Research on ethics in business today is being shaped by the explosive development of information technology (IT) and the growth of the Internet. We look at some of the factors that influence undergraduate student's opinions of cheating. Based on questionnaires administered to undergraduate students it appears that students exposed to some ethical issues in a class find cheating less acceptable than students who have not had any ethics content in a course. However, students who spend ten or more hours per week on the Internet find cheating more acceptable than do those students who spend fewer than ten hours per week.
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