Abstract
Much of the current business ethics literature takes corporations and social responsibility as its key operative concepts. Meanwhile, much of the business and economics literature is moving to seeing entrepreneurship as a foundational activity. In this chapter I argue that business ethics should be refocused away from corporations and the social and toward entrepreneurs and the individual.
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Hicks, S. (2013). Entrepreneurship and Ethics. In: Luetge, C. (eds) Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1494-6_43
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