Ethical Absolutist and Ethical Relativist Approaches to Foxconn’s Employment Practices

Abstract

The differences between ethical relativist and ethical absolutist approaches can be illustrated by considering the contrasting insights that they might offer on a specific, ethically charged, business-related issue. This case study offers those insights as a way of describing and predicting.

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