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Business ethics has been described as a prime academic growth industry. This paper reports the findings of a survey aimed at establishing the status of ethics in the curricula of Canadian Schools of Management and Administrative Studies. It was found that twenty-three of the forty-two responding schools offer courses in business ethics and that they offer a total of twenty-five ethics courses, twenty of which are offered as electives. Forty-two percent of the schools not offering a course in business ethics plan to offer such a course by 1989. This means that by 1989 seventy-four percent of the responding schools should have a business ethics component in their curricula.
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Jang B. Singh, B. A. (Toronto), M. A. (St. Thomas), M. A. (Toronto), M.B. A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (Toronto), is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Windsor. His research focus is on ethical issues involved in the management process. He also maintains a keen interest in issues related to business in the Third World.
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Singh, J.B. The teaching of ethics in Canadian Schools of Management and Administrative Studies. J Bus Ethics 8, 51–56 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382016