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Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Education: Shifting the Worldview.pdf

In Business Ebooks » Business Ethics » Tags: , , » Comments Off » June 18, 2010

Written by ROBERT A. GIACALONE, Temple University & KENNETH R. THOMPSON, DePaul University: While the topics of business ethics and social responsibility education have received much attention in scholarly and pedagogical literature (although less in the pedagogical literature), the authors argue that the core teaching problem has not been discussed, that is, the worldview underpinning all of management education. The authors discuss this worldview, propose a more ethics-friendly worldview, and provide some considerations of its implication.


Business Ethics and Intercultural Communication: Exploring the overlap between two academic fields.pdf

A paper by: Johannes Brinkmann, Norwegian School of Management BI. The main intention of this paper is to demonstrate that intercultural communication as an academic field should incorporate business ethics concepts and theory.2 Business ethics is a well-institutionalised 3 academic field, too, which deals with the moral dimension of business activity.4 This paper offers a brief presentation of business ethics and how this field approaches the moral dimension of cross-cultural business activity (cf. for a broader presentation of business ethics as an academic field Brinkmann 2001a, for a more sceptical one Brinkmann.

Why Business Ethics.pdf

In Business Ebooks » Business Ethics » Tags: » Comments Off » October 7, 2009

Everyone agrees that business managers must understand finance and marketing. But is it necessary for them to study ethics?

Business Ethics – A Manual for Managing a Responsible Business Enterprise in Emerging Market Economics.pdf

In Business Ebooks » Business Ethics » Tags: , , , , » Comments Off » July 8, 2009

Purpose of This manual (taken from foreword page xi): This manual is intended to aid enterprises in designing and implementing a business ethics program that meets emerging global standards of responsible business conduct. Owners and managers can explore the substantial body of global standards, procedures, and expectations described here. They can adopt or adapt them on a sector-by-sector and enterprise-by-enterprise basis, taking into account their particular circumstances, such as applicable laws and regulations, the size of the enterprise, and the enterprise’s purpose.