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This entry is about the ethics of war and the ethics of business and how moral justifications about the war and the way a war is waged have an impact on the responsibilities of noncombatants, that is, those who are not direct participants of the war effort, including civilians, business firms, and their executives and employees.
Business and War
As of December 2022, over one thousand American companies have publicly announced that they are voluntarily curtailing business in Russia amid pressure from consumers to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and beyond what is legally required by international sanctions (See “Over 1,000 Companies Have Curtailed Operations in Russia – But Some Remain,” Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Yale University https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-1000-companies-have-curtailed-operations-russia-some-remain). Will these efforts force Russia to end the war? Are the companies...
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Alzola, M. (2023). Business and War. In: Poff, D.C., Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_1343-1
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