The Responses of Accounting Administrators to Ethically Ambiguous Situations: The Case of Fund Raising.

Ethical decision-making has become an increasingly important topic to academic and business leaders. One area in which ethical issues abound is fund raising. Many university accounting departments have a long-established tradition of external fund-raising efforts intended to augment university support budgets. As internal university funds become more limited, external fund-raising activities are likely to become even more critical to the success of accounting departments. This research is designed to describe the judgments of accounting program administrators when confronted with ethically ambiguous fund-raising situations and to examine the influence of environmental and organizational factors on those decisions.