ABSTRACT
At the end of this book with its very diverse range of contributions in which we have delved into the implications of an ethical approach across a very wide range of business and management studies disciplines, it will be useful to draw some of the very diverse strands and lines of thinking together in some sort of synthesis. The purpose of this epilogue chapter is therefore threefold: first, through a quick summary of the applications of an ethical approach across most of the business disciplines, to show that business ethics, far from being a merely peripheral concern or afterthought, deserves to be given a central place across all of the various business specialisms, not only in theory but perhaps above all in practice. We will show how this represents a very fundamental challenge to the discipline of strategic management, at least as it has been taught in a wide range of business schools over the past 30 years.
