Thomas Hobbes hat als einer der ersten einen Mechanismus beleuchtet, der das soziale Zusammenleben massgeblich bestimmt: Dilemmastrukturen sind in Interak-tionen allgegenwaertig. Dies gilt auch fuer die Maerkte von heute. Zur UEberwindung von Dilemmastrukturen entscheiden sich immer mehr...

The international business environment, through its cultural and economic diversity, often puts international managers in great difficulty as it generates a large variety of ethical issues. On a short term, finding a solution and respecting the organizational principles of business ethics could...

Nothing is eternal, except changes. This statement characterizes the contemporary world, as succinctly and correctly as possible. The field of economic affairs, strongly marked by the effects of the economic globalization process development, by the manifestation of the knowledge-based economy...

The aim of this paper work is to conclude a short confirmation for business ethics. A redundant argument for business ethics, should, in our opinion start from the philosophical field. A major problem with business ethics is the foreclosing of philosophy, society and politics from its debate...

Results of a survey of 3,225 MBA graduates from 75 schools located in the United States are analyzed to determine (a) how and how effectively ethics is incorporated in the graduate business curriculum, (b) how graduates assessed the corporate scandals that occurred prior to the study,; and (c)...

Ethics is a relevant value in business and management consulting. The presence of recognized ethics tends to reduce the need for informative or legal-contractual precautions in the formalization of relationships, for both of the parts involved in a negotiation. Management Consulting on ethics...

In today’s business world it is essential that managers/employees engage in ethical thinking and behavior in making the decisions that are part-and-parcel of operating a successful business. Therefore, it would benefit businesses to understand, as much as possible, the various...

This article identifies an integrated teaching strategy that was originally developed for engineers, the so-called ‘micro-insertion’ approach, as a practical and effective means to teach ethics at business schools. It is argued that instructors can incorporate not only generic or thematic...

In the Chinese stock market, controlling shareholders often use inter-corporate loans to expropriate a great amount of cash from listed firms, through a process called “tunneling.” Using a sample of 10,170 firm-year observations from the Chinese stock market for the period of 2001–2010, I...