Electronic commerce has become an important factor in present-day business. The reflection of business ethics asks four questions: To what extent does e-commerce improve the ethical quality of decision making and performing in the sphere of commerce? Does e-commerce promote the "reason" for business? Does e-commerce reinforce or endanger the market's functional valueprinciples? Will e-commerce side-line or establish the ethical reflexivity of business? The present considerations will not answer definitively the above questions. Although e-commerce comprises dangers as well as opportunities relative to those questions, it is basic to hold fast at the primacy of politics and consequently demand the responsibility from business toward the "needs of life".

Enthalten in:
Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik; 2001/1 Kommentare, Studien, Berichte, Dokumentationen, Diskussionen, Rezensionen, Bibliographie (2001)

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Serie / Reihe: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik

Personen: Kaiser, Helmut

Schlagwörter: Kommunikation Neue Medien Wirtschaft Globalisierung Mensch Wirtschaftsethik Internet Markt Gesellschaftspolitik Wirtschaftspolitik Kommunikationstechnik Informationstechnik Marktwirtschaft Studie Wettbewerb Kommunikationsmittel Wissenschaftsentwicklung Wirtschaftswissenschaft