The Internet has occupied the whole world. People pay bills and provide some financial operations through the Internet all over the world. Every company, even a small one, has Internet software and cannot imagine its work without the Internet. As a result, the commercialization of the internet has brought some changes to the work of companies. Companies began to think about changing the fundamental aspects of company strategies. The commercialization of the Internet gave a push to the appearance of such notion as “e-business”.
Every organization tries to run its business according to some ethical rules. It is not a secret that there is business ethics, according to which people provide their business affairs. E-business is a relevantly new discipline that needs research and distribution. There is no doubt that the e-business ethics concepts should be studied as the discipline has widespread among companies in modern. So, our research will be directed to the ethics in e-business, its main principles, and sphere of usage. We should also state here the reason why we have chosen this topic for research.
The introduction is one of the main parts of our research. In this part, we should give an explanation of the necessity of the whole of our research, its urgency, define its goals and represent the facts why it is going to be interesting.
The first what we should point out is what business ethics means in general: its issues, some specific aspects, and activities. Then we should give a snippet review of what e-business is and what it is primary considerations. The main consideration of this part of our research should be the answer to the question of whether ethics is necessary for e-business and what for.
The next step of our research is to consider the ethical theories, according to which people should reflect and evaluate their moral judgments. We should dwell upon ethical egoism, utilitarianism, Kantianism, discourse ethic theory, and virtue theory. (Jackson)
Ethics in cyberspace should also be one of the parts of the research. We should represent the reader with the notion of cyberspace and ethics in its measures.
The ethics of advertising is one of the main issues in e-business and we should pay attention to it in our research paper. The problem of children’s interaction with computer technologies and reading advertising should also be one of the parts of this question.
The last point which we should consider in our research is a standardization of e-business ethics on the level of the company. Here we should dwell upon the ethics code, and study any company and give some examples of code of ethics in this company. We should conclude the work we have provided, some specific points we have discovered, and again underline the urgency of research the problem.
The question about ethics in e-business is very interesting because of many aspects. We may face e-business in the future and our task is to be familiar with the principles of running a business, ethical principles. The e-business discipline is rather new, and there are not many researches in this field of knowledge. E-business ethics is rather common with business ethics and our task in the research paper is to state the business ethics principles and to identify the differences which occur between them. We should know the details of not only how to run a business but also how to behave ourselves in different situations.
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