Temptation, Monetary Intelligence (Love of Money), and Environmental Context on Unethical Intentions and Cheating

@article{Chen2014TemptationMI,
  title={Temptation, Monetary Intelligence (Love of Money), and Environmental Context on Unethical Intentions and Cheating},
  author={Jingqiu Chen and Thomas Li-Ping Tang and Ningyu Tang},
  journal={Journal of Business Ethics},
  year={2014},
  volume={123},
  pages={197-219}
}
In Study 1, we test a theoretical model involving temptation, monetary intelligence (MI), a mediator, and unethical intentions and investigate the direct and indirect paths simultaneously based on multiple-wave panel data collected in open classrooms from 492 American and 256 Chinese students. For the whole sample, temptation is related to low unethical intentions indirectly. Multi-group analyses reveal that temptation predicts unethical intentions both indirectly and directly for male American… Expand
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