The impact of cumulative pressure on accounting students' propensity to commit plagiarism: an experimental approach

Adopting aspects of Jones, T.M., 1991, Academy of Management Review 16, 366-395 issue-contingent model of ethical decision-making to guide our choice of variables, we investigate perceptions of factors that affect student plagiarism. In an experimental setting, time pressure and assessment weighting...

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Main Authors: Koh, H., Scully, Glennda, Woodliff, D.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23280
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description Adopting aspects of Jones, T.M., 1991, Academy of Management Review 16, 366-395 issue-contingent model of ethical decision-making to guide our choice of variables, we investigate perceptions of factors that affect student plagiarism. In an experimental setting, time pressure and assessment weighting are manipulated between-subjects, whilst the severity of plagiarism is examined within-subjects. Our findings confirm that time pressure and assessment weighting are positively related to perceptions of the likelihood of plagiarism and that plagiarism is perceived as more likely for less severe acts. Further, the likelihood of plagiarism increases as the cumulative pressure of both time deadline and assessment weighting increases.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-232802017-09-13T16:00:44Z The impact of cumulative pressure on accounting students' propensity to commit plagiarism: an experimental approach Koh, H. Scully, Glennda Woodliff, D. moral intensity ethics plagiarism academic honesty accounting education Adopting aspects of Jones, T.M., 1991, Academy of Management Review 16, 366-395 issue-contingent model of ethical decision-making to guide our choice of variables, we investigate perceptions of factors that affect student plagiarism. In an experimental setting, time pressure and assessment weighting are manipulated between-subjects, whilst the severity of plagiarism is examined within-subjects. Our findings confirm that time pressure and assessment weighting are positively related to perceptions of the likelihood of plagiarism and that plagiarism is perceived as more likely for less severe acts. Further, the likelihood of plagiarism increases as the cumulative pressure of both time deadline and assessment weighting increases. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23280 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2010.00381.x Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia restricted
spellingShingle moral intensity
ethics
plagiarism
academic honesty
accounting education
Koh, H.
Scully, Glennda
Woodliff, D.
The impact of cumulative pressure on accounting students' propensity to commit plagiarism: an experimental approach
title The impact of cumulative pressure on accounting students' propensity to commit plagiarism: an experimental approach
title_full The impact of cumulative pressure on accounting students' propensity to commit plagiarism: an experimental approach
title_fullStr The impact of cumulative pressure on accounting students' propensity to commit plagiarism: an experimental approach
title_full_unstemmed The impact of cumulative pressure on accounting students' propensity to commit plagiarism: an experimental approach
title_short The impact of cumulative pressure on accounting students' propensity to commit plagiarism: an experimental approach
title_sort impact of cumulative pressure on accounting students' propensity to commit plagiarism: an experimental approach
topic moral intensity
ethics
plagiarism
academic honesty
accounting education
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23280