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Vocational ethics and vocational moral socialization are important for the business ethical climate in a given country and in a given industry, but have not received attention in the literature. Our article suggests vocational ethics as a legitimate sub-specialty for business ethics research and development. The article addresses the exposure of vocational students to a combination of vocational school-based and workplace-based socialization, and outlines an agenda for teaching-oriented research and research-based teaching. More specifically, we first draft a conceptual frame of reference and then report results and experiences from a scenario-based pilot study at one of the biggest vocational schools in the country. As a third step such a preliminary situation analysis inspires a number of suggestions for how one could start with developing this field, practically, empirically and theoretically.
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Brinkmann, J., Henriksen, AM. Vocational Ethics as a Subspecialty of Business Ethics – Structuring a Research and Teaching Field. J Bus Ethics 81, 623–634 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9536-8
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