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April 25, 2026The International Journal of Management EducationOpen Access

Cultural scripts and the curricular positioning of business ethics in management education: A cross-national analysis

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MPMirela Popa

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Cross-national analysis identifies variations in business ethics curriculum positioning, shaping ethical readiness in students.

Key Points

  • This study examines how curricular structures and cultural scripts influence students' ethical readiness in management education.
  • Conducted a cross-national scan of 128 undergraduate management programmes in 32 countries.
  • Performed interpretive analysis of obedience-related proverbs and cultural indicators from Hofstede, GLOBE, and World Values Survey.
  • Established a diagnostic framework linking curriculum mapping and cultural insights.
  • Identified that Anglo and Nordic universities embed business ethics as mandatory, while Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Asian programmes often treat it as elective or integrated.
  • Found that mandatory business ethics provision correlates with low power distance and self-expression cultural contexts.
  • Documented that cultural proverbs influence students' interpretation of responsibility and ethical voice in hierarchical collectivist settings.

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Mirela Popa (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ec598788ba6daa22dab629https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2026.101423
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