The State and Future Directions of Business Ethics Research and Practice
摘要
The following article sets out the basic paradoxes dominating the field of business ethics. First, despite ethics playing a prominent current role in the public rhetoric of business, significant and damaging unethical conduct by business continues to take place. In addition, despite the emergence of business ethics as a distinct area of research, there is scant evidence that the business ethics literature is impacting either the theory or practice of management. The author sets out two possible future directions for the business ethics field.