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Creativity and ethics are two topics that are extremely important to business managers and researchers. However, only limited research has examined their relationship and has shown contradictory results: the effect of creativity on unethical behavior proves to be sometimes positive, sometimes negative. In this vein, building on social cognitive theory, we examine whether this relationship depends on a macroeconomic factor – endemic corruption – as a boundary condition. We further consider the mechanism through which creativity can lead to unethical behavior and focus on the role of subjective well‐being. We collect data from 1463 individuals in two high‐corruption and emerging countries, Brazil and China, and two low‐corruption and developed countries, France and the United States. Based on a multi‐level (or hierarchical) analysis, our results show that, in high‐corruption countries, creativity is negatively related to unethical behaviors. Conversely, in low‐corruption countries, the relationship is positive and mediated by subjective well‐being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why do young people from Generation Z (born between 1995 and the mid-2000s) become nomophobic consumers of smartphones? This research aims for a better understanding of nomophobia, the fear of being without mobile phone contact, and this from a cross-national perspective. Data collected from 1,326 young people (aged 16-24) from Brazil, China, France, and the United States demonstrate that nomophobia is positively related to materialism, the value that consumers place on the acquisition of material objects. A structural equation model shows that the different dimensions of materialism do not affect nomophobia uniformly across national identity. Nomophobia is positively related to the happiness dimension (possessions needed for happiness) in Brazil, to the success dimension (possessions as indicators of success) in China, and to the centrality dimension (possessions as central for the self) in France and the United States. These findings have notable implications for practitioners and researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why do adolescents engage in immoral consumer behavior, like changing a price or lying for a discount? Based on the theory of the need for social belonging, a study of 1,326 Brazilian, Chinese, American, and French adolescents aged 16–24 demonstrates the coexistence of two opposing relationships between belonging to a peer group and judgment of immoral consumption behavior: a direct relationship in which adolescents who feel most integrated are those whose judgment is the most severe, but also an indirect relationship, in which social belonging increases creative self-efficacy, which in turn makes the subject more forgiving of immoral behavior. The respective weights of direct and indirect paths vary with national culture, here the country of residence, and the value of individualism/collectivism. In Brazil and China, which have collectivist cultures, the direct path dominates. In the United States and France, which are more individualistic, the path is indirect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]