Science AI Journal
Decision Sciences · Research topic

Open research questions in Ethics in Business and Education

136 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 3,786 Ethics in Business and Education papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • Another limitation of this study concerns the measurement of individual cultural values. As a result, the culture–whistleblowing relationship could not be evaluated in terms of power distance. The study is also limited to the cultural contexts of Türkiye and Azerbaijan, which are considered relatively similar.

    THE EFFECT OF CULTURE ON ETHICAL ATTITUDES AND WHISTLEBLOWING INTENTIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON ACCOUNTING STUDENTS IN AZERBAIJAN AND TÜRKİYE · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research can expand on the current study by examining the model in different organizational contexts, such as private sector firms or non-profit institutions, to explore whether the effects of ethical leadership on communication, ethical climate, and employee response to change hold across sectors. Longitudinal studies would provide deeper insight into how these relationships evolve over time, particularly during periods of sustained organizational change. Additionally, including other mediating variables, such as employee trust, psychological safety, or organizational commitment, and potential moderators like organizational culture or hierarchical level, could offer a more nuanced understanding of the mechanisms through which ethical leadership influences employee outcomes. Cross-cultural studies are also recommended to validate the generalizability of the model across different socio-cultural settings, while qualitative approaches, such as interviews or focus groups, can provide richer insights into employees’ perceptions of ethical leadership and its impact on communication and ethical climate. Exploring these directions would strengthen both theoretical and practical understanding of how ethical leadership shapes adaptive and sustainable behaviors in organizations.

    Leading Green Change: The Hidden Role of Communication in Translating Ethical Leadership into Employee Adaptability · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should focus on the empirical examination and the CGMM framework. Three main directions emerge in this regard. First, a pilot study should be conducted to test the dimensions of to undertake the model and the measurement preliminary validation of instruments. Second, structural modelling can be used to explore the relationships among the different dimensions. Third, an international comparative study (Hungary–Romania–Poland) may provide insight into regional differences in compliance culture and maturity. These steps would make it possible for the conceptual framework to evolve into an empirically grounded and validated model.

    Measuring Compliance Maturity and Organizational Integrity: A Conceptual Framework for an Integrated Governance and Ethics Model · 2026 · DOI

  • for Nepali institutionalizing ethics businesses through clear codes of conduct, regular training, accountability mechanisms, and ethical audits while simultaneously nurturing morality as a guiding compass. Leaders must set the tone for ethical culture, integrate ethical audits into governance, and ensure decision-making consistently reflects both moral conscience and institutional responsibility. Through this integrated approach, Nepali businesses can navigate globalization, technological disruption, and cultural diversity while maintaining integrity of both individual moral compasses and institutional ethical frameworks, ultimately contributing transparent, and sustainable economic environment benefiting all stakeholders.

    The Dual Pillars of Conduct: Analyzing the Theoretical and Practical Intersections of Morality and Ethics in Nepali Business · 2026 · DOI

  • The study contributes to the literature by empirically integrating TPB and the Fraud Triangle within a single explanatory framework and by focusing specifically on dependent accountants—a relatively underexplored professional group. Comparatively limited research examines dependent accountants—those working under employment contracts within private organizations—who operate under hierarchical authority, organizational pressure, and potential career risk.

    Bilgi İfşası (Whistleblowing) Niyetinin Açıklanması: Muhasebeciler Üzerine Kanıtlar · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could examine similar court-based or legal-institutional learning experiences across different cultural and disciplinary con- texts, incorporate baseline and delayed follow-up data, and use com- plementary methods to explore whether students’ reflective responses persist and translate into professional action.

    Learning ethical sensitivity through authentic legal experience: an educational psychology perspective on court hearing engagement · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could address this limitation by ARTICLE IN PRESS ARTICLE IN PRESS conducting comparative analyses across different disciplines. Therefore, future research may explore whether these relationships can be found in other countries or educational systems, thereby highlighting an in-depth understanding of how institutional, cultural, and professional factors interrelate to affect academic ethics globally.

    The impact of self-leadership and involution stress on academic ethics among university faculty members in China · 2026 · DOI

  • Originality/value While ethics education in management and HRD studies is widely acknowledged, there is a significant gap in understanding the psychological mechanisms that explain the maintenance of self-identity and the dynamic interplay between individuals and their social environment.

    Ethics education in management in academia and HRD: an identity control theory-based model · 2024 · DOI

  • China now graduates and employs more STEM majors than any other country, but the moral cognition and ethics education of Chinese engineers remain understudied.

    Exploring the relations between ethical reasoning and moral intuitions among Chinese engineering students in a course on global engineering ethics · 2024 · DOI

  • Purpose Although the academic literature provides extensive insight into the motivations for the unethical use of information technology in online classes, little is known about how perceived justice, the opportunity to cheat and spiritual legitimacy mitigate unethical behavior among young academics.

    Can spiritual power reduce online cheating behavior among university students? The fraud triangle theory perspective · 2023 · DOI

  • Although many scholars in Western countries have studied CSR at the macro and micro levels of an organisation, there is still a lack of evidence-based research in post-Soviet countries to assess the impact of organisational social responsibility practices on employees’ behaviour.

    Relationship between employees’ attributions of corporate social responsibility, organisational justice and turnover intention: evidence from a post-Soviet country · 2022 · DOI

  • However, previous research has indicated RCR-based training is insufficient to address the ethical dilemmas that are prevalent within academic settings: navigating issues of authorship, modeling relationships between faculty and students, minimization of risk, and adequate informed consent.

    Reflecting on Responsible Conduct of Research: A Self Study of a Research-Oriented University Community · 2021 · DOI

  • It is noteworthy, however, that the facet of the personality‐like construct of justice sensitivity displayed inconsistent findings and no mediating effect when examined as a separate model.

    Self‐reported academic performance and academic cheating: Exploring the role of the perceived classroom (in)justice mediators · 2021 · DOI

  • This critical gap in the literature may conceivably be a stumbling block to responsible business/political/societal action and its theoretical/empirical understanding and effectiveness; therefore, we can legitimately ask ourselves whether a social ontology-focused approach can be considered relevant to this field of study.

    Exploring the “relational” link between responsibility and social ontology · 2019 · DOI

  • Originality/value This study recognized the gap in the literature, and it contributes to the body of knowledge through an examination of the mediating role of intrinsic motivation between ethical leadership, OCB and turnover intention, relying on the cognitive evaluation theory.

    The influence of ethical leadership on academic employees’ organizational citizenship behavior and turnover intention · 2018 · DOI

  • Problem, research strategy, and ­findings: Planners must constantly consider the ethics of their professional behavior, yet few studies have specifically investigated the ethical landscape for those planners working in private practice, assuming that all members of the profession are subject to similar ethical considerations.

    Special Ethical Considerations for Planners in Private Practice · 2017 · DOI

  • In 1996, a worldwide survey was conducted to reflect the state-of-the-art of business ethics in world today, with its challenges, initiatives, achievements, and open questions (Enderle 1997: 1475).

    The Toolkit and the Carpenter: Teaching the Critical Distinction between Business Ethics and Personal Morals. · 2016

  • Ten years after the adoption of the revised Model Standards in 2005, this Article comes to fill the gap in the literature and open the discussion on the next version of the Model…

    A Critical Assessment of the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators (2005): Call for Reform · 2016

  • In turn, it leads to yet another important conclusion: since even after several thousand of years of debate not a single understanding regarding moral has emerged so as to become universally accepted, the task of ethics as such is, therefore, to be expanded to solve the problem relating to the Even today there is no agreement as to the concept and definition of business ethics in science.

    Business ethics in-between general ethics and business practice · 2009

  • We relate our results to previous contradictory findings in the area of business ethics, as well as research concerning PWE endorsement and affluence cues.

    Students' Perceptions of Questionable Workplace Behaviors: The Effects of Perceiver and Actor Attributes · 2005 · DOI

  • Over the period of the study, social workers and other human services staff and volunteers used the ethics audit to achieve outcomes that included provision of legitimate space for discussion of ethics in the workplace, and identification of gaps in knowledge and skills about ethical practice, and the policies and procedures that support and enhance such practice.

    Putting ethics on the organisational agenda: The social work ethics audit on trial · 2005 · DOI

  • In the first an argument is made that negative moral assessments of institutions are insufficient bases from which to infer similar negative moral assessments of the actions of the organizations that embody those institutions or the individuals that perform institution‐constituted actions within those institutions.

    Inference gaps in moral assessment: capitalism, corporations and individuals · 2005 · DOI

  • Although their study was limited to academic psychologists, research on ethical issues involved in teaching per se suggests that many of the themes are generalizable across disciplines (Keith-Spiegel, Wittig, Perkins, Balogh, & Whitley, 1993).

    The Ethics of Faculty Behavior: Students' and Professors' Views · 2001

  • In this article, we attempt to separate myth from reality by reviewing research results pertinent to two questions: are whistle-blowers really crackpots and do most of them suffer retaliation following their actions? Because scholars interested in these questions have come from several different fields, and because integration is lacking among their perspectives, myth is often perpetuated.

    Whistle-Blowing: Myth and Reality · 1996 · DOI

  • The limited research reported which compares the level of moral judgment of teacher education students with that of other college students indicates that teacher education students score significantly lower in levels of moral reason ing (Wilkins, 1980; Tan-Willman, 1978; Bloom, 1976).

    Levels of Moral Judgment of Faculty and Students in a Teacher Education Program: A Micro Study of an Institution. · 1988

Most-cited papers in Ethics in Business and Education

Most recent work

Find a gap in your own Ethics in Business and Education sub-topic

This page shows what the Ethics in Business and Education literature already flags as unresolved. To narrow it to your specific question, run the guided finder — it searches the gap library on demand and checks candidates against 250M+ OpenAlex works.

Open the Research Gap Finder →

Related topics in Decision Sciences

Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
339 open questions
scientometrics and bibliometrics research
253 open questions
Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
241 open questions
Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
133 open questions
Construction Project Management and Performance
123 open questions
Educational Assessment and Improvement
105 open questions
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
86 open questions
Stock Market Forecasting Methods
77 open questions
136 open questions have been extracted from the limitations and future-work passages of 3,786 Ethics in Business and Education papers in our library. Each one below links back to the study that raised it, so you can read the original claim in context.

Tools for your next paper

Gaps & Literature SearchFind open questions in any field — 120,000+ open gaps mined from our own library.Pre-CheckIs your paper ready? A Tier 1–5 acceptance probability in seconds.Journal FinderA ranked shortlist of target journals from a 17,500-venue index.Duplicate Publication CheckerCheck prior-publication & salami-slicing risk across 8 sources.Citation GeneratorFreeA DOI or title → APA, MLA, Vancouver, Chicago, BibTeX, RIS. No signup.Graphical Abstract MakerFreeTurn your findings into a colorblind-safe graphical abstract.

Compare the category — Honest roundups of the AI research tools, ours listed alongside the alternatives.

Command palette

Jump anywhere, run any action.