IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-4039-8462-3_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Business Ethics in China: A Systemic Perspective

In: Developing Business Ethics in China

Author

Listed:
  • Jane Collier

Abstract

In The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics we read that “business ethics is the study of business action—individual or corporate—with special attention to its moral adequacy” (Werhane and Freeman 1997, 51). In that same publication we read that “business ethics in China rest upon a … heritage that emphasises personal virtue and … right ordering of personal relationships in social organization” (ibid., 72). In their focus on persons and organizations as units of analysis, these approaches regard the context of business activity as “given.” For instance, market universalism, methodological individualism, and the primacy of technology are simply taken for granted. A further set of presuppositions relate to the wider institutional context of business defined by such attributes as private property and ownership rights, open and competitive market structures and stability of contractual arrangements, as well as supportive regulatory and financial frameworks.

Suggested Citation

  • Jane Collier, 2006. "Business Ethics in China: A Systemic Perspective," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Xiaohe Lu & Georges Enderle (ed.), Developing Business Ethics in China, chapter 0, pages 78-89, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-8462-3_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403984623_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-8462-3_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.