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| Tekijä: | Sama, L.M. Shoaf, V. |
| Otsikko: | Ethics on the Web: Applying moral decision-making to the new media |
| Lehti: | Journal of Business Ethics
2002 : MAR, VOL. 36:1-2, p. 93-103 |
| Asiasana: | Electronic commerce Business ethics Decision making Privacy Social responsibility |
| Vapaa asiasana: | e-commerce e-business |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This paper examines the advent of the Web as a critical media tool in the promotion and sale of goods to consumers and the ethical questions it raises that are issues of public policy. It examines four traditional ethical rationales that guide organizational decision-making - utilitarianism, distributive justice, moral rights of man and relativism, further characterized as "ends-based", "equity-based", 11 rulesbased" and "comparison-based" rationales - and applies them to four moral dilemmas attributed to the proliferation of dot.com companies as they relate to consumer welfare. It is found that ethical rationale in the New Media is largely non-existent, and where it exists, it is primarily reactive and driven by utilitarian or relativistic reasoning. This condition is attributed to the newness of the industry and to its economic context, representing, as it does, many characteristics embodied in the concept of the "perfect market." There are offered some remedies to improve ethical conduct by e-business. |
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