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Situational ethics
About: Situational ethics is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4023 publications have been published within this topic receiving 145379 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theory called Situational Action Theory (SAT) and argue that acts of financial crimes result from a perception-choice process involving rational deliberation and experimental habituation, themselves being the outcomes of interactions between individuals and their environments.
Abstract: The paper maintains that all acts of financial crimes can be explained within a general theory of moral action and analyzed as such. In this regard, the paper presents such a theory – Situational Action Theory (SAT) – and argues that acts of financial crimes result from a perception-choice process involving rational deliberation and experimental habituation, themselves being the outcomes of interactions between individuals and their environments. To examine this argument, the paper draws on two recent high-profile fraud cases to critically discuss the extent to which these crimes should be meaningfully and innovatively analyzed as moral actions and the moral context in which they occur. The findings indicate that the feature most relevant to a criminogenic is its moral context in relation to the opportunities and frictions that it generates. As such, environmental factors along with psychosocial processes of moral education become particularly important in the explanation of why certain moral contexts emerge in particular kinds of settings at a particular point in time. In this regard, SAT can be used as a powerful overarching framework to gain a more comprehensive understanding of peoples’ choice processes to breach moral rules and devise effective crime prevention strategies to combat fraud.
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TL;DR: However, crisis communication in government public relations has not been extens... as discussed by the authors showed that government agencies may face a crisis due to their inappropriate responses to natural or man-made disasters.
Abstract: Government agencies may face a crisis due to their inappropriate responses to natural or man-made disasters. However, crisis communication in government public relations has not been extens...
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TL;DR: In this article, a 3 × 3 experimental design, male and female subjects provided purchasing preference ratings for, and rated each cologne on, a number of scales related to price, brand image and packaging, scent, and inferred characteristics of the typical consumer.
Abstract: The purpose of the study was to provide evidence for the influence of situational variables on consumer preferences toward the image product of men's fragrances, and to illustrate how these situational variables can be used to create positioning strategies. In a 3 × 3 experimental design, male and female subjects provided purchasing preference ratings for, and rated each cologne on, a number of scales related to price, brand image and packaging, scent, and inferred characteristics of the typical consumer. ANOVAs and a constrained unfolding analysis using GENFOLD2 were used to analyze the data. The analyses revealed that subjects' preferences were influenced by the purchasing target (self or others), and suggested that people's preferences may be mediated by person prototypes and situation prototypes. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, a socio-cognitive framework is described to study the interaction between designers and social groups, and experimentation with situational factors of creativity is presented, where social ties in a population of adopters are shown to shape the way in which designers are considered as change agents of their societies.
Abstract: This paper describes a socio-cognitive framework to study the interaction between designers and social groups. Experimentation with situational factors of creativity is presented. In particular, social ties in a population of adopters are shown to shape the way in which designers are considered as change agents of their societies.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an exemplar of conducting situational analysis within a grounded theory study that focuses on the perceptions of changing family boundaries in the process of leaving an abusive partner.
Abstract: An emerging offshoot of traditional grounded theory methods is situational analysis. This article presents an exemplar of conducting situational analysis within a grounded theory study that focuses on the perceptions of changing family boundaries in the process of leaving an abusive partner. Specifically, I used situational maps to supplement open coding and adapted situational mapping techniques to develop a family-level theory of the process of leaving. The practical and theoretical utility of situational analysis to supplement traditional grounded theory methods is immense, which makes the method highly adaptable to fit the needs of various qualitative research endeavors.
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