ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the issues of the international importance of the business ethics theories and it also addresses the concept of cosmopolitanism addressed in the different concepts of business ethics of the theories. It examines the concept of business ethics at the micro-, macro-, and meso-levels of society in order to look at the particularities of each school of business ethics. The ethics of responsibility was, as already mentioned, developed by the German-Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas with his book The Imperative of Responsibility, written in the United States, to which Jonas had emigrated during the Second World War. The ethics of responsibility can be combined with the study of responsibility in particular cases of business ethics or other fields of ethics, for example, whistle-blowing in information ethics. The approach of order ethics to the problem of institutionalization of moral norms in the international community in times of globalization is a search for an ethics that combines self-interest with regulative frameworks.
