Etikord tales about ethical consumption & business models

Business ethics, a question of coherence(s)

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Business ethics, a question of coherence(s)

Henri Allegra

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Ethics, we often talk or hear about it, but what does it really mean?

According to Britannica, “ethics is the discipline concerned with what is morally right and wrong… applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles”. At first glance, this seems clear, but then why does ethics provoke so much debate and misunderstanding?

The real difficulty is to get everyone to agree on the application of this definition in different contexts. These moral values and principles are neither universally defined nor fixed in time and space. What was considered ethical yesterday may no longer be ethical today. Similarly, what is ethical today may no longer be tomorrow. In addition, ethical standards vary from region to region due to different cultural contexts. For example, the prohibition of