مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد بازنمایی در اخلاق تجاری – امرالد ۲۰۱۷

The emergence of Business Ethics in Australia was as a result of the Financial Crash and the debacle of the latter years of the 1980s that surrounded it. When the smoke had cleared and the damage was evident to all right across the Australian community, it became apparent that many of the senior figures of corporate Australia had been bereft of ethical principles in the ways that they had conducted their business affairs and many had violated the laws of the land. Milton-Smith (1995, p. 683) believed that before the crash in Australia: “High profile entrepreneurs became folk heroes and, one suspects, the most influential business role models for the community. When the bubble finally burst and the crash came, it soon became clear how corrupt and leaderless the Australian system had become … In the wake of corporate collapses, … many questions have been raised about the integrity of business and government leaders.” The former heroes of the Australian business world were now pariahs, with a number of them being incarcerated in gaols and or fleeing judgement to areas of the world that did not have an extradition arrangement with Australia. This realisation that there was ‘a malaise’ at the heart of the Australian corporate business community sent many people in search of better ways to do business and it was in the area of Business Ethics that many sought refuge and guidance in order to hopefully assist to mitigate the future damage of another wave of this type of malfeasant behaviour that had brought our economy virtually to its knees. The objective of this paper is therefore to provide reflections on Business Ethics in the 25 year window from 1992-2017 and to then seek to examine some of the concerns for the future of which we all need to be cognizant. To this end in the paper, a comparison of world events across the years 1992-2107 is made to gauge the evolution of events in a number of areas, as the process of time impacts on our world history moving forward. Then in the paper, the developments in Business Ethics in the developed world across the same time period are examined, finishing with an examination of a number of the current issues that may well have an impact on Business Ethics moving into the future.