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Record W1983437520 · doi:10.1108/13590791011033926

Corruption and ethical relativism: what is at stake?

2010· article· en· W1983437520 on OpenAlex
Michel Dion

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Financial Crime · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicEthics in Business and Education
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRelativismGuanxiCultural relativismNormativePhenomenonLanguage changeSociologyValue (mathematics)OriginalityMeaning (existential)Construct (python library)EpistemologyPerspective (graphical)Moral relativismBusiness ethicsPositive economicsLaw and economicsPolitical scienceLawSocial scienceEconomicsHuman rightsChinaPhilosophy

Abstract

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to see to what extent ethical relativism could be adopted as justification for corrupt practices. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyzed the various perspectives which were used to define the boundaries of corruption: a structural perspective, a social‐normative perspective, and an organizational‐normative perspective. It then identified the various ethics positions that could be chosen and particularly focuses on ethical relativism. Findings The paper finds that corruption should be considered not only as a social construct, a cultural phenomenon (from a social‐historical viewpoint), but also as an object for ethical reasoning (from a moral viewpoint). Owing to that fact that corruption serves both to sway people away from their moral duties and to favour self‐interest, we cannot look at corruption as if it would only be a cultural phenomenon. Originality/value The paper presents the case of guanxi networks as a cultural phenomenon that is not rooted in Confucian traditional texts, but that makes an integral part of the present Chinese culture. The distorted meaning of guanxi (as favoritism) should make everybody more cautious about the risk to undertake unethical actions.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.574
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.178
GPT teacher head0.427
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it