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The criminal conviction of Amway Corporation for evasion of Canadian customs duties not only belies the high ethical profession of its president, Richard DeVos, but his reissuing of the book which makes this profession, without mentioning the conviction, supports the view that ultimately ethics and business are pulling in opposite directions.
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Colin Grant is Professor of Religious Studies at Mount Allison University, Sackville, N. B. He teaches “The Ethics and Ethos of Business” and has published articles in Liberal Arts and Religious Studies Periodicals.
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Grant, C. Giving ethics the business. J Bus Ethics 7, 489–495 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382595
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382595