Ethical dimension of doing business in transitional processes

• Main Author: Minić Vera
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade 2004-01-01
• Series: Sociološki Pregled
• Subjects: business ethics; society conditions; system of values; moral
• Online Access: http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2004/0085-63200402101M.pdf

Insufficient ethical component of doing business is one of the problems which transitional countries are being faced with. This is not only a characteristic feature of these countries, but taking our country into consideration, this is liable to be described as an ethical crisis. Numerous examples can confirm this statement and these can be encountered in many domestic companies, institutions and individuals, and also many warnings from abroad. At the level of the state, i.e. the global society, a way of doing business gets appropriate characteristics, and also recommendations whether business in international relations in this environment should be done or not. An analysis of some of the key parameters of ethical crisis in business leads to the fact that they are the result of inherited and present social conditions and relations.