Business Norms in a World of Capitalism Triumphant. Issue 1 (1st January 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sedgwick, Peter
• Is Part Of: Modern believing. Volume 56:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 23
• Page End: 34
• Publication Date: 2015-01-01
• Subjects: Business Ethics -- Civic Responsibility -- Corporations -- Economics -- Government -- Intellectual Capital -- Markets -- Multinationals -- Private Sector -- Civic Responsibility -- Tax Avoidance; Liberalism (Religion) -- Periodicals; Theology -- Periodicals; Periodicals; Periodicals; Periodicals; 248.4
• DOI: 10.3828/mb.2015.4
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1353-1425

Abstract

Abstract : Tax avoidance highlights the shift in power from national governments to international private corporations in recent decades. Companies pay vast sums to lawyers and accountants who devise schemes that are legal but deeply self-interested and unethical, despite business ethics being taught to managers. The Churches need to be involved in reversing the erosion of civic virtue and promoting a culture of civic responsibility.