Abstract: Abstract Global business ethics has both empirical and normative aspects. From an empirical point of view it is an investigation of the actual ethical practices of profit oriented businesses engaged in buying and selling goods and services in the world economy. The normative point of view has two subdivisions. First, it is a discussion of the normative role businesses ought to play with respect to local and global moral problems; and second, given that role, of the ethical norms and procedures they ought to follow as they deal with specific issues such as poverty, wages and working conditions, corruption, healthcare, education, ethnic and religious conflict, environmental degradation, and human rights violations ( see Global Poverty; Rights) The primary focus of this essay will be on the first part of the normative aspect for two main reasons. First, it is important to be clear about the normative role of business before making judgments about what an individual business ought or ought not to do with respect to specific moral problems. Second, particular problems, e.g., environmental pollution, are both highly context dependent and rapidly changing, making it difficult to say anything constructive about what a business morally ought to do about them without a detailed analysis of local conditions. Such an analysis is beyond the scope of this essay. However, there are certain conditions in which global business operates that are essential for understanding the normative role of business. Some of these are briefly described in the next section.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-28
Language: en
Type: other
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