Ethics and Social Responsibility

Ethics and Social Responsibility

“Benefits can be as malleable as putty when a charlatan who runs the company that says”.

Warren Buffett

Introduction

The business world has always posed ethical problems: corruption, product quality defects, breach of the contract are facts of life as we know it forever, and this has justified that develops a reflection on business ethics. This reflection, however, took twenty or thirty years a new turn. Companies that do not care about these issues have developed ethical codes and established departments specializing in so-called corporate social responsibility (Solomon, 2004). If ethics sets out the principles that define ...