The theory of corporate social responsibility holds that a company must not only fulfill its economic responsibility of making profits for its shareholders, but also undertake broad legal, ethical and philanthropic responsibilities. The notion of corporate social responsibility is most vulnerable to the argument that fulfillment of social responsibility will affect the company’s financial perfo...

Web-based collective intelligence deserves and intends to become a full discipline with its formal framework, tools, measuring instruments, practical applications, and ethical field. As of yet, little attention has been paid to study the ethical dimension of harvesting the collective intelligence via Web-based collaborative systems. The present study aims to develop an ethical framework for the...

One of the most recent tendencies of modern management is that of looking at a company’s activity from the business point of view. The business culture is a very complex element reflected by the company’s organizational culture and by its components, such as the ethical approach in business, carrying the corporate social responsibility, maintaining the etiquette in business or following the goo...

A multidisciplinary faculty committee designed a curriculum to shape biomedical graduate students into researchers with a high commitment to professionalism and social responsibility and to provide students with tools to navigate complex, rapidly evolving academic and societal environments with a strong ethical commitment. The curriculum used problem-based learning (PBL), because it is active a...

With the institutionalization of algorithms as content creators, professional journalism is facing transformation and novel ethical challenges. This article focuses on the concept of Algorithmic Journalism on the basis of natural language generation and provides a framework to identify and discuss ethical issues. The analysis builds on the moral theories of deontology, utilitarianism, virtue et...

Introduction In examining wireless-internet technologies (Wi-Fi), several ethical issues are exposed. While the unauthorized use of Wi-Fi is illegal in a few select cases, what is considered permissible still varies from state to state. What does not vary, however, is the fact that individuals are going to great lengths to locate unsecured wireless access points whether it is for their own bene...

Several ethicists have defended the use of responsibility-based criteria in healthcare rationing. Yet this article we outline two challenges to implementation rationing policies. These are, namely, that responsibility for past behavior can diminish as an agent changes, and blame come apart from responsibility. suggest it is more difficult hold someone responsible health related actions than pro...

Autonomous robots such as self-driving cars are already able to make decisions that have ethical consequences. As such machines make increasingly complex and important decisions, we will need to know that their decisions are trustworthy and ethically justified. Hence we will need them to be able to explain the reasons for these decisions: ethical decision-making requires that decisions be expla...

Unique ethical issues can be associated with research outside the customary laboratory setting. Protocols involving wild animals must consider that any infringement on the wild nature of the species can be disruptive and may involve pain, fear, anxiety, and frustration, all of which constitute ethical harm that must be balanced with anticipated benefit. Agricultural and companion animal researc...

159 It has to be accepted, therefore, that within the profession there can be conflicting views and actions that are equally valid in ethical terms; and, therefore, that ethical considerations alone will not provide the answers to all of the problems that the profession has to face in its relations with the State as a near-monopoly employer of doctors. This makes it doubly important for both si...