Is Short-Term Thinking Destroying Capitalism? Vignettes for Teaching Business Ethics

Hershey H. Friedman; Miriam Gerstein; Sholom Schochet; Sarah Hertz

Is Short-Term Thinking Destroying Capitalism? Vignettes for Teaching Business Ethics

Hershey H. Friedman
, Miriam Gerstein
, Sholom Schochet
, Sarah Hertz

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Abstract

This paper will provide faculty who are interested in teaching ethics with several vignettes that may be easily incorporated into any course. The purpose of these real-life, brief vignettes is to encourage students to think about the consequences of decisions. Sometimes, focusing on profits and ignoring the ethical implications may have far-reaching consequences. Whereas some cases used in business ethics courses aim to do this, this paper provides numerous brief vignettes to show the considerable consequences of unethical and neglectful conduct in running an organization.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	515-554
Number of pages	40
Journal	Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy (JAEPP)
Volume	21
Issue number	4
State	Published - Dec 3 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Business Ethics
Unethical Marketing
Unethical Ethicists
Harassment of Workers
Opioid Epidemic
Marketing of Sugary Beverages
E-cigarettes
Boeing’s 737 Max
Takata Airbags
ExxonMobil
and Climate Change

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