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Libertarian business ethics and corporate profit maximization

Business ethics may not be an oxymoron, but one must be clear as to what one means by business ethics in a corporate context. Ethicists cannot subsume a code of business ethics into other, more inchoate notions of social responsibility and personal virtues.

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Business ethics: principles, development, and professional application

According to the dictionary definition, ethics refer to the "set of principles of right conduct, or more specifically, "the rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession." Ethics and morals are closely related, but ethics is the term more commonly used in the…

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Machan and Chesher's libertarian business ethics on insider trading and environmental protection

In Chapter 8, of Machan & Chesher's book: A Primer on Business Ethics, they claim that acting fairly is not a "primary moral duty"(p. 135). They go on to argue that insider trading is only unethical if one has "a prior obligation to share information with others"(p. 135).

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Business ethics and customer support in B2C e-commerce

Business to Customer E-Commerce, or B. 2 C. As it is commonly known, is when companies sell products or services to the customer, over the Internet.

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Corporate policies on workplace romance: ethics and business concerns

Many companies have rules requiring that employees do not date or marry fellow employees. The companies have a variety of reasons for this. Some companies believe that when employees date each other, it distracts one or both from the work they should be doing, resulting in lowered work efficiently.

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Business ethics and employee commitment in modern organizations

Despite the vastly broad range of answers that would fit in accordance to the context of such a question, and as related through Business Ethics, there are two direct subtopics that may prove to accurately cover what is assumed to be sought in the question being asked.

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Business ethics in Russia, China, and Germany: comparative analysis

This work in writing will discuss the business ethics in view of countries that are foreign to one another and specifically the countries of Russia and China and Mexico.

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Reconciling ethics and profitability in modern American business

The last several decades have seen American enterprises beset by a number of ethical scandals, spanning from the accounting fraud of Enron and WorldCom to that of the recent subprime housing debacle and credit crisis of 2008.

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Business ethics and moral constraints for international organizations

To what extent should a business be constrained by the moral norms of a society? A business organization does not exist with the sole purpose of maximizing its profits; it is also supposed to be a socially responsible corporate citizen.

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Lesson plan design for teaching business ethics in the workplace

This lesson plan will be designed to teach students traditional and conventional moral philosophies, standards and ethical convention in a corporate/business environment.

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