10 Ethical capitalism

Andrew Barry

The world of global business is marked by a remarkable and growing concern with ethics. This is an era when notions of corporate social responsibility, ethical audit, ethical consumption, and environmental sustainability have become commonplace. Global corporations are now expected to be ethical and expect themselves to be ethical. Moreover, many go to great lengths to make their ethical concerns public and open to a limited degree of scrutiny. Ethical behaviour is promoted through ethical brands, and inspected through ethical audit. At the same time, corporations are frequently criticized because the effects of their activities on the environment, their involvement in corruption, the greed of their ...

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