Ethical Ideology And Cultural Orientation: Understanding The Individualized Ethical Inclinations Of Marketing Students

As today’s marketing graduates formally enter the business profession, they are expected to demonstrate the fruits of their ethics-intensive education.  Hence, their professors and future bosses may call upon these graduates to discern and deal with ethical situations that affect various aspects of company and consumer relations.  However, students enter the classroom and business environment with their own individual orientations and ideology that help them determine when an issue is ethical and requires a certain response.  Here, I examine the influences of the marketing student’s personal cultural orientation and ethical ideology on ethical perception and ethical inclination within the context of two hypothetical marketing/sales scenarios.  The findings contribute to the ongoing debate about whether or how much business ethics can really be taught

Data Science and Ethics

Data Science today profoundly influences how business is done in fields as diverse as the life sciences, smart cities, and transportation. Ethics in this study is defined as shared values that has helped humanity differentiate right from wrong; and data science is narrated as an inter-disciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from many structured and unstructured data. Data ethics have really become a real issue since different organizations have different working operational standards and rules guiding resourceful data. Also, due to the spark increase in data, majority of the organizations do not understand the importance of data they produce regularly. Hence, the purpose of this study paved way to establish general acceptable and basic guidelines for the use of data amongst data scientists and data practitioners. To establish these guidelines, a systematic literature review approach was used to review some related literatures. Six (6) professional parastatals were examined, in which Four (4) of these professional parastatals were discovered to have similar guidelines with the basic guidelines established in this study. We scrutinized the existing similar guidelines and perceive the need to present it in our study. This was based on the discovery of similar guidelines from the sampled data science parastatals; the approximation of 67% similarity guidelines was observed which passes a threshold of what we termed to be an accepted guideline. The established guidelines can be used by organizations and data-related professions to develop explicit internal policies, procedures, guidelines and best practices for data ethics. Keywords: Algorithms, Artificial intelligence, Blockchain, Data science, Ethics, Microtargeting. DOI: 10.7176/CEIS/11-5-02 Publication date:September 30th 202

New Spectacles for Juliette: Values and Ethics for Creative Business

This is the third book in an on-going series published by Nottingham Creative Network which was established in 2006 as a re-incarnation of Creative Collaborations which was established in 2003. Both incarnations offer(ed) professional and business development advice, support, training and networking opportunities made relevant for the specific and sometimes non-standard ways that creative businesses operate and exchange. This series of books occupies a cross-over space between broad conceptual debates, creativity itself, ideas for creative business and concrete advice for professional development. The first in this series is entitled Fish, Horses and Other Animals; Professional and Business Development for the Creative Ecology and tries to offer some ideas about understanding and engaging with informal creative business networks. The second, Soul Food, and Music: Research and Innovation for Creative Business explores ways to consolidate research for creative business and use it for thinking about innovation. As you will see, this third book continues the theme of professional and business development for the specifics of creative business by introducing questions of values and ethics into our broader on-going discussion

Adam Smith’s Bourgeois Virtues in Competition

Whether or not capitalism is compatible with ethics is a long standing dispute. We take up an approach to virtue ethics inspired by Adam Smith and consider how market competition influences the virtues most associated with modern commercial society. Up to a point, competition nurtures and supports such virtues as prudence, temperance, civility, industriousness and honesty. But there are also various mechanisms by which competition can have deleterious effects on the institutions and incentives necessary for sustaining even these most commercially friendly of virtues. It is often supposed that if competitive markets are good, more competition must always be better. However, in the long run competition enhancing policies that neglect the nurturing and support of the bourgeois virtues may undermine the continued flourishing of modern commercial society

Value-adding and value-extracting entrepreneurship at the margins

Empirical data is reported from two case studies on the methods used to establish and grow the businesses of two entrepreneurs operating in very different environments: one legitimate, the other illegitimate. Both utilize strong social skills to legitimize their behaviours but neither can be considered as mainstream or conventional entrepreneurial actors. The findings suggest that, despite the very different outcomes associated with their actions, both entrepreneurs exhibit similar enterprising skills and managerial capabilities as found in entrepreneurs engaged in non-marginal activities

Religion as source of moral energy for Turkish enterpreneurs

This article was presented at the 33rd Annual ISBE Conference in Lindon, 2010Turkey has a distinctive status within the Muslim world. It is a Muslim country with a greater than 95% Muslim population, and yet it is the only Muslim country that has inscribed the principle of secularism (laiklik) into its constitution. From the very beginning of the Republic, Turkish society has experienced polarization between the ‘Islamists’ and the ‘secularists’. As in every major religion, the Islamic faith prescribes ethical/moral values which shape the way of life at both the level of the individual and society. Unsurprisingly, it is possible to see Islamic moral principles also filtering through to regulate business life

Are Socially Responsible Behaviors Paid Off Equally? A Cross‐cultural Analysis

Based on the strong influence that national culture has on corporate social and responsibility (CSR) actions (institutional theory), it is necessary to study how the financial outcomes of CSR actions could be affected by these cultural characteristics. This fact is particularly interesting for managers whose companies operate in different cultures given that they have to deal with this aspect. The aim of this paper is to analyze the moderator role that national culture could have on the CSR and firm performance (CSR‐FP) relationship through a meta‐analysis, hence helping to clarify the debate existing about this relationship in the literature. The results show that this relationship is greatly affected by national culture. In this sense, countries with a high assertiveness and gender egalitarianism show a very negative relationship. Nevertheless, those with a higher future orientation, institutional collectivism, and a humane orientation reveal a positive correlation which reaches its maximum value in those countries with a high uncertainty avoidance