Business Ethics Scholars

Question 1

Friedman

Answer 1

• argued that the only responsibility businesses have is to increase their profits
• “Businessmen who tap in this way are unwitting puppets for the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society these past decades

Question 2

Bowie

Answer 2

-Thinks that unjustified whistleblowing is wrong

“it violates a prima facie dutie of loyalty to ones employer”

Question 3

Andrew Crane

Answer 3

• Argues for Utilitarianism to be applied to business ethics

- “Ultimately Utilitarianism comes close to what we know as a cost benefit analysis”

Question 4

Archie Carroll

Answer 4

CSR is a business being economically profitable, law abiding, ethically and socially supportive

Question 5

John Elkington

Answer 5

companies have a triple bottom line- to people, planet and profit.

Question 6

Stephen Cohen

Answer 6

Ethics is good in it’s own end- being only good for business undermines the importance for it.