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OTHER KEY CONCEPTS RELATED TO BUSINESS ETHICS

Corporate Governance
Corporate governance refers to the oversight of company operations by bodies (e.g., board of directors) that bear the responsibility to oversee, direct, and evaluate company operations on behalf of the company’s investors.

For more information on corporate governance, please visit the Bibliography and Links pages in the Resources section of this site.

Stakeholder Theory
Stakeholder theory provides an important tool for identifying the interested parties of a business, the responsibilities the business has to those interested parties, the interactions between the business and its stakeholders, etc. More practically, stakeholder theory can serve as an important management tool, assisting managers to consider the consequences of their decisions before making them and their actions before taking them.

For more information on stakeholder theory, please visit the Bibliography and Links pages in the Resources section of this site.

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