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The Journal of Business Ethics was founded in 1982 by philosophers Alex C. Michalos and Deborah C. Poff who served as its esteemed editors for decades and established it as the finest and most long-standing journal in the general field of business ethics. The contents of this journal helped to shape the field of business ethics until this very day.
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Amartya Sen refers to these rights as “laws in waiting” (Sen 2009).
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Several articles authored by the world’s leading philosopher-experts on the topic of moral responsibility are published in The Journal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review (Springer).
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It is also referred to as the “adverse publicity sanction” in Corlett (2014: Chap. 11).
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Corlett, J.A. (2018). Role of Philosophy in Business Ethics. In: Poff, D., Michalos, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_20-1
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