of tax aggressiveness practice during the COVID-19 pandemic by Astrid Rudyanto, Julisar Julisar, Debora Debora

“…Originality/value – Political connection is often cited as the driver of unethical business, including tax aggressiveness. However, this paper claims and finds that political connection is a double-edged sword. …”
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Bias in Scientific Research by Fatma Özdemir

“…A conscious bias is an intentional unethical act, made in order to achieve an intended result, ignoring scientific rules. …”
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Pragmatic and Idealist Public Accountants: Interpretation of Professional Ethics through Ricoeur's Hermeneutics by I Dewa Ayu Kristiantari, Made Sudarma, Lilik Purwanti, Ali Djamhuri

“…While the idealistic public accountant can avoid unethical action, the pragmatic public accountant is easily drawn into it.…”
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AI Ethics—A Bird’s Eye View by Maria Christoforaki, Oya Beyan

“…Subsequently, we focus on the concept of responsibility, both as personal responsibility of the AI practitioners and sustainability, meaning the promotion of beneficence for both the society and the domain, and the role of professional certification and education in averting unethical choices. Finally, we conclude with indicating the multidisciplinary nature of AI ethics and suggesting future challenges.…”
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Corruption in the Nigeria Police Force: A Response to a Hostile State by Chris Ifeanyi Oke

“…This research revealed that corruption and other unethical attitudes exhibited by the Nigerian Police Force are a response to the hostile milieu in which they are subjected to. …”
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Stimulative payroll system from the process theories of motivation point of view: A case study by Barjaktarović Sandra

“…The results indicate that regardless of the high salaries of employees (up to 30% higher than other employee salaries in the market), there is still high employee turnover and absenteeism, reduced motivation, dissatisfaction and unethical behavior. The causes are inadequate and unrealistic goals, non-transparent performance measurement, frequent changes in teams, lack of work resources and technical training, as well as numerous operational problems in the company. …”
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Rereading the Mathnawi of Mawlana Jalal Al Din Rumi from the standpoint of ethics management in the public sector by Yasar Uzun

“…If ethics cannot be maintained in the public sector, it would drive unethical behaviors of public officials that ultimately damage the public reputation and cause nepotism, irregularities, waste of public resources, loss of lives and properties, etc. …”
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Promoting quality education by addressing ethical challenges in high school football at circuit level in Durban, South Africa by Ayanda Ndlovu, Cecile N. Gerwel Proches, Rowena Naidoo

“…Age cheating and identity document fraud were perceived as the leading ways unethical leadership in the circuit facilitates cheating. …”
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Disengagement from Moral Disengagement: A Review of Individual Differences and Interventions Programs by Esra Yalçın, Büşra Aktaş

“…This review article addresses the previously shown evidence regarding individual differences, contextual factors, and interventions, which in turn aim to enrich our understanding of the underlying psychological mechanisms to reduce unethical behaviors. Taken together, Honesty-Modesty, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism were found to be individual differences associated with moral disengagement. …”
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Open-Access Academic Articles Requires Peer-Review Makeover: Consistency Is the Key by Witold Ostafiński

“…However, due to the inherent problems with these peer reviews, such as the length of time it takes referees to complete their analysis and the reviewer’s personal biases and potential unethical behavior, there is a growing consensus that a different review method needs to be developed for OA articles. …”
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Dark personality traits and deception, and the short dark tetrad (SD4) as integrity screening instrument by Eric Rassin, Melissa de Roos, Josanne van Dongen

“…Abstract Dark personality traits (Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Sadism) have been associated with aversive, unethical, and criminal conduct. Concise measurement tools such as the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) are popular, because they lend themselves as screening instruments. …”
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The commercialisation of anointed water in two ministries: An African theological perspective by Mookgo S. Kgatle, Vuyisile Qiki

“…This article argues that within a Pentecostal church setting, the use of water in healing should be juxtaposed with biblical practices to deal with the challenges of commercialisation of the commodity, its abuses, and other unethical practices. The integration of the African religious life and biblical practices is framed from an African theological perspective. …”
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Non-Facial Video Spatiotemporal Forensic Analysis Using Deep Learning Techniques by Premanand Ghadekar, Vaibhavi Shetty, Prapti Maheshwari, Raj Shah, Anish Shaha, Vaishnav Sonawane

“… Digital content manipulation software is working as a boon for people to edit recorded video or audio content. To prevent the unethical use of such readily available altering tools, digital multimedia forensics is becoming increasingly important. …”
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Humans and animal welfare in the Adventures of the Mouse-deer: an ecological discourse analysis by Ika Nurhayani

“…In conclusion, the mouse-deer folktales can serve as an environmental exposure for young children as long as the story emphasizes the struggle of wild animals due to exploitation and unethical treatments by humans. The folktale traditionally focuses on the mouse-deer’s tricks, but it can also serve a conservation purpose to protect the biodiversity and the species within it.…”
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Creative Accounting & Financial Reporting: Model Development & Empirical Testing by Fizza Tassadaq, Qaisar Ali Malik

“…The study concluded that a company is involved in frauds or scandals because of several factors like unethical behaviors, agency problem and non professional attitude. …”
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A Contemporary Survey on Deepfake Detection: Datasets, Algorithms, and Challenges by Liang Yu Gong, Xue Jun Li

“…Deepfakes are notorious for their unethical and malicious applications to achieve economic, political, and social reputation goals. …”
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PLAGIARISM IN DISSERTATIONS by M. S. Gelfand

“…We consider the established practices in the evaluation of independence in academic works. Unethical use of someone else’s work and materials by the authors of dissertations include, in particular, copying from official documents and abstracts without acknowledgement the source and with no citation; replication of existing reviews and chapters from already defended dissertations; falsification by refreshing of outdated data with substituted dates, and or wordfor-word copy-pasting with substitution of the research object. …”
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