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The paper debates the ethical challenges of virtual enterprises in Brazil. These questions are linked to the relationship between economic agents in the virtual space, It’s important to understand the development of markets in the capitalist system as construction of “moral infrastructures”. In the virtual enterprise level this debate reflects about new perspectives of action in the scope of the managerial strategies and behavior of the organizational actors (managers, workers, consumers, ...). In this direction, the ethical reflections in to the business can bring new lights on the challenges that virtual enterprises find in the developing countries as the Brazil.
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de Sousa Teodósio, A. (2001). “Moral Infrastructure” and Virtual Enterprises: Ethics as a Competitive Factor for the Internet Commerce in Brazil. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Rabelo, R.J. (eds) E-Business and Virtual Enterprises. PRO-VE 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35399-9_41
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