Contemporary attitudes towards business ethics and corporate social responsibility

Arina Sorokina

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

A development of business ethics and its importance in the past, the present and the future are main subjects of this paper. This thesis presents a historical perspective of business ethics with further development of corporate social responsibility through changes of social awareness and an emergency of public policy. The paper describes such traditional approaches to ethics as a consequentialism, deontological and virtue ethics, some further theories as a moral pluralism and modern approaches of feminism, shareholder’s and stakeholder’s theories, theory of social contract, natural origin of business values and pragmatism. All concepts are literature based and presented with original viewpoints and quotations of scholars who influenced the development of those theories and approaches. The thesis continues with a practical part which describes original viewpoints of people around us in present time, especially about their values, expectations, and principles in business ethics. This part is structured in a way of interviewing with a further analyze of public attitudes about corporate social responsibility.

Keywords

corporate social responsiveness, corporate social responsibility, public policy, business ethics, moral issues, ethical theories, traditional approaches, modern theories of business ethics, social environment, values of community

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 21. 4. 2020

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedúci: Daniel Rosenhaft Swain, Ph.D. MA

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme / odbor:
Economics Policy and Administration / Business Administration