Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop: Introduction

Ian W. Jones and Michael Pollitt

Chapter 1 in Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop, 2002, pp 1-13 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Corporate governance, executive pay, the use of child labour and control of industrial pollution are all examples of business ethics issues that today’s companies must face. Such issues surface increasingly commonly in the running of companies, and managers and directors find them impossible to ignore. Indeed, there are many examples of companies becoming negatively associated with such issues: Robert Maxwell’s Maxwell Communications Corporation (corporate governance),1 British Gas (executive pay),2 Nike (child labour)3 and Union Carbide (industrial pollution).4 However, while the issues themselves invite huge amounts of comment about how to deal with them, the process by which the issue develops over time is a much less discussed area. A key to being a sustainable company is the development of a capacity to understand and predict how such issues develop over time.

Keywords: Business Ethic; Corporate Governance; Genetically Modify; Child Labour; Genetically Modify Crop (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230511033_1

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