Doing good and doing business at the bottom of the pyramid

There is an ongoing debate among scholars regarding the existence of a fortune at the bottom of the income pyramid. While some scholars argue that there is a profitable market at the pyramid base, others refute this proposition, arguing that targeting poor people as customers could lead to unethical business practices and further their exploitation. With the aid of mini cases, this article explains that there is indeed a fortune to be made at the base of the pyramid but that good fortune can be created for both corporations and poor people if the population at the bottom of the pyramid is treated as suppliers, producers, co-owners, and/or employees rather than as mere consumers. However, in terms of consumers, there is a market for firms at the base of the pyramid through which they can earn profits and simultaneously help eradicate poverty, mainly by lowering the cost structure for poor people. In other words, firms that can reduce poverty and provide cost-effective utilitarian goods and services to poor people have more to gain from such individuals than those firms that provide more luxurious goods and services or offer goods with mere aesthetic or emotional value. With the help of mini cases, this article explains four measures firms can use to create fortunes for themselves as well as for poor customers by avoiding affordability and adaptability traps.     

浅谈会计的职业道德

本文针对当前会计的职业道德的几个问题进行论述并指出提高会计职业道德的途径。     

食品安全伦理初探

食品安全问题不仅仅是一个法律、政治、经济问题,从其道德层面而言应是一个伦理问题,本文通过提出食品安全伦理概念、意义、原则、措施等对食品安全问题进行了浅要的剖析,试图从伦理道德角度对食品安全问题的解决提供一些思路。     

THE KNOWLEDGE INHERITANCE THEORY OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE

This article criticises the 'knowledge inheritance theory of distributive justice' presented by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly in their Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back; Wealth and Inequality in the Knowledge Economy (New York: The New Press, 2008). The authors claim that since innovation depends far more on accumulated knowledge than on any individual's contribution, most resulting wealth is deserved equally by all members of society. Their redistributive conclusion is not justified. Illegitimately applying the concept of justice to contexts where it is at best metaphorical, the 'knowledge inheritance theory' massively undervalues the role of individual intellectual activity, and relies on confusions concerning the nature of society, rights, causality, and gifts.     

Problems of Emergency Arbitration

This paper explores ethical burdens facing the economics profession which are associated with epistemic features of economic practice. Economists exert power over those they purport to serve by virtue of epistemic asymmetry between themselves and others, i.e., the intellectual monopoly they enjoy over a vitally important body of knowledge. But they also face the problem of epistemic insufficiency, which implies that they may do substantial harm as they try to do good. The paper explores the ethical entailments of the epistemic features of economics, and argues that managing the ethical challenges requires a new field of inquiry, the field of professional economic ethics, and not just a code of conduct.     

What’s in a Credo? A Critique of the Academy of Management’s Code of Ethical Conduct and Code of Ethics

The Academy of Management formally adopted a Code of Ethical Conduct in 1990. During the subsequent 15 years, almost nothing had been published about it and its value as a formal document meant to guide professional practice. Rather surprisingly then, in December 2005 an entirely new Code of Ethics was introduced by the Academy’s Board, to take effect in February 2006. Why was a new code promulgated? More broadly, what do the contents of these codes, the processes of their promulgation, and their expressed purposes, suggest about the value of such codes for similarly situated professional associations, in general? This article seeks to identify key strengths and weaknesses of the original code, begin an assessment of the potential value of the new code, and so stimulate debate. Further, not only is this a call to the members of the Academy to engage in some thoughtful debate and possible amendment of its new code, but also a caution to all such associations to take seriously the hurdles that must be jumped before any code can be developed and promulgated to worthwhile effect.     

考克斯圆桌商业原则与企业发展(英文)

考克斯圆桌商业原则,突破了旧的企业伦理观,反对企业将利润作为唯一追求,强调兼顾企业、个人、社会的新的企业伦理观。考克斯圆桌商业原则体现了一种均衡的、协调的发展观和思想。     

会计人员职业道德修养问题探讨

造假账、会计信息失真已成为当前一个热点问题,其危害性极大。,提高会计人员职业道德修养应从八个方面入手,多方共同努力,才能实现以法理财与以德理财相结合,保证会计工作的质量和社会经济的健康发展。     

论服饰色彩的伦理思想价值探究

服饰色彩作为一定社会伦理的外部表现,以自己特有的物质形式表现着这些伦理观念,从而以一定文化符号的形式构建了服饰色彩伦理的道德内容和价值体系。服饰色彩的这种真假区分、善恶评价、美丑取舍内在的规定了服饰色彩伦理的价值内容,从而对人们的着装心理、着装习惯产生重大影响。     

浅谈会计从业人员职业道德建设

本文就会计从业人员职业道德建设谈点个人粗浅认识.