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In addition to your business and economic courses, this chapter will provide you with the concepts and the starting point of the applied discipline of business ethics.

Business ethics is intended to ensure that economic activity works to the advantage of others and thus complements business management and economics.

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  1. 1.

    See Singhapakdi, A./Vitell, S. J./Kraft, K. L. (1996); Frey, B. F. (2000) and Butterfield, K. D./Treviño, L. K./Weaver, G. R. (2000).

  2. 2.

    See Ritter, Joachim /Gründer, Karlfried/Gabriel, Gottfried (1984), p. 149.

  3. 3.

    Kant, Immanuel (1788), p. 269.

  4. 4.

    See Göbel, Elisabeth (2010), pp. 45.

  5. 5.

    See Schmidt, Heinrich (1982), p. 172 and Göbel, Elisabeth (2010), p. 10.

  6. 6.

    See Götzelmann, Arnd (2010), pp. 17 and Schmidt, Walter (1986), p. 40.

  7. 7.

    See Kirste, Reinhard and von Bingen, Hildegard.

  8. 8.

    See Leisinger, Klaus M. (1997), p. 144 and http://www.familie.de/eltern/sekundaertugenden-foerdern-moral-538569.html

  9. 9.

    See Störig, Hans Joachim (1997), pp. 152; Hersch, Jeanne (1981), p. 274; Schuschanaschwili, G G. (1987), pp. 855 and http://www.paradisi.de/Freizeit_und_Erholung/Kultur/Philosophie/Artikel/22607_Seite_9.php (15.04.2015).

  10. 10.

    See Korff, Wilhelm (1999), p. 312 and Göbel, Elisabeth (2010), p. 155.

  11. 11.

    See Kreikebaum, H. (1996), p. 14 and Dietzfelbinger, D. (2008), p. 30.

  12. 12.

    See Göbel, Elisabeth (2010), p. 202.

  13. 13.

    The Moral Hazard theory comes originally from the Principal Agent Theory. Here, the incentives for the agent to enrich themselves with rational utility maximization at the expense of the principal. See Schnebel, Eberhard/Bienert, Margo A. (2004), p. 205.

  14. 14.

    See Aristoteles (1960), p. 196 und p. 358; See Aristoteles (1991), pp. 22 or 1257b und 1258b and Schefold, Bertram (1989), p. 19–55.

  15. 15.

    Already Max Weber saw in the Protestant and Calvinist influence a cause for the positive economic development in Switzerland, the Netherlands, England and parts of Germany. See Weber, Max (1905); Ulrich, Peter (1993), pp. 1168 and Noll, Bernd (2002), p.166.

  16. 16.

    See Aristoteles (1991), pp. 22 or 1258a, b, 1059b and Aristoteles (1960), pp. 5 or 1094a,b, 1095a.

  17. 17.

    See Aristoteles (1991), p. 27 or 1258b.

  18. 18.

    See Aristoteles (1991), p. 26 or 1258b.

  19. 19.

    See Aristoteles (1991), pp. 22 or 1257b and 1258b.

  20. 20.

    See Aristoteles (1991), p. 23 or 1256b and Aristoteles (1960), pp. 8 or 1095b.

  21. 21.

    See Stigler, George J./Becker, Gary p. (1977); Ulrich, Peter (2001), pp. 2 and Wöhe, Günther (2008), p. 17.

  22. 22.

    See Kant, Immanuel (1785), p. 25 or BA13.

  23. 23.

    See Kant, Immanuel (1785), p. 25 or BA13 and Kant, Immanuel (1797a), p. 518 or A18.

  24. 24.

    See Kant, Immanuel (1788), pp. 216 or A166, 223,225, 234. “The moral law requires the highest possible good in a world to make me the ultimate object of all behavior. This, however, I can not hope to effect, but by the agreement of my will with the holy and benevolent maker of the world,…“Kant, Immanuel (1788), p. 261 or A233.

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Conrad, C.A. (2018). Basic of Ethics. In: Business Ethics - A Philosophical and Behavioral Approach. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91575-3_1

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