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Business Ethics: National and International Dimensions of Social Responsibility

In: Environment, Ethics and the Corporation

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  • Grant Ledgerwood
  • Arlene Idol Broadhurst

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Corporate ethics did not, like Medusa, spring fully-grown from the head of Zeus, but rather evolved from general philosophical and theo- logical inquiries over several centuries of human thought, Eastern and Western, Northern and Southern. As individual societies developed economic, social and religious systems, a sense of right and wrong emerged within each of those societies, expressed through a multiplicity of approaches and value perspectives. That multiplicity is largely, although not entirely, explained by contextual origins, time lags and isolated development of ideas. It may also be explained by fundamental disagreement over value priorities. Suggesting that a fundamental dis- agreement over the definition of what is right and wrong, however, raises the central question of cultural relativity and whether or not a genuinely universal or global code of ethics is possible.

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  • Grant Ledgerwood & Arlene Idol Broadhurst, 2000. "Business Ethics: National and International Dimensions of Social Responsibility," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Environment, Ethics and the Corporation, chapter 10, pages 209-234, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-98163-4_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333981634_11
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