Overview With the recent news of a 25-year-old committing suicide at Foxconn over the possible theft of a new iPhone, the debate over the responsibility foreign firms have for the way suppliers manage labour was re-ignited. It is a decades-old issue, highlighted in the West through books such as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and high profile media stories such as the 1997 Nike labour scandal. It is an issue that continues to raise its head throughout many supply chains rooted in Asia.

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The environmental crisis that our modern society faces is a cultural crisis in essence. This crisis can not be solved only by technical and economic means, but instead, it needs a radical change of ideas. As a sustained cultural form that seeks a coordinated development between humans and nature, ecological culture must be based on holist philosophy and the values of ecology and view ecologist thinking pattern and deep-structure ecological awareness as its content core. The world outlook and methodology that the results of the studies of ecology have demonstrated have supplied a solid foundation for the building of the concept of an ecological culture.

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This is a culture investigation report on Chinese business ethics. The author in the last three years of the enterprise survey thinks that Chinese companies will be summed up as patriarchal, contracts, career three types, and criticizes the elite talent, management concept and management models, and finally put forward the concept of full talents as the ethical starting point of corporate human resources development and management

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Recent years, more and more institutional investors overseas are concerned with target firm’s social performance in choosing investment targets, that is Social Responsible Investment SRI. SRI through changing the ethics notion of General Managers thus creates ethical impact on General Manager’s operation behaviors.

From the perspective of organization, SRI notion will help form ethical managers, thus shaping good ethic atmosphere, make effective loyal principles. The making of ethic principles will reinforce the shaping of ethic atmosphere, so eventually enhance the organization’s whole ethics status.

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Since WWII, Japanese firms start to adopt internal control governance structure. The reason is the ethics character of Japanese firms that determine its business development model. From board governance, shareholders ethics and bank ethics three dimensions all demonstrate the unique character of Japanese firms’ governance.

With the changing external environment, the governance model and ethics notion of Japanese firms is consistently changing, the logic relations of two things determine the innovation and development direction of Japanese firm governance model.

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The author ever taught Business Ethics class and had students discuss a Harvard case: Wetherill Associates, Inc. This company was famous for its ethic operation model. Some students during discussion proposed question, so we have to review the case again. Why a company that is ethical to clients, staff, shareholders, and competitors arouse so many critics and even some students believe it’s not ethical? Then, what’s ethics in essence?

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With the recent news of a 25-year-old committing suicide at Foxconn over the possible theft of a new iPhone, the debate over the responsibility foreign firms have for the way suppliers manage labour was re-ignited. It is a decades-old issue, highlighted in the West through books such as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and high profile media stories such as the 1997 Nike labour scandal. It is an issue that continues to raise its head throughout many supply chains rooted in Asia