Managing Business Ethics and Opportunity Costs |
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Authors: | Patrick Primeaux John Stieber |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Saint John's University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, NY, 11439 Jamaica, 400, U.S.A;(2) Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, TX, 75222 Dallas, U.S.A |
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Abstract: | Economic profits differ from accounting profits. Accounting profits are usually defined as revenues minus costs, and those costs as fixed and variable. Economic profits enlist a third cost, opportunity costs. While these costs are difficult to determine with mathematical precision, they are nonetheless significant, especially for decision making in business. They reflect social costs and benefits, tensions between individual and corporate interests, and all internal and external considerations which enter into decision making in business. It is precisely within opportunity cost decision making that Primeaux and Stieber situate business ethics. |
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