Economic constraints and ethical decisions in the context of European ventures

✍ Scribed by Jerome Vignon

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 350 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4544
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00383036

✦ Synopsis

Relying on personal experience of political European venture during the last four years, this paper aims at illustrating the role of ethics in public policy-making.

Crucial importance of ethics is stressed upon at three different stages of the decision-making process: shaping a vision, devising strategy and choosing options in everyday life.

Assuming that these stages could apply also to business management, the paper focusses finally on conditions for ethic's effectiveness: providing cohesion but no definite legitimacy, enforcing courage for taking risks in uncertainty but offering no insurance, it needs to be subject to mutual questioning.