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| Author: | Michaelson, C. |
| Title: | Compliance and the illusion of ethical progress |
| Journal: | Journal of Business Ethics
2006 : JUN/JUL, VOL 66:2-3, p. 241-251 |
| Index terms: | business ethics legislation corporate responsibility |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Compliance is usually defined to be a necessary but insufficient condition for ethics, a distinction between the two concepts which has now been institutionalized. This article asks if it makes sense to impose ethics as a compliance requirement. It argues that assertions of organizational ethical progress do not get the conventional distinction quite right, and that there can actually be no such thing as organizational ethical progress. Our ordinary ways of talking about business conduct management often betray logical confusions about the ethics-compliance relationship. |
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