Theoretical foundations of the Bratislava School of Business Ethics

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explain the key theoretical foundations of business ethics as a social scientific and academic discipline that was established and further developed at the Faculty of Management at Comenius University in Bratislava. The authors of this article refer to this school of thought as the “Bratislava School of Business Ethics” with the intention of pointing out its relative autonomy in research and higher education in the Slovak academic environment.

Keywords

• integrative business ethics
• bratislava school of business ethics
• ethical rationality
• economical rationality
• ethical behavior
• unethical conduct
• managerial ethics