Three ways companies are getting ethics wrong : is the explosion of standards and products around corporate social responsibility making your company more, not less, vulnerable to ethical missteps? / David Weitzner
Edition
[First edition]
Published
[Cambridge, Massachusetts] : MIT Sloan Management Review, 2022
Business ethics has become too complex and is undermining the ability of companies to meet the ethical expectations of stakeholders. Simpler is better. Leaders need to stop outsourcing ethics and explain their company’s value propositions in a clear, concise, nontechnical sentence or two that their least sophisticated stakeholder can understand. And they need to resist making big bets on visions for future social change instead of being transparent around current sources of profitability
