Fernando's Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, 3rd Edition

INTRODUCTION

Managers and executives make hundreds of decisions in an organization everyday in their busi-

ness dealings. Many of these decisions may be morally and ethically justiable, while some of

them, often taken in the context of exigencies of business or compulsions of competitive pres-

sures, may be unethical and even illegal. However, social thinkers, ethicists and academicians

would like businessmen to improve their ethical standards, notwithstanding the pressures and

compulsions of competitive business. This has become vital in the context of present day business

and social environment. This raises the million dollar question: how to ...