Business Ethics in Practice

Foreword

For too long the issue of ethics has been left at the margins of business education, seen either as a matter for externally imposed regulation (often in the face of corporate opposition) or for delegation to heads of corporate social responsibility whose internal status rarely matched their external projection. For many reasons this is now changing.

In the face of complex collective action problems – for example, sustainability and poverty reduction – corporations are being held to account both for what they do (eg emitting carbon) and for what they don’t (monitoring labour standards among their suppliers). The possibilities of data sharing and social activism offered by the Internet and greater expectations of transparency have meant ...