La controverse éthique en entreprise : Ce que nous en disent des manuels d’éthique économique

Abstract

Ethics is the subject of discourses and practices in companies and public spaces. I analyze here the phenomenon in terms of ethical controversy. Speaking of controversy means that a central theme emerges considered by stakeholders as mayor and recognized issues. The ethical controversy produces an effect of domination, but opens also a space for dialogue and confrontation. It produces effects that can lead, however, social actors to potential subversion of social relations. Many "handbooks" of business ethics punctuate the debate in the public space as such they are among the major media of this controversy. But reflections on business ethics are echoing links with conflictuality known by many studies as remaining while turning? Do the handbooks treat the question of the relationship of ethics to economic and social change, and how? Do they make links, or not, with the issues of justice and those of social conflicts within organizations? What conceptions of the subject, its liability and / or freedom, do these books show, or not, as such? Finally, do these business ethics handbooks, namely tackle the means and arrangements put in place under organization and decision, saying, ethical?