Cruel intentions? – The role of moral awareness, moral disengagement, and regulatory focus in the unethical use of social media by entrepreneurs

Christian W. Scheiner; Katja Krämer; Christian V. Baccarella

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-39910-2_41

Cruel intentions? – The role of moral awareness, moral disengagement, and regulatory focus in the unethical use of social media by entrepreneurs

Christian W. Scheiner^*, Katja Krämer, Christian V. Baccarella

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Entrepreneurship and Business Development

University of Erlangen–Nuremberg

Abstract

Unethical behavior of entrepreneurs in the use of social media can have detrimental effects, both for the own entrepreneurial firm and also on competitors. In order to understand why entrepreneurs show unethical behavior a conceptual framework is developed in this paper, linking motives for financial gains, moral awareness, moral disengagement, and the tendency to make unethical decisions in the use of social media. This paper offers therewith insights into the cognitive processes of entrepreneurial decision-makers with respect to moral reasoning and ethical decision-making.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SCSM 2016: Social Computing and Social Media
Editors	Gabriele Meiselwitz
Number of pages	12
Volume	9742
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Publication date	22.06.2016
Pages	437-448
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-39909-6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-39910-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39910-2_41
Publication status	Published - 22.06.2016
Event	8th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media - Toronto, Canada Duration: 17.07.2016 → 22.07.2016 Conference number: 177799

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Scheiner, C. W., Krämer, K., & Baccarella, C. V. (2016). Cruel intentions? – The role of moral awareness, moral disengagement, and regulatory focus in the unethical use of social media by entrepreneurs. In G. Meiselwitz (Ed.), SCSM 2016: Social Computing and Social Media (Vol. 9742, pp. 437-448 ). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39910-2_41

Scheiner, Christian W. ; Krämer, Katja ; Baccarella, Christian V. / Cruel intentions? – The role of moral awareness, moral disengagement, and regulatory focus in the unethical use of social media by entrepreneurs. SCSM 2016: Social Computing and Social Media . editor / Gabriele Meiselwitz. Vol. 9742 Springer, Cham, 2016. pp. 437-448 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ).

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Cruel intentions? – The role of moral awareness, moral disengagement, and regulatory focus in the unethical use of social media by entrepreneurs. / Scheiner, Christian W.; Krämer, Katja; Baccarella, Christian V.
SCSM 2016: Social Computing and Social Media . ed. / Gabriele Meiselwitz. Vol. 9742 Springer, Cham, 2016. p. 437-448 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ).

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Scheiner CW, Krämer K, Baccarella CV. Cruel intentions? – The role of moral awareness, moral disengagement, and regulatory focus in the unethical use of social media by entrepreneurs. In Meiselwitz G, editor, SCSM 2016: Social Computing and Social Media . Vol. 9742. Springer, Cham. 2016. p. 437-448 . (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-39910-2_41

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