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| Code: | 235500 |
| Module title: | International Business Ethics |
| Version: | 2.0 (09/2017) |
| Last update: | 31.03.2019 18:28:25 | Person responsible for content: | Prof. Dr. Löhr, Albert albert.loehr@tu-dresden.de |
| Offered in: | International Management (M.Sc.) valid from class 2019 |
| Semester according to timetable: | WiSe (winter semester) |
| Module level: | Master |
| Duration: | 1 semester |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Place where the module will be offered: | Zittau |
| ECTS Credits: | 5 |
| Student workload (in hours): | 150 |
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| Learning and teaching methods: | Lectures (3 hrs/wk), practical sessions (1 hr/wk) and self-study. Lectures and practical sessions are held in English. |
| Further information: | This module is a core module for the Business Ethics and Responsible Management and International Management master’s degree programmes. Credit points are earned upon successful completion of the module. This module is examined with one exam at the end of the semester in English of 120 minutes. 5 credit points are awarded for this module. The module grade is the grade achieved in the examination. The total workload for this module is 150 hours. Of these, 60 hours are allocated for lectures and teaching activities and 90 hours for self-study, including exam preparation and the examination itself. |
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| Assessment | Major written exam | 120 min | 100.0% |
| Syllabus plan/Content: | The module systematically covers the three fundamental questions of inter-national business ethics: 1. the problem of the philosophical justification of globally relevant ethics (in particular discourse ethics and dialogue ethics as reference models) 2. the problem of the economic justification of necessity and possibility of (discourse) ethics when subject to global competition, and 3. the problem of management and technical justification of specific ac-tions for implementing these ethics (e.g. dialogue ethics. In addition to this, the module provides an insight into the stakeholder model as an analytical reference framework for questions relating to busi-ness ethics and typical areas of international business where ethics and economics conflict. The module also looks at the most important interna-tional initiatives (and their framework conditions) for producing induced and voluntary commitments in the area of “compliance versus integrity”, e.g. US Sentencing Commission Guidelines, Sarbanes Oxley Act, OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations, UN Global Compact (Human Rights, Lab Standards, Environmental Protection, Anti-Corruption), ISO 26000, Global Reporting Initiative, financial market standards and various social and environmental standards. |
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| Subject-specific skills and competences: | Students will learn the fundamental necessity of having normatively secure legitimation in (global) trade. Students will understand the central concepts and analytical structures of the international business ethics movement, focussing particularly on the different between economic ethics, company ethics, business ethics and international business ethics. Students will un-derstand that is it common for business decisions to be made based upon interrelations between the market, law and morals or ethics. Students will become familiar with the key topics and arguments in the tough relation-ship between economics and ethics, in particular where this applies to globally distributed business activities and value creation processes (e.g. social and environmental standards, human rights, corruption). The module teaches students the main difference between “compliance” and “integrity” as a fundamental pillars of globally active businesses for implementing and monitoring ethical responsibilities. |
| Generic competences (Personal and key skills): | see above |
| Prerequisites: | none |
| Literature: | Bowie, N. (2013): Business Ethics in the 21st Century, Springer. Brenkert, G.G. u. Beauchamp T.L. (publisher.) (2012): The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics. Oxford. Crane, A. and Matten, D. (2016): Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizen-ship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization. Oxford. DeGeorge, R. (2014): Business Ethics. 7th. ed., Pearson India. Enderle, G. (ed.) (1999): International Business Ethics. Challenges and Ap-proaches, University of Notre Dame Press. Kline, J. (2010): Ethics for International Business: Decision-Making in a Global Political Economy, Routledge. Sethi, S.P. (2003): Setting Global Standards. Guidelines for Creating Codes of Conduct in Multinational Corporations, John Wiley & Sons. Steinmann, H./Löhr, A. (2015): “Grundlegung einer republikanischen Unter-nehmensethik”, in: van Aaken, D./Schreck, Ph. (publisher.): Theorien der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, pp. 269–314, Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp. Steinmann, H./Löhr, A. (1996): “A Republican Concept of Corporate Ethics”, in: Urban, S. (Ed.): Europe?s Challenges. Economic Efficiency and Social Soli-darity, Wiesbaden 1996: Gabler, pp. 21–60. Velasquez, M.G. (2013): Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Essex. |