Cutting-edge Issues in Business Ethics: Continental Challenges to Tradition and Practice

Business ethics originated in the United States as an offshoot of theoretical ethics and as part of a movement in applied ethics that was initiated with medical ethics. Although a few small religious-based colleges and universities offered courses in business ethics just after the Second World War, business ethics as an academic field developed most seriously in many universities in the early 1970s. The field of medical ethics was well-developed by then, and it was a natural step to think a...