Processes and Consequences in Business EthicalDilemmas: The Oil Industry and Climate Change

We present a model of rational behavior by which we characterize business ethical dilemmas as trade-offs between processes and consequences. As an illustration, we formulate the oil industry's business ethical dilemma as a trade-off between a socially detrimental process (emitting greenhouse ga...

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Authors: Le Menestrel, Marc (Author) ; de Bettignies, Henri-Claude (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2002
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2002, Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 251-266
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Climate Change
B Rationality
B Kyoto Protocol
B Consequence
B Process
B oil industry
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