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date: 18 March 2025

business ethics. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Author(s):
Richard T. De GeorgeRichard T. De George

One of the areas of applied ethics. Although the application of morality to business is as old as business and morality themselves, the rise of business ethics as an identifiable subject of study took place in the 1970s in the United States, and since the late 1980s in Europe, Australia, and a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and South America.... ...

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