Abstract
Nine issues of fundamental importance for business ethics are examined with a view to encouraging researchers in the field to direct their attention to them in the 1990s and beyond. The issues are related to organized labour, social dumping, international finance and Third World debt, tobacco promotion, arms trade, wealth concentration and taxation, pollution and resource depletion, international trading blocks, and the Canadian Business Council on National Issues and other business organizations.
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Michalos, A.C. Issues for Business Ethics in the Nineties and Beyond. Journal of Business Ethics 16, 219–230 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017926723225
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