The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

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Teaching business ethics

Current practice and future directions

Darin Gates, Bradley R. Agle, and Richard N. Williams

Business ethics is a burgeoning field of study and practice with vibrant academic and practitioner communities. Due to a combination of pioneering leaders in business and academe, many resources are currently being expended to understand and manage ethics in business.¹ Unfortunately, however, we would argue that the actions of the unscrupulous in business have probably had a greater effect on the growth of the field than have its leaders. Every time there is a major scandal or controversy in business, or set of scandals or controversies (some of the “high” points include the mid 80s, early 90s, and the crisis of 2008), ...