20 Facts About Business ethics

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Business ethics is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics, that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment.

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Business ethics refers to contemporary organizational standards, principles, sets of values and norms that govern the actions and behavior of an individual in the business organization.

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Interest in business ethics accelerated dramatically during the 1980s and 1990s, both within major corporations and within academia.

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Business ethics was involved in slavery, colonialism, and the Cold War.

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The concept of business ethics caught the attention of academics, media and business firms by the end of the Cold War.

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One of the earliest written treatments of business ethics is found in the Tirukkural, a Tamil book dated variously from 300 BCE to the 7th century CE and attributed to Thiruvalluvar.

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Business ethics reflects the philosophy of business, of which one aim is to determine the fundamental purposes of a company.

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Corporations and professional organizations, particularly licensing boards, generally will have a written code of Business ethics that governs standards of professional conduct expected of all in the field.

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Finance Business ethics is overlooked for another reason—issues in finance are often addressed as matters of law rather than Business ethics.

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Business ethics is a game played by individuals, as with all games the object is to win, and winning is measured in terms solely of material wealth.

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Financial Business ethics is in this view a mathematical function of shareholder wealth.

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Marketing Business ethics was approached from ethical perspectives of virtue or virtue Business ethics, deontology, consequentialism, pragmatism and relativism.

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Marketing Business ethics is contested terrain, beyond the previously described issue of potential conflicts between profitability and other concerns.

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Marketing Business ethics involves pricing practices, including illegal actions such as price fixing and legal actions including price discrimination and price skimming.

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Business ethics held that corporations have the obligation to make a profit within the framework of the legal system, nothing more.

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International Business ethics Development Institute is a global non-profit organization that represents 217 nations and all 50 United States.

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Business ethics receives an extensive treatment in Jewish thought and Rabbinic literature, both from an ethical and a legal perspective; see article Jewish business ethics for further discussion.

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Business ethics is related to philosophy of economics, the branch of philosophy that deals with the philosophical, political, and ethical underpinnings of business and economics.

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Business ethics operates on the premise, for example, that the ethical operation of a private business is possible—those who dispute that premise, such as libertarian socialists do so by definition outside of the domain of business ethics proper.

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Business ethics is related to political economy, which is economic analysis from political and historical perspectives.

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