Business Ethics and Social Responsibility 2016/2017

3.5 ECTs / Trimester / English

Why does Ethics matter in business?

What are the ethical responsibilities associated with being a manager, an accountant or a financial trader?

What are the main communalities and differences of recent corporate scandals and how is it possible to adopt individual and organizational strategies to prevent new ones?

Why should business organizations behave in a socially responsible way?

How can organizations develop a business strategy that integrates the generation of commercial and social value?

This course will assist students to answer such questions through the discussion of case studies concerning ethical issues and dilemmas faced by managers, financial professionals and entrepreneurs in different cultural, industrial and organizational contexts.

Pre-requesites: NA

Faculty

Associate Professor
Tommaso Ramus, Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Ethics, Business and Economics (CEBE). Received a MSc in Business Administration…