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A recent survey indicated that the majority of schools of business administration do not offer courses in business ethics and/or the social responsibilities of business firms. The author examines the reasons for the omission of these courses, and concludes that faculty in the major disciplines and techniques of management do not recognize the complexity of ethical problems or the importance of ethical decisions in the overall management of large business organizations.
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La Rue Hosmer is Professor of Policy and Control at the Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Michigan. He has A.B., M.B.A., and D.B.A. degrees from Harvard University, and was the founder and president of a company that manufactured heavy equipment for sawmills and papermills. He has been teaching Business Policy, Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship at The University of Michigan since 1972, with visiting appointments during that period at Stanford and Yale. His research interests are in managerial ethics, corporate responsibility and strategic implementation. He is the co-author of The Entrepreneurial Function (Prentice-Hall, 1977) and the author of Strategic Management: Text and Cases on Business Policy (Prentice-Hall, 1982), Formation Planning (McGraw-Hill, 1984), and Managerial Ethics (in press).
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Hosmer, L.T. The other 338: Why a majority of our schools of business administration do not offer a course in business ethics. J Bus Ethics 4, 17–22 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382669
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382669