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There is no single Chinese approach to business ethics. Even this nomenclature is somewhat problematic, for it includes both what non-Chinese have written about the practice of business within China and what Chinese authors themselves have argued concerning business in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China and among ethnic Chinese. This entry briefly identifies topics that have received significant attention in English-language journals from both of these groups and then discusses some of the approaches that have been adopted by thinkers in their analyses of business as it is practiced in these locations.
Key Topics in the Chinese Context
Key topics in the Chinese context include corruption, the government-corporation nexus, creation of a middle class, environmental pollution, intellectual property, and guanxi.Corporations and the government have historically been intertwined. The Chinese army has...
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Koehn, D. (2018). Chinese Approach to 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_348-1
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