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Business ethics today: A survey

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This essay surveys the state of business ethics in North America. It describes the distinctive features of business ethics as an academic sub-discipline and as a pedagogical topic, and compares and contrasts three rival models of business ethics current among philosophers.

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  1. College of Humanities & Arts, Department of Philosophy, San Jose State University, 95192-0096, San Jose, CA, USA

    William H. Shaw

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William H. Shaw is professor of philosophy and chair of the philosophy department at San Jose State University. Among other writings, he is the author of Business Ethics (Wadsworth 1991) and, with Vincent Barry, of Moral Issues in Business, 6th ed. (Wadsworth 1995).

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Shaw, W.H. Business ethics today: A survey. J Bus Ethics 15, 489–500 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381925

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