Business Ethics

5.8.2026 - 31.7.2027

5 cr

Face-to-face

Advanced studies

The course introduces various approaches to business ethics, including a pragmatist approach. It connects business ethics to popular concepts, such as corporate social responsibility and stakeholder management, and more broadly addresses the relationship between business and society. One basic argument in the course is that managerial decision making and corporate practices have a moral dimension that cannot be separated from economic rationales. Course topics include: classical normative ethical theories, meta-ethical theories, emergence of moral issues, and pragmatist ethical theory.

The course can be taken as part of the Study Module in Corporate Responsibility(Opens in a new tab) .

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Fields

Business, administration and law

Scope

5 cr

Code

22041

Completed bachelor thesis in your major.

This course is primarily intended for Master's level students, but BSc students who have completed their Bachelor thesis can get special permission to take it. Please contact the examiner.

NB! It is your responsibility as a student to ensure you meet all prerequisites before registering for a course.

Failure to do so may result in the cancellation of your participation and the course examinar may withhold any credits earned.

After completing the course, you will be able to:

recognize, reproduce, and properly use in writing and speech
various main categories of ethical theories in relation to managerial decision making and business practices, including consequentialist, deontological, virtue, and pragmatist ethical theories
various ways of understanding and appraising concepts such as stakeholder management and corporate social responsibility, both in theory and in practice.

Organiser

Hanken School of Economics

Contact details

open@hanken.fi

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