Business ethics and the role of context: institutionalism, history and comparisons in the Asia Pacific region

The role of business ethics is important and key to organizations and management. To what extent business ethics are actually new or fashionable or universally applicable is an interesting question. Business ethics can usefully use the explanatory power of New Institutionalism and Modes of Exchange...

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Published inAsia Pacific business review Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 353 - 365
Main Authors Rowley, Chris, Oh, Ingyu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.07.2016
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Asia
Business
Business ethics
China
Ethics
Institutionalism
Japan
Korea
Management
modes of exchange
new instiutionalism
Power
Asia
Asia-Pacific region
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Summary:The role of business ethics is important and key to organizations and management. To what extent business ethics are actually new or fashionable or universally applicable is an interesting question. Business ethics can usefully use the explanatory power of New Institutionalism and Modes of Exchange as Asia has been a rich ground of contests between competing economic and ethical views of how economic norms and institutions are organized. Explaining the evolutionary similarities and differences of institutionalizing business ethics in this region was the context of history and comparisons to better ground business ethics literature, both empirically and theoretically.
ISSN:1360-2381
1743-792X
DOI:10.1080/13602381.2015.1129814