Business Ethics
Should Business Ethics Be an Imperial as Well as a Colonized Discipline? Relating Markets to Other Competitive Institutions Wayne Nordness Eastman Rutgers Business School Some countries, notably South Korea, have a history of moving from being colonized to becoming formidable economic and cultural imperial powers themselves--witness Kia cars, Samsung phones, K-Pop songs, and Parasite's best picture Oscar several years back--even while remaining much smaller objectively than powerful neighbors--in Korea's case, its former colonizer Japan and the behemoth of China. This paper is written in the hope that in the coming years the field of normative business ethics will follow a similar trajectory. We can, it will be suggested, move being a mostly colonized subject of intellectual approaches from outside, such as virtue ethics, utilitarianism, deontology, agency theory, anti-capitalism, and pro-capitalism, to a South Korea-like mixed status in which we are an important exporter of