Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum, Volume III

CHAPTER 3

Doing Good Is Good Business: Embedding Ethics in Teaching Entrepreneurship and Business Venturing

Henrietta Onwuegbuzie and Ijeoma Ugwuanyi

Lagos Business School

Introduction

Ethics has become an important subject of discussion in business schools and in the area of management generally,¹ perhaps because it is a central virtue in management.² There are ethical implications for every aspect of management and these pose serious challenges for management practitioners and educators.

Entrepreneurship is an area of management that has increasingly been studied as an important catalyst of the economy and the society. However, not enough attention has been paid to the ethical and moral perspective of entrepreneurship.³ The ethical challenges ...