A basic study of Business Ethics in Japan

本研究通过对美国和日本经济伦理学研究的回顾，对经济伦理学的定义进行了探讨，并与相关领域的企业社会责任（CSR）进行了比较，以确定经济伦理学的学科地位。近年来，以实验研究为基础的行为伦理学作为一种新的研究方法受到关注，因为它将能够补充规范伦理学，这是这一领域的传统做法。经济伦理研究可能是一个潜在的领域，发展为一个跨学科的领域。其中一个问题是，商业伦理研究如何认识和证明企业社会责任活动，以解决世界上的环境问题和贫困。

In this study, I surveyed previous business ethics researches in USA and Japan and examined to offer a definition of business ethics and compared it with corporate social responsibility (CSR) that is a related field in order to define business ethics as a discipline.Recently, behavioral ethics based on experimental researches has caught attention as a new approach, because it will be able to complement normative ethics which is traditional approach in this field. Business ethics research may be a potential area to develop as an interdisciplinary field. One of the issues is how business ethics research may recognize and justify CSR activities to solve the environmental problems and poverty in the world.