How to build an appropriate information ethics code for enterprises in Chinese cultural society

  • Authors:
  • Christina Ling-hsing Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Pingtung Institute of Commerce, 7F.-2, No. 21, Renyi St., Lingya District, Kaohsiung City 802, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Computers in Human Behavior
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Information ethics codes play a vital role in clarifying the responsibilities of MIS (management information systems) professionals and providing them with a point of reference when dealing with ethical issues. In view of the important 21st Century role played by China, particularly Mainland China, which represents a hugely significant market to all global enterprises, it is hoped that this study will assist the business world in understanding the culture in which Chinese business is conducted, and will facilitate the building of a suitable information ethics code in the future. Academically, this paper aims to explain how Confucian ethics and the guanxi culture perspective affect MIS professionals' ethical dilemmas and reactive processes. Specifically, it examines the reactive processes of MIS professionals in CHSyst (pseudonym) in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. In practice, this study provides a good reference for enterprises such as the above that wish to find the most appropriate way to create an ethics code suitable for a Chinese company context to prevent Chinese MIS professionals from behaving unethically in their workplace. Such a code will serve to reduce the negative consequences of unethical conduct for the organization.