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Business ethics elicited comment throughout history. Wherever people interacted via trade and commerce, there was discussion and disagreement over what constitutes ethical behavior. The Enron scandal took down Arthur Andersen, an accounting firm long renowned for its integrity. The unethical Enron officials relied upon misleading accounting practices and cozy relations with prominent politicians and regulators. The perpetual race between fraudsters and enforcers continued into the new millennium. Pathways to corruption are certain to be repeated by future unethical businesspeople.
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Surdam, D.G. (2020). Twenty-First-Century Situations. In: Business Ethics from the 19th Century to Today. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37169-2_13
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