--- title: Business Ethics description: This topic examines the moral and ethical challenges that arise in corporate environments. Learners will understand how to navigate ethical dilemmas, implement compliance programs, and foster socially responsible business practices. category: business-entrepreneurship subcategory: business-fundamentals difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/business-ethics --- # Business Ethics This topic examines the moral and ethical challenges that arise in corporate environments. Learners will understand how to navigate ethical dilemmas, implement compliance programs, and foster socially responsible business practices. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 2 Courses • 5 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Ethics Unwrapped Free video library from UT Austin's McCombs School of Business, with short animated explainers on behavioral-ethics concepts, an ethics glossary, and case studies of real corporate scandals. Suited to structured classroom-style study of why people rationalize misconduct. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/ **Tags:** business-ethics, behavioral-ethics, case-studies, corporate-scandals, video-library ### 2. The Ethics Centre Website of The Ethics Centre, a Sydney-based non-profit publishing articles, explainers on ethical theories and thinkers, and case discussions on business, professional, political and personal dilemmas. Readers see how frameworks such as consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics apply to real decisions. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ethics.org.au **Tags:** applied-ethics, moral-philosophy, business-ethics, ethical-decision-making ### 3. ethicscentre.org The Ethics Centre is a practical ethics resource hub offering guidance for individuals and organisations, with articles, tools, podcasts, events, and case studies to help navigate real-world business and life ethics. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ethicscentre.org **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ### 4. hbr.org Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://hbr.org **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ### 5. scu.edu/ethics Santa Clara University’s ethics portal provides articles, case studies, and research on business ethics, along with teaching and classroom resources. It covers ethical decision-making, leadership, corporate responsibility, and related news and events for students, educators, and professionals. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://scu.edu/ethics **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ## Courses ### 1. Business Ethics Global business ethics is the study and analysis of how ethics and global business are connected. Because commerce is about markets, and markets entail exchanges between people and groups of people, commerce is about human relationships.. One of the important challenges in global business is working out the extent of these obligations in the interrelationships between businesses and the particular local cultures in which that business operates. The ethical issues arising from these engagements, the kinds of values-based considerations out of which an organization negotiates with local concerns, and how an organization can be both an enabler of economic value while respecting cultural differences are important topics of this course. You will be able to: • Become morally sensitive to ethical dilemmas in global commerce • Identify ethical issues in global business • Master stakeholder analysis • Use a well-reasoned process by which to arrive at ethically defensible decisions • Differentiate between good and weak ethical arguments and defend conclusions This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/business-ethics **Tags:** business-ethics, stakeholder-analysis, global-business, moral-reasoning, coursera ### 2. Ethical Decision-Making Four modules on the psychology behind ethical lapses: social cognition and attribution errors, conformity and behavioral contagion, moral emotions like guilt and disgust, and how holding power changes conduct. Roughly 36 short videos with quizzes. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/ethical-decision-making-social-world **Tags:** courses, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ## Books ### 1. Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases **Author:** O.C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich, Linda Ferrell A textbook that frames ethical decision making as an organizational process, covering stakeholder pressures, corporate culture, compliance programs, and global standards, then applies each framework through extended cases drawn from real corporate scandals and controversies. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618124144?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ### 2. Ethics and the Conduct of Business **Author:** John R. Boatright, Jeffery D. Smith A philosophy-grounded business ethics textbook arguing positions from economics, law, and moral theory. Readers work through employee rights, whistleblowing, marketing practice, and corporate governance, and come away able to construct and defend arguments rather than just recognize dilemmas. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0135289416?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ### 3. Managing Business Ethics **Author:** Linda K. Trevino, Katherine A. Nelson Written for practicing managers, this treats ethics as something an organization designs and enforces: codes, reward systems, culture, and leadership. Readers finish able to diagnose why good people behave badly inside otherwise well-run companies. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471246522?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/business-ethics