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This index of ethics articles puts articles relevant to well-known ethical (right and wrong, good and bad) debates and decisions in one place – including practical problems long known in philosophy, and the more abstract subjects in law, politics, and some professions and sciences.
The journal was established in 1981 by Robert Baum, Norman E. Bowie, and Deborah Johnson.The journal has published special issues in cooperation with professional organizations in several countries, including The Academy of Business in Society (EABIS), Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics, the Markkula Center for Applied ...
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 (who contend that "business ethics" is an oxymoron) do so by definition outside of the domain of business ethics proper.
A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries gave examples of policy definitions. In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention[al] negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist", and in Sweden as "intention[al] distortion of the ...
Another example is descriptive business ethics, which describes ethical standards in the context of business, including common practices, official policies, and employee opinions. Descriptive ethics also has a historical dimension by exploring how moral practices and beliefs have changed over time.
Organizations that lack ethical practices as a mandatory basis of their business structure and corporate culture, have commonly been found to fail due to the absence of business ethics. Corporate downfalls would include, but are not limited to, the recent Enron and WorldCom scandals, two primary examples of unethical business practices ...
Ethical business considerations derived from Hinduism has become an important part of defining people's actions. The Gita details how the ethics of Hindu teachings influence business practices and involves how Dharma , meaning duty or ethics, encourages individuals to follow callings to move higher in life and to attain this duty and is ...
Ethics dumping is a concept in research ethics that describes the export of unethical research practices from higher-income to lower-income settings. [1] Ethics dumping can occur intentionally when researchers knowingly side-step restrictive regulatory regimes to undertake research abroad that would be prohibited in their home setting.