How Would Confucian Virtue Ethics for Business Differ from Aristotelian Virtue Ethics?

Confucianism is potentially relevant to business ethics and business practice in many ways. Although some scholars have seen Confucian thought as applicable to corporate social responsibility (Wang and Juslin in Journal of Business Ethics 88(3):433-451, 2009) and to corporate governance (Low and Ang...

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Happiness
Management
Morality
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