Are fair trade labels good business
For the past thirty years several attempts have been made to describe consumers in terms of their concern about societal problems (Roberts, 1996). As society changed, this concern shifted towards other topics.
There was the socially conscious or socially responsible consumer in the seventies (Anderson and Cunningham, 1972), whose range of action did not reach further than his own community From the late
Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in Africa
The 53 countries on the African continent can be divided roughly into three main zones based on their official languages. These three groups are the Arab-speaking countries in North Africa (the Maghreb zone), the French-speaking countries of central and western Africa (the Franc or Francophone zone), and the English-speaking countries of southern, eastern, and western Africa (the commonwealth states or Anglophone zone). Economic activity on the continent is dominated by three countries with Algeria, Egypt, and South Africa contributing
A Constructivist Approach to Business Ethics
Business ethics operates at the crossroads of various disciplines, inviting perspectives from economists, financiers, sociologists, organizational psychologists and philosophers. Each perspective commands an area of expertise bearing on the subject’s key questions and each employs
The nature of competition
Morality arises in response to the fact that human affairs, when left to their own devices,
have a tendency to go very badly. Thomas Hobbes summed it up best with his observation that the
unbridled pursuit of individual self-interest generates a “natural condition” in which life is
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
Business Ethics
Ethics are considered the moral standards by which people judge behavior. Ethics are often summed up in what is considered the “golden rule”—do unto others as you would have them do unto you. While this makes sense as a general rule of thumb, it is not entirely useful when looking to define business ethics. In business, there are many different people you have to answer to: customers, shareholders and clients.
