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remembered that slavery was legal until the mid-nineteenth century and racism and discrimination were likewise legal until the mid...
where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...
in the past. Andersens crime (and it is a crime) was obstruction of justice, when it came to shredding the Enron documents. If you...
note that amid growing danger signs, "Merck fought a rearguard action for 4 1/2 years, clinging to a hope that somehow Vioxxs safe...
want to see a larger bottom line, its impossible to do it the "normal" way, so the best way to do it is to slash costs (generally ...
roughly 12 percent of the displaced employees a change at relocation within the company. Forty percent would be hired by the new b...
to pressure they undertook to dispose the oil rig on land, which they knew and was later proved to be both more costly and more da...
faced at that time was whether to tell a lie or to hurt the givers feelings. Either way, it appeared that we would be violating a...
more than embarrassing for Enron, WorldCom and the rest: they cost Americans more than three million jobs (Turk, 2003). It is at...
being responsible for the growing number of deaths and injury resulting from the failures, whatever their cause. The pattern that...
the issue with Synertex isnt few versus many, but rather, butterflies versus man. Expected Utility dictates that the butterflies a...
actually benefited society. This is no longer true. in todays society, corporations use these and other precepts to pass on their ...
thing to do, either. When the truth came out, the stock slid quickly, bankrupting employees and investors almost overnight. ...
in it (especially on the Internet). The problem is, however, that "privacy" is one of those concepts that is difficult to ...
typically has new technology and business practices to offer whereas the domestic company contributes because of their already est...
which would violate the dormant Commerce Clause (2001). In the case at hand, the state of Alabama is prohibiting a right that al...
of philosophy dealing with right and wrong and the morality of motives and ends" (Shaughnessy, 2002, p. 20). But questions of ethi...
when it comes to the corporate world. Not to follow this path would reap severe consequences upon the business that ignored the i...
those who were relying on the company for pensions, directly or indirectly, those who worked for them, and those who worked for co...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
It appears that Carr has not even a speaking acquaintance with the concepts of integrity and trust. Neither does he effectively s...
taken many forms, some of them less than attractive. As we moved later into the twentieth century the business language may have ...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
In five pages this paper explores the business community of Russia in a consideration of such topics as ethics, resources, and div...
billions of dollars below expectations, the bottom fell out. The stock was dumped, and it lost value. The stock has lost 99 percen...
still being disingenuous. He is not fulfilling his obligation as a lawyer to be honest, nor is he following the law. Whether or no...
trouble the environment has been in for a long time directly because big business. Decades and decades of misuse, exploitation an...
practical science that help guide behaviour (Laudon, 1995). This may appear very detached from information technology, ho...
do unwittingly (Nickerson, 1999). There is a simple reason for this result. As individuals produce goods in order to gain a profit...
of competency. McDonalds Corporation has found that in expanding to other countries not all relationships are dealt with in the s...