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Quantification of Business Ethics

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Comparability of business ethics; Measurable objectification of business ethics; Measurement of business ethics

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Quantification of ethics implies that data input is used for an ethical judgment of a particular organization or in some cases even of individual persons. In the last couple of years, the debate on quantification of business ethics has gained prominence in the academic and practical discourse, given the increased use of key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the ethical performance of organizations. This tendency goes along with an increased use of figures and quantification schemes, providing information on organizational ethical performance or alternative concepts found in business ethics. The implications of these schemes are highly relevant for the current sustainability discourse, as they increasingly determine whether and how much sustainability funds invest in a particular sector or company, as they influence the public perception of an...

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  1. Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Alexander Kriebitz & Raphael Max

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  1. London Metropolitan University, Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law London Metropolitan University, London, UK

    Samuel Idowu

  2. Cologne Business School, Ingolstadt, Germany

    René Schmidpeter

  3. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Nicholas Capaldi

  4. International Training Centre of the IL, International Labor Organization, Turin, Italy

    Liangrong Zu

  5. Department of Economics, Society and Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy

    Mara Del Baldo

  6. Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal

    Rute Abreu

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Economia, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

    Andrea Venturelli

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Kriebitz, A., Max, R. (2021). Quantification of Business Ethics. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_1113-1

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