Ethical issues of information and business: a critical perspective.

Businesses and the economic system they work in have an important influence on ethical issues arising from information and information and communication technology. This chapter aims at establishing a link between several sets of ethical discourses that concern similar topics. It offers an introduction to some of the current debates in business ethics and considers how information and technology influence the current topics and debates in the area. Drawing on some of the debates in computer and information ethics, the paper points out areas where these two sets of discourses overlap and where they have the potential to inform each other. The chapter will do so by looking at some prominent examples of issues that arise in business and computer ethics, including privacy and employee surveillance and intellectual property, as well as some macrolevel issues including globalization and digital divides.

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