tt,,t') Can Business Ethics Really Exist? (...,1, m David Preston East London Business School Universi~ of East London, U.tC d.preston@uel.ac.uk ILl hen I tell my friends or colleagues that my research area is professional and business ethics their almost uniform reaction is, "But there aren't any." I smile mysteriously as if I know something they don't but in truth their responses unsettle me. I have a read a wealth of literature, of varying degrees of quality, listing the benefits of codes of conduct, describing systems for ensuring distributive justice in organisations, weighing up the competing claims of deontological and utilitarian approaches to the subject and any number of fine-tuning issues in business ethics. My own experiences in business lead me to feel some discomfort with much of what I read because it somehow didn't seem to address the real concerns of anyone having to make their way in working life. However, it hadn't occurred to me that the whole subject may not refer to anything that actually exists in the real world. These people denying the existence of ethics in business are not rampant capitalists bent on profit at any cost; neither are they cynical from spending too
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Can business ethics really exist?
Preston, David
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, Volume 27 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Mar 1, 1997
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