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Political Counterbalance and Personal Values: Ethics and Responsibility in a Global Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Abstract:

The extraordinarily rapid growth of global communications, information technology, and investments have energized hundreds of millions of business people and opened up immense opportunities in most of the countries of the world. Yet this apparently inevitable global business growth also has parallel dangers for people. In two areas the weaknesses of the global economy are evident: (1) Global business and financial operations with little accountability for long-term human needs; and (2) Goals and values of business managers that are not sufficient for business or for life.

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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2000

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