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Business Ethics: A Chinese Approach

About: The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Business relationship management & Philosophy of business.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss whether an indigenous African ethic, as expressed in ubuntu, may serve as an example of how to decolonise Western knowledge, and analyse three strategies to construct models of "African" (business) ethics, namely transfer, translation and stating of a substantive rival model.
Abstract: This essay discusses whether an indigenous African ethic, as expressed in ubuntu, may serve as an example of how to decolonise Western knowledge. In the first part, the key claims of decolonisation of knowledge are set out. The second part analyses three strategies to construct models of ‘African’ (business) ethics, namely transfer, translation and stating of a substantive rival model as contained in ubuntu ethics. After a critical appraisal of this substantive proposal, part three indicates the potential and limitation of the decolonisation project: possibilities lie in the (re)-contextualisation of knowledge, whereas limitations are related to constructing an alternative to what is known as ‘scientific’ knowledge. As far as the author knows, this is the first attempt to frame (business) ethics in terms of the epistemological search for ‘decolonised’ knowledge.

29 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the current status of economic and business ethics as field of teaching, training and research in the East Asia region, particularly in China, Japan, and Korea, is investigated.
Abstract: While Economic and Business Ethics has already attracted increasing attention in East Asia, a comprehensive survey of Economic and Business Ethics has never been done in this region. This study investigates the current status of Economic and Business Ethics as field of teaching, training and research in the East Asia region, particularly in China, Japan, and Korea. Based on multiple approaches that include questionnaire surveys, desktop analysis, and personal observation, this article reports on the current state of training, teaching, and research in the field of Economic and Business Ethics in the three countries. It also discusses similarities and differences with regard to these themes among the countries studied.

12 citations

01 Apr 2017
TL;DR: Inaugural address deliver by Prof P Naude, Director: University of Stellenbosch Business School, on 04 April 2017 as mentioned in this paper, was the first address of the 2017 South African Presidential Election.
Abstract: Inaugural address deliver by Prof P Naude, Director: University of Stellenbosch Business School, on 04 April 2017

4 citations


Cites background from "Business Ethics: A Chinese Approach..."

  • ...5 The dominance in academic circles of the West must, for theology at least, not lose sight of the significant reach and influence of the Eastern-Orthodox tradition and the blossoming of indigenous Pentecostal movements. 6 In the same way it is an abstraction to speak about ‘a Western’ or ‘a European’ approach. 7 See the Chinese approach to business ethics as set out by Xiaohe Lu (2010). 8 See the classic text written already in 1899 by Inazo Nitobe (source here from 2004) on Samurai ethics in the context of Japanese culture....

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  • ...…Chinese communities that are being transformed by ‘modern society’ to ‘universal trust’ as response to China’s opening up to the global economy (Lu, 2010:117– 127). communities in the New Testament with the values embedded in, for example, the body metaphor.35 It is clear that in most…...

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  • ...11 Further examples: In what way do rites of passage in Africa represent the concept of ‘tradition’ as set out by Alisdaire MacIntyre? How do African proverbs illustrate ‘choosing the mean between extremes’, as proposed by Aristotle? 12 See, for example, the more than 500 cases listed by the African Association of Business Schools (www.aabschools.com) and the sources provided by the South African Business School Association (www.sabsa.co.za). See the interesting case studies listed in Chapter 23 of Rossouw and Van Vuuren (2013). 13 Lawrence Kohlberg completed his Essays on moral development in two volumes (1981 and 1984) and both were published in San Francisco by Harper & Row....

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  • ...7 See the Chinese approach to business ethics as set out by Xiaohe Lu (2010)....

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  • ...(This does not preclude American journals for sociology, bioethics and so forth). 10 That we in Africa are inevitably drawn toward the centre is, for example, evident from the very successful and good book, Business ethics, edited by colleagues Deon Rossouw and Leon van Vuuren. This book started in 1994 as Business ethics: A southern Africa perspective. It became Business ethics in Africa in 2002, and as from the third edition (2004) onwards, the title has just been Business ethics....

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