RT Article
T1 Ethical Challenge to Businesses: The Deeper Meaning
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 30
IS 2
SP 197
OP 210
A1 Sudhir, V.
A1 Murthy, P. N.
A2 Murthy, P. N.
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785615580
AB Today, ethics has become an important dimension for businesses. Broadly, there are two lines of thought on this issue. The first one suggests that ethical issues have to be resolved through development of appropriate ethical standards at personal or organizational level. The second one emphasizes the process of developing ethical standards rather than the standards themselves. This paper argues that the latter line of thought, when taken forward, implies that ethical dimension is essentially challenging businesses to transform themselves and their people at a very fundamental level in order to evolve continuously to higher levels of perfection. The deeper significance is that in future, businesses will play a dominant role in bringing forth the human spirit, an aspect that is hitherto perceived to be in the purview of other human activity systems like the Church or family. This restructuring at the societal level is probably the most fundamental message of this age of growing interdependence.
K1 Dominant Role
K1 Activity System
K1 Ethical Issue
K1 Human Activity
K1 Economic Growth
DO 10.1023/A:1006453602518