基于中国传统文化的商业伦理困境破解策略研究

在当前市场经济的浪潮中,社会上不断出现诸如"断轴门"、"速生鸡"等违背商业伦理的事件,这些事件严重损害了消费者的权益,但事件本身却对这些商业主体没有造成实质性的影响,商业伦理出现了困境。本文首先对商业伦理困境及其产生的原因进行了分析,并在研究我国传统文化的基础上探讨了中国传统文化与商业伦理困境的关系,提出了基于中国传统文化的商业伦理困境破解策略,以期能解决当前存在的商业伦理困境难题。     

儒家文化与商业伦理构建

过度商业化导致众多恶性事故的发生,影响社会的健康发展,重塑中国商业伦理已成为一项十分重要的工作。而商业伦理可以看作是伦理学的在商业领域上的延伸,故此,重塑中国商业伦理必须充分重视儒家文化在商业伦理重塑中的作用,以儒家文化为突破口。本文从中国商业历史及现在商业实践两个方面论证了中国商业伦理构建必须以儒家文化为基础,完全照搬西方商业伦理模式是行不通的。     

大学生消费伦理观问题探究

大学生作为特殊的群体,消费伦理观有着自己独特的表现。本文从大学生消费伦理观偏失的角度出发,正确地把握住新形势下大学生消费伦理存在的问题,并深刻剖析偏失的原因,在此基础上探究具有现实意义的方法,从而帮助大学生形成正确、科学的消费伦理观。     

中西商业文化的神突与沟通

中国和西方国家是主要经济合作和贸易伙伴，但在商业文化的价值取向方面存在明显差异并由此产生各种冲突。中西商业文化的冲突有三个层次，即生活习惯，思维方式和价值取向。通过分析和比较，揭示出中西不同价值取向的文化根源，指出了进行有效沟通的途径和方法。     

中西商业文化的冲突与沟通

中国和西方国家是主要经济合作和贸易伙伴,但在商业文化的价值取向方面存在明显差异并由此产生各种冲突。中西商业文化的冲突有三个层次,即生活习惯,思维方式和价值取向。通过分析和比较,揭示出中西不同价值取向的文化根源,指出了进行有效沟通的途径和方法。     

先进文化视野下的伦理观解读

探讨先进文化视野下的伦理观问题有着现实意义。当前伦理观出现三大转型：传统与现代变换中对道德本体论的超越；经济与伦理问题中对义利观的再认；私与公理解中对公共空间的关注。江泽民的先进文化观正是在这样的背景下成为当代中国伦理建设的指南，先进文化的定住明确了主流伦理价值的方向；先进性与广泛性思想体现了道德理想性与现实性的统一；法治与德治思想体现了工具理性与价值理性的统一；人的全面发展与全民素质提高体现了私德与公德的统一；民族性与国际性、未来性思想体现了保护民族传统与融入全球化的统一。     

浅谈企业建立正确的商业伦理道德的重要性

企业拥有正确的商业伦理道德观对于企业来说是非常重要的,拥有正确的商业伦理道德观是企业长久发展的重要根基,拥有良好的道德观和伦理观也是企业本身一种责任的体现,可以帮助树立企业正面的社会形象,为企业的长久发展起到了重要的作用。文章就来浅谈一下企业商业伦理道德观的重要性及其如何建立正确的商业伦理道德观。     

浅析消费文化对商业伦理研究的意义

消费文化贯穿于消费的全过程,对于企业竞争力的提升和宏观经济的发展都会产生影响。随着我国消费者可支配收入的增长和生活方式的变革,企业在商业伦理方面的表现,有可能成为影响消费的重要因素,而商业伦理与文化有着千丝万缕的联系。因此,消费文化对于商业伦理研究中所涉及的消费认同、消费的符号诠释,以及扩展商业伦理本身的研究范式等方面,具有一定的意义。     

胡适的宗教与民族思想探析

作为中国20世纪中期最其影响力的思想家之一,胡适的思想已经与中华民族文化紧紧地连在一起,成为中华民族文化中不可或缺的一部分.作为其思想理论和学术研究的重要组成部分--宗教观念与民族思想,在我国文化思想界产生了极大影响.在宗教方面他是个典型的无神论者,并借助该思想对东西方宗教进行了严厉批判,同时,其又将西方的自然科学理论与中国当时的具体实际相结合,提出了具有社会化意义的"宗教观";在民族思想方面胡适摒弃了传统落后的民族意识,主张言论自由、民主独立、思想解放等.他的这些思想在现代对于研究宗教与民族问题有着重要的指导意义.     

当代大学生消费伦理观的探究

本文从对消费、消费伦理及消费伦理观等概念及基本理论的界定出发,结合当代大学生消费伦理观的现实状况,分析其消费观的偏失;从多角度探寻大学生消费伦理观偏失的主要原因,运用伦理学基本理论对大学生树立正确的消费伦理观进行归因;并试图提出合乎实践的、具有可行性的大学生应树立的正确的消费伦理观。对目前高校学生消费伦理观的建设具有一定理论意义。     

Ethics in Business: Answering the Call

What might happen if business leaders across the globe viewed their work as a sacred calling in a religious sense? Might not the world be a far better place? This paper is an effort to stimulate debate and discussion on this topic. Concepts addressed include: (a) ethics in business, (b) ethical standards in business settings, (c) the role of law, (d) levels of corporate responsibility, (e) the role of religion in business ethics, (f) the idea of business as a calling in a religious sense, (g) the elements of modern corporate culture, (h) creating an ethical corporate culture, (i) demonstrating corporate social responsibility, and (j) providing servant leadership. The introduction to the paper shows how these concepts interrelate; its conclusion offers a challenge to business leaders to answer their call to business in the truest sense.     

Religious Intensity,Evangelical Christianity,and Business Ethics: An Empirical Study

Research on the relationship between religious commitment and business ethics has produced widely varying results and made the impact of such commitment unclear. This study presents an empirical investigation based on a questionnaire survey of business managers and professionals in the United States yielding a database of 1234 respondents. Respondents evaluated the ethical acceptability of 16 business decisions. Findings varied with the way in which the religion variable was measured. Little relationship between religious commitment and ethical judgment was found when responses were compared on the basis of broad faith categories – Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, other religions, and no religion. However, respondents who indicated that religious interests were of high or moderate importance to them demonstrated a higher level of ethical judgment (less accepting of unethical decisions) than others in their evaluations. Evangelical Christians also showed a higher level of ethical judgment.     

In Search of Instruments. Business and Ethics Halfway

Business ethics has gradually acquired a stable status, both as an academic discipline and as a practice. Stakeholdership is recognised as a guiding concept, business has widely accepted that it has a license to operate to win from society at large, and operational instruments such as codes of ethics and forms of ethical auditing and accounting take shape more and more. Yet lacunae remain. Three are mentioned explicitly. Business ethics has to improve its relations with business law, the concept of competition deserves much more ethical attention than it has received up to now, and the shifting relations between the market, governmental agencies and civil society require the elaboration of an institutional business ethics.     

Antecedents and Consequences of Perceived Importance of Ethics in Marketing Situations: A Study of Thai Businesspeople

Building on an existing framework concerning ethical intention, this research explores how Thai business people perceive the importance of ethics in various scenarios. This study investigates the relative influences of personal characteristics and the organizational environment underlying the Thai business people’s ethical perception. Corporate ethical values and idealism are shown to positively influence a Thai manager’s perceptions about the importance of ethics. While their ability to perceive the existence of an ethical problem is negatively influenced by relativism, it is positively impacted by their existing perceptions about the importance of ethics. Results also suggest positive relationships between perceived importance of ethics and perceived ethical problems with ethical intention. These results extend research in understanding the relationship between the antecedents and consequences of perceived importance of ethics within an economically growing non-Western culture.     

Bridging Ethics and Self Leadership: Overcoming Ethical Discrepancies Between Employee and Organizational Standards

In spite of extensive study and efforts to improve business ethics and increase corporate social responsibility, a quick review of almost any business publication will show that breaches of ethics are a common occurrence in the business community. In this paper we explore reasons for potential discrepancies or gaps between organizational and individual ethical standards, the consequences of such discrepancies, and possible methods of reducing the detrimental effects of these differences. The concept of self-leadership, as constructed through social learning theory is examined, and shown to be a potentially valuable tool for employees' use in making reasoned decisions in varying organizational ethical climates. Specifically, the authors will show how the practice of self-leadership can be employed as an important means to improve moral action within the firm.     

Exposure to Ethics Education and the Perception of Linkage between Organizational Ethical Behavior and Business Outcomes

This study focused on the effects of individual characteristics and exposure to ethics education on perceptions of the linkage between organizational ethical practices and business outcomes. Using a stratified sampling approach, 817 students were randomly selected from a population of approximately 1310 business students in an AACSB accredited college of business. Three hundred and twenty eight of the subjects were freshmen, 380 were seniors, and 109 were working managers and professionals enrolled in a night-time MBA program. Overall, the respondents included 438 male students and 379 female students. Exposure to ethics in the curriculum had a significant impact on student perceptions of what should be the ideal linkages between organizational ethical practices and business outcomes. Gender based differences were found with female students having a higher expectation regarding what should be the “ethics practices and business outcomes” link. Exposure to ethics in the curriculum had a positive moderating influence on the gender-based effects on perceptions of ideal ethical climate. The interaction effect showed that exposure to ethical education may have a positive impact on males and allow them to catch up with females in their ethical sensitivities concerning the ideal linkage between organizational ethical behavior and business outcomes. Further, consistent with the literature, the study found that gender differences in ethical attitudes regarding the ideal ethical climate, while significant for undergraduates, appeared to narrow considerably for the working professionals who were part-time MBA students. Harsh Luthar is an Associate Professor of Management at Bryant University. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic University, Pamplin College of Business, in the Department of Management. His research interests include international differences and cross-cultural issues impacting global human resource practices, ethical attitudes of students, and the nature of spiritual leadership. Ranjan Karri is an Assistant Professor of Management at Bryant University. He received his Ph.D. in strategic management from Washington State University. His research interests include corporate and business strategies, enterpreneurship, ethical leadership and corporate governance.     

Contents of Codes of Ethics of Professional Business Organizations in the United States

This paper reports an analysis of the content of the codes of ethics of 15 professional business organizations in the United States, representing the broad range of disciplines found in business. The analysis was conducted to identify common ethical issues faced by business professionals. It was also structured to highlight ethical issues that are either unique to or of particular importance for business professionals. No attempt is made to make value judgments about either the codes of ethics studied or of their content. General ethical values identified include honesty and integrity, general legal compliance, discreditable or harmful acts, and obligations related to social values. More business-specific issues include confidentiality, responsibilities to employers/clients, obligations to the profession, independence and objectivity, and business-specific legal and technical compliance issues.     

新儒商的商业伦理观及其管理模式

在构建和谐社会的环境下,越来越多的企业家和学者认识到传统的企业管理模式已经受到了当今社会环境的制约,企业管理应建立以新儒商文化为基础的商业伦理观与经营观之上。本文从管理理念与模式的角度分析了新儒商的伦理价值及其经营观,提出了"新儒商管理模式",旨在为构建和谐企业提供理论依据。     

Confucian Business Ethics and the Economy

Confucian ethics as applied to the study of business ethics often relate to the micro consideration of personal ethics and the character of a virtuous person. Actually, Confucius and his school have much to say about the morals of the public administration and the market institutions in a more macro level. While Weber emphasizes the role of culture on the development of the economy, and Marx the determining influence of the material base on ideology, we see an interaction between culture – specifically Confucian business ethics – and the economy. In this paper, we are going to study this interaction in several crucial stages of development of Confucianism. The paper concludes by postulating the relevance of Confucian business ethics to the global knowledge economy.     

Ethical Commitment,Financial Performance,and Valuation: An Empirical Investigation of Korean Companies

A variety of stakeholders including investors, corporate managers, customers, suppliers, employees, researchers, and government policy makers have long been interested in the relationship between the financial performance of a corporation and its commitment to business ethics. As a subject of research, the relations between business ethics and corporate valuation has yet to be thoroughly quantified and investigated. This article is an effort to amend this inadequacy by demonstrating a statistically significant association between ethical commitment and corporate valuation measures. Consistent with anecdotal evidence, we have found a significant association between the ethical commitment of Korean companies and their valuation on the Korean stock market. However, the result reveals that the association between ethical commitment and financial performance is not significantly supported. Tae Hee Choi received Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, Ohio, USA. Presently working as Assistant Professor in accounting at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management. Research interests are business ethics, capital market, financial accounting, managerial accounting, and valuation. Jinchul Jung received Ph.D. from Kent State University, Ohio, USA. Presently working as Assistant Professor of Business Administration Department in the College of Business at Chosun University. Research interests are business ethics, family-supportive program, and organizational commitment.