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Chapter 8
Prepared by Deborah Baker
Texas Christian University
Chapter 8-1
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BUSINESS ETHICS
and TECHNOLOGY
BUSINESS & SOCIETY
Ethics and Stakeholder Management
Carroll & Buchholtz 6e
Business and Society: Ethics and Stakeholder Management, 6e • Carroll & Buchholtz
Copyright ©2006 by South-Western, a division of Thomson Learning. All rights reserved
Chapter 8 Outcomes
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Identify the role that technology plays in business.
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Identify the benefits and side effects of technology in
business.
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Gain an appreciation of society’s intoxication with
technology and the consequences of this intoxication.
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Learn to differentiate between information technology
and biotechnology and their ethical implications.
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Identify the ethical issues involved in biotechnology and
present arguments on both sides of the issues.
Gain an understanding of the technological environment
and its relationship to ethics.
Chapter 8-2
Invasion of Privacy
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Identity theft
Unintentionally revealing information
Lost/stolen personal information
Fake Web sites
Government distribution of information
Broadcasting information over the Internet
Victim of spying
Cyberstalker
Chapter 8-3
Questionable Businesses and Practices
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Pornography
Gambling
Web-based music services
Intellectual property
Payment for web page placement
Monitoring technology
“Phishing”
Chapter 8-4
Selected Key Terms
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bioethics
biotechnology
chief privacy officer
cloning
electronic commerce
embryonic stem cells
ethical lag
genetic engineering
genetic profiling
Chapter 8-5
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genetic testing
genetically modified
foods
information technology
surveillance
technological
determinism
technological
environment
technology
therapeutic cloning