Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Second Edition

TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Never in the chequered history of the human race, has there been such an explosive growth of technology in such a short span of time as there is now. Technological innovations have brought in immense changes to manufacturing, transport and communications, information and knowledge management, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, banking and financial management and to a host of other spheres. The impact of these innovations on business and industry, as in other walks of life, is immeasurable. Methods and processes of productions have been shortened, distances reduced, and time taken lessened in every human endeavour. Business and trade have become global. The world itself has become so small as to be called ...