Business Ethics in Progress?

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Towards an Understanding of Business Ethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Rights and Interests in a Participatory Market Society

      • Henk van Luijk

      Pages 3-27

   3. Upholding or Breaking Ethical Rules?—Responses to Ethical Problems

      • Verner C. Petersen

      Pages 28-51

3. Reports from the Field

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Business Ethics and the Financial Community

      • Lars Bergkvist

      Pages 55-69

   3. Moral Support Structures in Swedish Industry

      • Tomas Brytting

      Pages 70-87

   4. Forming an Ethical Code by Dialogue Conferences

      • Hans De Geer

      Pages 88-102

4. Post-communist Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Control, Communication and Ethics The Dilemma of the Modernization-theory in Central and Eastern Europe

      • Làszlò Fekete

      Pages 105-111

   3. Actual Problems of Ethical Business for Small Entrepreneurs in Czechoslovakia

      • Lidmila Němcová

      Pages 112-116

   4. God and Profit

      • V. R. Rokitiansky

      Pages 117-121

5. Back Matter

   Pages 123-124

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Business ethics is increasingly paid attention to in the public debate. The rapid changes in business conditions, due to changing institutions, changing markets and new means of communication in business, call for a renewal of the discussion of ethics and morality in business life. Among many other things, the questions of equality of race, religion and gender, of environmental conditions for sustainable industrial growth and the necessity to supply meaningful jobs for the young generation call for eth­ ical consideration as an integrated part of the decision-making processes in business and society. The number of corporations and firms and of public bodies, that have written ethical codes and other instituted means of enhancing corporate ethics, is increasing. Business schools all around the world include business ethics in their curriculum. In this development scholars from different academic fields have con­ tributions to make. The interest in business ethics is not restricted to ethi­ cists and economists. Also researchers from other areas, like sociology, of its history and theology, join in the efforts. As an academic discipline own, if it is to be regarded as such, business ethics is a remarkably crea­ tive arena for exchange of ideas from different comers of the learned world. It is now our task to develop this sometimes confusing blend into a useful resource for the further moralising debate.

• Business
• Economy
• Organizational Studies
• business ethics
• ethics

• FA Institute for Research on Business & Work, Stockholm, Sweden

  Hans Geer

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