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100 1 _aAbend, Gabriel.
245 1 4 _aThe Moral Background :
_ban Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics /
_cGabriel Abend.
260 _aPrinceton :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource.
490 1 _aPrinceton studies in cultural sociology.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe moral background -- Ethics as a business proposition -- Christian motives -- The good of American business -- The good of American society -- Standards of practice -- The Christian merchant.
520 _aIn recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. In The Moral Background, Gabriel Abend develops just such a framework and uses it to investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s. According to Abend, morality consists of three levels: moral and immoral behavior, or the behavioral level; moral understandings and norms, or the normative level; and the moral background, which includes what moral concepts exist in a society, what moral metho.
538 _aAvailable electronically via the Internet.
650 0 _aBusiness ethics
_xHistory.
653 _aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS
653 _aBusiness ethics.
653 _aElectronic books.
653 _aHistory.
655 0 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aAbend, Gabriel.
_tMoral background.
_dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
_z9780691159447
_w(DLC) 2013035034
_w(OCoLC)857863394.
830 0 _aPrinceton studies in cultural sociology.
856 4 0 _uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/vu.edu.au?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hhq6v
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