The Relevance of Responsibility to Ethical Business Decisions

Journal of Business Ethics 90 (S2):245 - 252 (2009)
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This article reviews the concept of moral responsibility in business ethics and examines the seven previous articles using several types of responsibility in business as the overriding construct to gain a fuller understanding of the ethical impact of these articles. The types of responsibility that are used in this analysis are: legal, corporate, managerial, social, stakeholder, and societal. Observations about how normative ethical principles might also be applied to these articles are also advanced. This article concludes with a call for more conceptual and empirical research into the notion of responsibility in business

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