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Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop: Introduction

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  • Ian W. Jones
  • Michael G. Pollitt

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Corporate governance, executive pay, the use of child labour and control of industrial pollution are all examples of business ethics issues that today’s companies must face. Such issues surface increasingly commonly in the running of companies, and managers and directors find them impossible to ignore. Indeed, there are many examples of companies becoming negatively associated with such issues: Robert Maxwell’s Maxwell Communications Corporation (corporate governance),1 British Gas (executive pay),2 Nike (child labour)3 and Union Carbide (industrial pollution).4 However, while the issues themselves invite huge amounts of comment about how to deal with them, the process by which the issue develops over time is a much less discussed area. A key to being a sustainable company is the development of a capacity to understand and predict how such issues develop over time.

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  • Ian W. Jones & Michael G. Pollitt, 2002. "Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop: Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ian W. Jones & Michael G. Pollitt (ed.), Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop, chapter 1, pages 1-13, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51103-3_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230511033_1
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    1. Ian W. Jones & Michael G. Pollitt, 2016. "How UK Banks are Changing Their Corporate Culture & Practice Following the Financial Crisis of 2007-08," Working Papers wp482, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.

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