Willingness to Comply with Corporate Law: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Method in Higher Education

Rafael Robina Ramirez and Pedro R. Palos-Sanchez
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Rafael Robina Ramirez: Business Administration and Sociology, University of Extremadura, Avenida de la Universidad s/n, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
Pedro R. Palos-Sanchez: Business Administration and Marketing, University of Sevilla, Av. de Ramón y Cajal, 1, 41018 Sevilla, Spain

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-21

Abstract: Using an innovation training project, an interdisciplinary cross-sectional teaching strategy was developed to enhance students’ willingness to comply with the law. Thirty-five business, finance and accounting teachers examined the effects of ethical education on 484 university students’ willingness to comply with corporate law. Ethical education was based on building students’ ethical decisions on three court judgments in the new Spanish Corporate Governance Code. The ethical training was carried out by developing and applying social justice counter arguments. This perspective allowed students to imagine what decisions other person could have taken if they had managed the company ethically. The results suggest that ethics education in higher education can improve the willingness to comply the law. This methodology can be applied to interdisciplinary departments teaching ethics in business, finance and accounting.

Keywords: comply with law; ethical education; willingness; business; finance and accounting; PLS; interdisciplinary; cross-sectional (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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