Modern Business Ethics

Author: Jiang Xuelian
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: In the period of China's transition to a market economy, the ethical disorder or loss of control in the commercial exchange field deeply stimulates people's nerves; rent-seeking and other group corruption behaviors wildly devour the property of the state and the people, with power and money transactions even reaching a state of mutual dependence with the black economy; the forces of vicious competition such as industry monopolies and local protectionism, through trade barriers or commercial monopolies, exploit the interests of the lower classes, continuously expanding and causing the distortion of the socio-economic structure, shrinkage of consumption, and sluggish domestic demand; the crisis of commercial credit has become widespread, interacting with the credit crises in political, scientific research, cultural, and educational fields, resulting in massive costs of exchange and circulation becoming a major bottleneck restricting socio-economic development. Against the backdrop of economic transformation, this book redefines the essence of business ethics, systematically and deeply explores the historical development of business ethics, the relationship between a market economy and business ethics, ethical issues in China's commercial field, the construction of business ethics norms, the selection, evaluation, cultivation, and development of business ethics, aiming to provide a valuable reference for the ethical value basis needed for the institutional setup of China's modern economic and social development.