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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Assessment of the Target Model Implementation in the Wholesale Electricity Market of Greece by Filippos Ioannidis, Kyriaki Kosmidou, Kostas Andriosopoulos, Antigoni Everkiadi

“…Based on the feedback received by the rest of the European countries, which are already part of the European Single Market, this crucial period of time is considered transitional, when many distortions and unethical behaviors take place. Empirical findings indicate a relatively successful implementation of the Target Model in Greece, with price disorders mostly met in the Balancing Market.…”
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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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Exploring animal breeding through the lenses of authoritarian and liberal eugenics: why some breeding practices are wrong and what could be new ethical standards? by Edwin Louis-Maerten

“…But arguing so raises the question whether this renders all types of animal breeding unethical. I refute this conclusion and give some arguments to support an active use of more ethical kinds of breeding systems. …”
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An Explorative Study on the Null Secondary Science Curriculum in Bangladesh by Tapashi Binte Mahmud Chowdhury, Mohammad Nure Alam Siddique

“…Teachers argued that the topics were uncomfortable for them to teach, contradicted with religion, and students might misinterpret and practice unethical relationships if these topics were taught. …”
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Perlindungan Hak Atas Kebebasan Beragama dan Beribadah dalam Negara Hukum Indonesia by Fatmawati Fatmawati

“…It  means  not only ban unethical proselytism, but also ban desecration and abuse of religion in the Republic of Indonesia to protect security and public order to avoid unrest in society. …”
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Controlled human infection models in COVID-19 and tuberculosis: current progress and future challenges by Hazel Morrison, Susan Jackson, Helen McShane

“…CHIMs are in development for both tuberculosis (TB) and Covid-19, but challenges remain in their ongoing optimisation and refinement. It would be unethical to deliberately infect humans with virulent Mycobacteria tuberculosis (M.tb), however surrogate models involving other mycobacteria, M.tb Purified Protein Derivative or genetically modified forms of M.tb either exist or are under development. …”
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TRUST, AUTOMATION BIAS AND AVERSION: ALGORITHMIC DECISION-MAKING IN THE CONTEXT OF CREDIT SCORING by Rita Gsenger, Toma Strle

“…Importantly, although many advantages in applying ADM systems to complex choice problems can be identified, using ADM systems should be approached with care - e.g., the models ADM systems are based on are sometimes flawed, the data they gather to support or make decisions are easily biased, and the motives for their use unreflected upon or unethical.…”
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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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Effectiveness of Schwartz’s Motivational Values and Accounting Code of Ethics on Fraudulent Financial Reporting by Mona sadat Kaboli, Ali Rahmani, Hashem Nikoomaram, Fraydoon RahnamayRoodposhti

“…In response to recent cases involving materially misstated financial information arising from fraudulent financial reporting, stakeholder of entities and standard and regulated authority have increase their focus on strengthening effective factors on manger's unethical behavior.In experimental analyses, factors influencing the incidence of fraudulent financial reporting were assessed.We examined the effects of Schwartz’s motivational values and accounting codes of ethics, on whether managers misrepresented financial reports.In this study, the selected sample of 319 financial manager and executives in Tehran Stock Exchange were asked to respond to hypothetical situations involving fraudulent reporting procedures and were analyzed using partial least squares (PLS).The occurrence of fraudulent reporting was found to be high in managers with focus on individualism versus universal ism Schwartz’s motivational value. …”
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Patterns of unprofessional conduct by medical practitioners in South Africa (2007–2013) by Willem A. Hoffmann, Nico Nortjé

“…The majority of the unprofessional conduct involved fraudulent behaviour (48.4%), followed by negligence or incompetence in evaluating, treating or caring for patients (29%). Unethical behaviour by medical practitioners in South Africa occurs relatively infrequently.…”
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Quality of Life in Low-Risk MDS: An Undervalued Endpoint by Bert Heyrman

“…Current phase II trials with new medications do not collect data on health-related quality of life, a practice that I consider unethical. In this opinion I demonstrate the current attitude towards health-related quality of life in lower risk MDS patients among leading journals and trial sponsors with several recent examples. …”
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Animal Research Regulation: Improving Decision-Making and Adopting a Transparent System to Address Concerns around Approval Rate of Experiments by David Mawufemor Azilagbetor, David Shaw, Bernice Simone Elger

“…To ensure transparency and improve public trust and understanding of oversight, we propose the adoption of a platform to inform society about how unethical experiments are screened out.…”
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Child Abusing News: Episodic and Thematic Media Framing Adapting the Children Act and UNICEF’s Principles in Bangladesh by Nusrat Jahan, Mehedy Hassan Razib

“…Finally, the tabloid newspaper was found guiltier of unethical reporting than the broadsheets which established a significant connection between the tendency of principles violation and newspaper type. …”
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Nous Accusons - Revisiting Foucault's comments on the role of the 'specific intellectual' in the context of increasing processes of Gleichschaltung in Britain by Andrea Beckmann, Charlie Cooper

“…In the late nineteenth century, Emile Zola felt the urge and intellectual responsibility to challenge the unethical, unjust and oppressive operation of the French Republic, and wrote an open letter to the President of the Republic entitled ‘J’accuse’. …”
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Experiences of Faith-Based Organizations as Key Stakeholders in Policy Responses to Human Trafficking by Charles Hounmenou

“…All the respondents in the study concurred that efforts by any FBOs to convert trafficking survivors to a particular faith are unethical and counterproductive. The implications for practice, policy implementation, and research are discussed.…”
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Use of private military companies in international conflicts: Ethical controversies by Korać Srđan T.

“…The paper concludes that the cause of unethical performance of government functions, delegated to private military companies, is found in the discrepancy between the public service ethos and the profit-driven corporate management, as well as in the lack of willingness in the private sector to comply with the set of values based on ethical teachings on duty and virtue.…”
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Identify and analyze the opportunities and threats of social networks for shahid Beheshti University students by R. Tavalaee, Z. Sabaghi, N. Nezafati

“…Information obtained from the questionnaires using SPSS statistical analysis software in two parts: descriptive and inferential statistics were analyzed.The results indicate that five variables related to social networking opportunities, including e-learning, leisure, organized social groups, the possibility of dialogue and culture, as well as five variables related to social networking threats, including transfer value unethical, abusive, spreading false information, internet & Communications destructive addiction, has a significant positive effect on students.…”
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Legal Protection of Investors from the Corporate Malfeasance of Insider Dealings: A South African-Canadian Comparative Review by M. Oluyeju, O. Oluyeju

“…However, one corporate ill besetting the securities markets in all jurisdictions is insider trading. Apart from being unethical, insider trading disrupts market dynamics. …”
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An Overview of the Dynamics of Relative Research Performance in Central-Eastern Europe Using a Ranking-Based Analysis Derived from SCImago Data by Ioan Ianoş, Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor

“…Adaptive research policies simulate a real performance, in comparison with more restrictive ones, which are more likely to stimulate unethical behaviors such as self-citations or citation stacking, especially when used for the assessment of researchers. …”
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