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Global Ethics: A Potentially Integrative Paradigm of Sustainable Development for the New Economy

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This chapter aims to offer scholars and practitioners critical arguments on the global ethics as a potentially integrative paradigm of sustainable development for the new economy. The research provides a conceptual and philosophical critical analysis of the new sustainable economy and global ethics and concludes that global ethics is the new conceptual integrative framework for shaping strategies, actions, and analysis. This new conceptual framework has some practical implications allowing researchers, entrepreneurs, and managers to improve the sustainable business perspective. The originality of the chapter proposes a new integrative paradigm of sustainable development for the new economy defined by appropriate and more precise concepts for reasoning in its management with success. The first step to build a global ethics is to communicate the fundamentals in an intelligible and conscious manner at large scale, at multilevel from individual to community, and then to share the perspectives, adopt them, and action accordingly.

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  1. National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania

    Adriana Grigorescu

  2. National Scientific Research Institute for Labor and Social Protection, Bucharest, Romania

    Cristina Lincaru

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  3. Business Administration, Petroleum & Gas University of Ploieşti, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania

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Grigorescu, A., Lincaru, C. (2023). Global Ethics: A Potentially Integrative Paradigm of Sustainable Development for the New Economy. In: Chivu, L., De Los Ríos Carmenado, I., Andrei, J.V. (eds) Crisis after the Crisis: Economic Development in the New Normal . ESPERA 2021. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30996-0_23

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