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Stakeholder-Sensitive Business Ethics Teaching

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Teaching Business Ethics

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Well-established, well-intended and well-designed business ethics teaching can still have little effect. This is not surprising, as long as business ethics does not undertake a business-school-wide dialogue about goals and obstacles, not least as an example of stakeholder participation. The article elaborates such views in a systematic fashion and formulates a list of thirteen premises and nine recommendations in thesis format.

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  1. Norwegian School of Management BI, P.O. box 4676 Sofienberg, N0506, Oslo, Norway

    Johannes Brinkmann

  2. Graduate School of Business, The College of William and Mary, P.O. box 8795, Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795

    Ronald R. Sims

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Brinkmann, J., Sims, R.R. Stakeholder-Sensitive Business Ethics Teaching. Teaching Business Ethics 5, 171–193 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011461418842

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