Business Ethics and the Development of Intellectual Capital
Business ethics is the ethical reflection of a business towards its behaviours and their impacts (Epstein 1987, 1989). This reflection can be shown in its emphasis of corporate values upon integrity, accountability, honesty, trust, fairness, responsibility, cooperation, mutuality, professionalism and open communication (Weeks and Nantel 1992; Kaptein 2004; Schwartz 2005).