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Giving ethics the business

Colin Grant

Journal of Business Ethics · 1988 · Volume 7 · Issue 7

DOI: 10.1007/BF00382595

Abstract

The criminal conviction of Amway Corporation for evasion of Canadian customs duties not only belies the high ethical profession of its president, Richard DeVos, but his reissuing of the book which makes this profession, without mentioning the conviction, supports the view that ultimately ethics and business are pulling in opposite directions.

Keywords

Economic Growth, Opposite Direction, Ethical Profession, Criminal Conviction, Custom Duty

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