The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

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Part V

Economic institutions

Operations and effects

Introduction

Business takes place not in abstraction, but within the context of a number of institutions. It also takes place within what we might think of as the ultimate context: the natural environment. What should business ethicists say, if anything, about the background institutions within which business is done? What should business ethicists know about those institutional backdrops, regardless of whether these institutions will be the subject of business ethics analysis and argument? What does the natural environment mean for business ethics? The chapters in this section turn the analytical spotlight onto the contexts shaping business practice.

The section opens with Chapter 18 ...