Professional Accountants' Ethical Intent - The Impact Of Job Role Beliefs And Professional Identity

2012

Although ethics is commonly defined as the science of the moral, the present paper shows that the larger part of contributions to the emerging innovation ethics discourse rather does than studies moral communication. Instead of descriptevely analyzing how moral dilemmas are soleved and decision-making refers to moral communication, contemporary innovation ethicists try to solve moral dilemmas by moral communication. In doing so, the larger part of innovation ethics is subject to a self-confusion with its own research fiels. As as result, ethics subordinates its own code of truth to the codes of power, health, law, money, and further function systems of society. Challenging this thrend, the …