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In the pluralistic world of business, the creation and use of professional standards of practice is a common approach to addressing ethics.

The technique Balanced Experiential Inquiry originally appeared in Sekerka and Godwin (2010).

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Sekerka, L. (2016). Ethics Education and Training. In: Ethics is a Daily Deal. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18090-8_11

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