CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COMMUNITIES OR KNOWLEDGE ISLANDS: EXAMINING BUSINESS DISCIPLINES JEAN A. PRATT University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Eau Claire‚ WI 54702 KARINA HAUSER Utah State University Logan‚ UT 84322 CASSIDY R. SUGIMOTO Indiana University - Bloomington Bloomington‚ IN 47405 ABSTRACT Successful knowledge transfer provides benefits to companies and society. Knowledge management across disparate business functions leads to improvement in business processes. Colleges are comprised of different
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the business world. In particular‚ the question of what ethical behavior actually involves will be analyzed in depth. Ethics is a topic that can be discussed at length without reaching universal consensus‚ and this text will not be an exception. However‚ it should shed some light on the issue of ethical corporate behavior. The objectives and responsibilities of business will be covered‚ as well as the ethical obligations of various parties. Scholars have declared that business and ethics are
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BUSINESS ETHICS Individual assignment Topic 1: The factors influencing corporate culture I. NATURE AND BACKGROUND OF FIRM: The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest beverage company and is the leading producer and marketer of soft drinks. Today‚ Coca-Cola is consumed throughout the world at the rate of more than 600 million times per day and this figure is continuing to rise. However‚ Coca-Cola is not the sort of company to live on its past glories;
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) Books Ethics and Mgmt by Hosmer Business Ethics by Shekher Business Ethics by Chakrobarthy (Oxford publication) Sy l la b us 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Evolution of thought of ethics in business Culture & ethics Overview of ethics value system‚ attitudes‚ beliefs and life patterns Social‚ economical values & responsibilities Trusteeship Management- Gandhian philosophy of wealth management Ethics and Indian management Basic framework of normative ethics Ethics and decision
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BES401: BUSINESS ETHICS & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WEEK I - INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS Definition of ethics Ethics is the discipline dealing with what is good or bad‚ or what is right or wrong or specifically with moral duty and obligation. Ethics has been defined as “inquiry into the nature and grounds of morality where the term morality is taken to mean moral judgment‚ standards and rules of conduct. It has also been called the study and philosophy of human conduct with an emphasis on
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international products that miserably fail in the market. Is it because it does not get a mega budget ‘filmy-wala’ style launch? Or is it simply that the product lacks those benefits for which it was created? CROSS CULTURE in business is becoming a prominent problem for the failure of a product in international business. Cross cultural sensitivity is the quality of being aware and accepting other cultures. This is important because what seems acceptable in some countries can be rude or derogatory
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I. ABSTRACT Without question "business ethics" is one of the hot topics of the day. Over the past months we have seen business after business charged with improper practices that violate commonly accepted ethical norms. This has led to a loss of confidence in corporate management‚ and has had severe economic consequences. Business ethics serves the important social function of integrating business and society‚ by promoting the legitimacy of business operations‚ through critical reflection
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Ideas of Business Ethics By: ************* BBA 4751-03C‚ Business Ethics Professor O’Connor Ethics play an increasingly important role in today’s business environment. From whistle-blowing to workplace privacy and from marketing‚ advertising and product safety to occupational health and safety‚ the conduct of business is the public eye more and more everyday. In this paper‚ I will examine and discuss the aforementioned topics. First‚ what are ethics? According to American Heritage
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BUSINESS ETHICS LEARNING PORTFOLIO 2011 This learning portfolio is a summary of my learning journey of Business ethics in last four months. It is a formal academic document prepared with diverse events that I have learned from all the resources in and around me. By writing and presenting this portfolio‚ I have achieved the unit outcomes of Business Ethics 657. Deepak Kuriacose Student ID: 14211825 Unit Coordinator: Dr .David Pick 23/05/2011 BUSINESS ETHICS: Portfolio Navigation
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Necessity Of Ethics In Business Ours is a business-centered society. “No group in America is more influential than businessmen” (Baumhart xv). Their influence‚ for good or evil‚ enters every life and every home many times each day. If this influence is good‚ the nation is strengthened; if it is evil‚ the nation is weakened. Obviously‚ the myriad decisions of businessmen will significantly determine our national health; ethical‚ as well as economic. “Business ethics are discussed
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