ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the presentation of the schools and of the theories of German and European business ethics that can be considered as cosmopolitan accomplishments of the concepts of ethical responsibility, ethical economy, and order ethics in the international community. Republican business ethics can be interpreted from a cosmopolitan perspective as a vision of social peace in the international community. Integrative economic ethics focuses on the importance of political deliberations and democratic regulations of business. Governance ethics extends values-driven management to institutional dimensions of business, and finally, with the idea of business ethics and world ethos, we find the extension of economics ethics toward global business ethics. The republican position considers the role of law as very important for the institutionalization of business ethics norms in society. Integrative business ethics starts with the philosopher Jürgen Habermas' analysis of the division of system and life-world in modernity.
