| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 哲學系研究所 === 104 === Abstract
While the majority believes that the essence of business activity is to
make profits, some consider ethics in business behavior should be the
fundamental base of business so as to eliminate the moral hazard of business
transactions. As a result, the recent attempt to accommodate profit-based
business and ethics-based business into Business Ethics, to the critiques of
both sides, can be nothing but an Oxymoron!
This research will first conduct the research review regarding the recent
works of business ethics, focusing not only on the theoretical attempts of
economists, ethicists as well, who, against all odds, argue that business ethics
is not a contradictory term; instead, it is a consistent and coherent system; but
also on the practical applications of business ethics in tackling the problems of
the business reality, such as food safety, business fraud, to name just a few.
The main thesis of this work is to provide an alternative to the current
works of business ethics. I proposea compromise approachwhich allows
business activities to accommodate both profit-based and ethical-based
conditions while continuing making profits and to avoid the fact that business
ethics must be ignored out of committing a paradox fallacy.
Given that it is paradoxical to equally emphasize both profit and ethics in
business as exercised by business ethicists, the alternative way out of the
paradox of business ethics, as I conclude, is to base moral conducts upon
profit-based business activities against which the theory of business ethics
could become more feasible on the one hand, and the practice of business
transactions should be morally regulated on the other hand.
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