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Business Ethics in Developing Countries: A Response to Rossouw

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Michael Schwartz
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Abstract

“Business Ethics in Developing Countries: A Response to Rossouw” examines Gedeon J. Rossouw's account of business morality and those preconditions that he seeks in order to develop a moral business culture in South Africa, given the historical reality in that country. The paper argues that Rossouw does not take cognisance of history. Particularly of the decade after the election of the Nationalist Party Government in 1948, when that government strove to impose its ideology upon South African Society. If he did take cognisance of that history, then he would not be able to proffer those proposals which he believes would improve business morality there. The paper also extends a caution against the acceptance of economic advancement as a pre-condition for the appearance of moral business practices. Likewise for the contrary view that economic growth is the harbinger of moral decay.

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Response Articles
Information
Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 111 - 116
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1996

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