Author(s): Felix O. Ugwuozor, Brian C. Onwurah
Research on Business Ethics in Africa has been limited. This paper makes a contribution to this existing gap by assessing if there are significant differences between students’ potential business behaviour when they are exposed to Business Ethics Education and when they are not. This is based on the backdrop that many successful business men and women in Nigeria do not take Ethics courses. Furthermore, the motivation for students to start businesses is essentially for survival. Our findings show a similar pattern for both categories of students: those who took Business Ethics courses and those who did not. Thus, it is concluded that there are no significant differences in both groups of students in terms of the size, direction and significance of the determinants of their business orientations. Nonetheless, there are nuances in the role academic status, gender and intelligence play in influencing students’ business behaviour.