Why to Talk about Ethical and Responsible Business?

Abstract

"[...] In this essay I will discuss about the topics of ethics and responsibility in business, arguing that this is nothing new and unnatural, not something additional to the business activities, but in important and even decisive integral part of everyday business. For understanding the essence of ethics and responsibility in business I am taking a more holistic view, which combines together the concepts of Corporate Governance (CG), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Ethical Leadership (EL) and follows the Stakeholder approach. Similarly I have used the same concepts in my work about Corporate Moral Development (see Kooskora, 2008), but during the last years I’ve even more convinced that this model can be used for more general discussions about ethics and responsibility in business as well. [...]", p. 2