scholarly journals Issue-Driven Progress in Business Ethics: When the Responsibility to Protect Values Requires Companies to Introduce New Norms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muel Kaptein
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issue ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Norm ◽  
Norm Theory ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
A Company ◽  
Value Belief Norm Theory

<p>This article is about when a company should introduce a new ethical norm. By using the Value–Belief–Norm theory, I argue that the<i> </i>more an ethical issue threatens an ethical value and the more a company has an ethical responsibility to protect such value against such threat, then the more desirable it is for a company to establish ethical norms to protect that particular value. The introduction of a new ethical norm then becomes more desirable when the threat from such an ethical issue increases and/or the ethical responsibility of the company increases. Distinguishing seven characteristics of an ethical issue and four conditions of a company’s ethical responsibility helps in identifying the situation in which a company should introduce a new ethical norm. The resulting framework, with corresponding guidelines, explains why and when progress in business ethics is needed.</p>

scholarly journals Issue-Driven Progress in Business Ethics: When the Responsibility to Protect Values Requires Companies to Introduce New Norms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muel Kaptein
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issue ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Norm ◽  
Norm Theory ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
A Company ◽  
Value Belief Norm Theory

<p>This article is about when a company should introduce a new ethical norm. By using the Value–Belief–Norm theory, I argue that the<i> </i>more an ethical issue threatens an ethical value and the more a company has an ethical responsibility to protect such value against such threat, then the more desirable it is for a company to establish ethical norms to protect that particular value. The introduction of a new ethical norm then becomes more desirable when the threat from such an ethical issue increases and/or the ethical responsibility of the company increases. Distinguishing seven characteristics of an ethical issue and four conditions of a company’s ethical responsibility helps in identifying the situation in which a company should introduce a new ethical norm. The resulting framework, with corresponding guidelines, explains why and when progress in business ethics is needed.</p>

scholarly journals Znaczenie etyki biznesu w kształtowaniu współczesnych norm i wartości

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Anna Dziadkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Sales Promotion ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Credible Information ◽  
A Company ◽  
Enterprise Activity

The role of business ethics is the main subject of this article. A lot of emphasis has been placed on this issue recently both in non-profit and profit activities, because it enhances managerial and employees’ sense of responsibility for compliance of their actions and results of business activities of a company with current ethical norms in the society. The article aims to highlight the role of business ethics in education and then applying it in business. It is a sign of proper treatment of employees and customers and creating value added, which is often neglected in a program of managerial studies. It is said that law limits enterprise activity “from outside”, while ethics limits it “from inside”. Is ethical behaviour a barrier though? This article presents business ethics as a chance to reinforce an enterprise image and build a corporate advantage on the market. It shows a necessity of behaviours in line with ethical rules behaviour in promotion, advertisement, sales promotion etc. that requires credible information without unethical manipulation. And where we can learn about business ethics – in education, especially because the analysis of businessmen behaviour in Poland requires work from scratch.

PELANGGARAN ETIKA BISNIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Nurul Qomariyah
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Business People ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Moral Aspect ◽  
A Company

Violations of business ethics that occur at this time, become a problem in itself. One of the factors supporting the occurrence of these violations is due to lack of basic knowledge about business ethics and the freedom of business people in carrying out economic activities, as a result many business people are competing in improving market mechanisms, Business should be assessed from a moral standpoint, just like all other human activities also seen from a moral standpoint. Because when not looking at the moral aspect of doing business, business people only think about how to increase sales turnover, and not only increase turnover, but also do things that are not ethical, such as: bribery, corruption, collusion and nepotism, it makes people uneasy . Adverse effects that will occur if a company is immoral and enforces the norms that apply in business ethics then it can have an impact on consumers' distrust of their products and can complicate business development again. Key words : Violation, Bussines ethic, case

scholarly journals The Role of Business Ethics in the Relationship between Market Orientation and Business performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-94
Author(s):  
Gusti Oka Widana ◽  
Sudarso K Wiryono ◽  
Mustika S Purwanegara ◽  
Mohamad Toha
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Managerial Implication ◽  
Strategic Actions ◽  
Islamic Business Ethics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company

The positive of impact of market orientation toward business performance of a company is a common wisdom in the marketing literatures. Hence the prior studies recommend that the connection will depend on other strategic actions. In this regards, this study tries to assess the construct of business ethics as the precedent of market orientation in the context of Indonesia Islamic banks. Upon assessing data using SmartPLS, this study finds that market orientation is the determinant of business performance and Islamic business ethics is the precedent of market orientation. However, market orientation is not effective as the mediator in the relationship between Islamic business ethics and business performance. The discussion of this finding is provided as well as the managerial implication at the end of this paper.

scholarly journals Business Ethics Crisis and Social Sustainability. The Case of the Product “Pura Vida” in Peru

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Peñaflor-Guerra ◽  
M. Victoria Sanagustín-Fons ◽  
Julianna Ramírez-Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Management Staff ◽  
A Company ◽  
Depth Interviews

Peru is a Latin American country with one of the most powerful and dynamic emerging economies in the world; however, it reveals considerable inconsistencies and socioeconomic inequalities. This research demonstrates that business ethics and corporate social responsibility are closely related with the welfare state of the country/region where a company is incorporated. Research work has been carried out on the case of the product “Pura Vida”, of the Gloria Company, implementing a mixed research method (documentary, quan and qual) in which a descriptive collection of data from different sources, in relation to the company and the crisis with Pura Vida milk, has been used; additionally, an ad hoc survey has been conducted on a sample of Peruvian citizens to know their insight in relation to the relevant aspects of business ethics and corporate responsibility and their opinion regarding the specific case being investigated; finally, in-depth interviews were held with the company’s management staff. It is shown that without a certain degree of welfare state, it is difficult to implement ethics and social responsibility in companies and in society as a whole. In addition, the main concerns of Peruvians regarding ethics and social responsibility can be observed.

The Usefulness of Social Norm Theory in Empirical Business Ethics Research: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen D. Blay ◽  
Eric S. Gooden ◽  
Mark J. Mellon ◽  
Douglas E. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ethics Research ◽  
Norm Theory

Business Ethics and Extant Social Contracts

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Dunfee
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Priority Rules ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Social Contracts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethical Norms

Extant social contracts, deriving from communities of individuals, constitute a significant source of ethical norms in business. When found consistent with general ethical theories through the application of a filtering test, these real social contracts generate prima facie duties of compliance on the part of those who expressly or impliedly consent to the terms of the social contract, and also on the part of those who take advantage of the instrumental value of the social contracts. Businesspeople typically participate in multiple communities and, as a consequence, encounter conflicting ethical norms. Priority rules can be devised to resolve such conflicts. The framework of extant social contracts merges normative and theoretical research in business ethics and specifies a domain for empirical studies.

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