Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

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Teaching business ethics and corporate social responsibility can enliven teaching and learning in business studies by opening up some of the core ideas of business activity to critical scrutiny. Implicit in this is the need for business studies as a subject to examine important contemporary issues and move on from an approach rooted in social, economic and cultural changes that took place in the 1980s and 1990s. This article explores these issues and concludes with some teaching suggestions. The recent spate of film-based documentaries which focus on issues of corporate social responsibility create exciting opportunities for classroom-based work.

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Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Ten years ago, in a previous article for this journal (Hall and Raffo, 1997), I highlighted the looming dangersof the business studies curriculum becoming cast adrift from broader social science thinking and consequently lacking that critical edge so necessary for serious examination of business. In the intervening period a number of developments ...

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