Ethics in Business and Society Chinese and Western Perspectives
faces the urgent problem of determining what political and social conditions must be preserved in order to ensure a continu. ing thriving economy. "2 And the ethicist, we may add, can draw on all of those problems and quite a few more characteristic of si
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Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy
P. Koslowski (Ed.) Ethics in Economics, Business, and Economic Policy (out of print) 192 pages. 1992 P. Koslowski· Y. Shionoya (Eds.) The Good and the Economical Ethical Choices in Economics and Management 212 pages. 1993 H. De Geer (Ed.) Business Ethics in Progress? 124 pages. 1994 P. Koslowski (Ed.) The Theory of Ethical Economy in the Historical School 345 pages. 1995 A. Argandona (Ed.) The Ethical Dimension of Financial Institutions and Markets 264 pages. 1995
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Ethics in Business andSociety Chinese and Western Perspectives With 1 Figure and 9 Tables
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Professor Dr. Gerhold K. Becker Hong Kong Baptist University Centre for Applied Ethics Kowloon Tong Hong Kong E-mail: [email protected]
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Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheltsaufnahme Ethics In business and society: Chinese and western perspectives; with 9 tables / Gerhold K. Becker (cd.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg; New York; Barcelona; Budapest; Hong Kong; London; Milan; Paris; Tokyo: Springer. 1996 (Studies in economic ethics and philosophy)
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Acknowledgment The essays in this volume represent investigations into contemporary ethical issues in the cross-cultural setting of Hong Kong; most of them grew out of papers delivered in a lecture series organised by the Centre for Applied Ethics in Hong Kong. The strong support of all colleagues who contributed to this collection of essays and the financial assistance of the Centre toward
