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Business Ethics as Field of Training, Teaching, and Research in East Asia

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While Economic and Business Ethics has already attracted increasing attention in East Asia, a comprehensive survey of Economic and Business Ethics has never been done in this region. This study investigates the current status of Economic and Business Ethics as field of teaching, training and research in the East Asia region, particularly in China, Japan, and Korea. Based on multiple approaches that include questionnaire surveys, desktop analysis, and personal observation, this article reports on the current state of training, teaching, and research in the field of Economic and Business Ethics in the three countries. It also discusses similarities and differences with regard to these themes among the countries studied.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are deeply grateful to Yu Cai, Jieming Liu, Yuan Liu, Wen Qian of the China research team, as well as Masahide Ohno, Takayuki Tanaka, Kanae Teramoto, Toru Umeda, Riu Yokota of the Japan team, Randy Chiu, Rico Lam, and Jon Moon, for their contributions to this article.

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  1. Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 535 Fahua Zhen Road, Shanghai, 200052, People’s Republic of China

    Zucheng Zhou

  2. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Reitaku University, 2-1-1, Hikarigaoka, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba-ken, 277-8686, Japan

    Chiaki Nakano

  3. School of Management, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, 2032, Australia

    Ben Nanfeng Luo

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Zhou, Z., Nakano, C. & Luo, B.N. Business Ethics as Field of Training, Teaching, and Research in East Asia. J Bus Ethics 104 (Suppl 1), 19–27 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1259-9

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