For Business Ethics.(Book review)

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For Business Ethics

by Campbell Jones, Martin Parker and Rene ten Bos, 2005, (Routledge, London & New York), paperback, 210 pages. ISBN 0415311357

Ethics has always had a somewhat uneasy place in business education. Is its purpose to inform and enlighten; to impart a moral turn to technical skills; to dispel vice and inculcate virtue? The history of business ethics provides few answers to these questions. Early opponents claimed that ethics was not teachable or should have been learned elsewhere and earlier. Since the 1980s, the subject has gained an increasing, if ...

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