RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPEAN BUSINESS ETHICS

In the first part of the paper, factual information is given about developments in European business ethics since it started on a more or less institutionalized basis, five or six years ago. In the second part some comments are presented on the meaning of the developments and the possible causes. Attention is given to resemblances and differences between American and European business ethics. In the short last part some suggestions are proposed about tasks business ethics will face in the next decade. © 1990 Kluwer Academic Publishers.