It is obvious that since Trevino wrote an article on ethical decision making in 1986, she has been exploring it ever since. Moreover, she probably had addressed this problem before that time. Indeed, since 1980s Trevino has been a member of the staff of Texas A&M University. Since then she was able to make a significant contribution to the issue by publishing books, researches, working with students of different level. Her image is known internationally nowadays. However, back in the time when the article in question was written she did not have such great reputation. That is why she had to engage different valid sources in order to support her point of view. For example she referred to Kohlberg model and considered it to be worthy since it
