Business Ethics: Moral or Amoral? An analysis from the perspective of Kantian ethics

The aim of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon related business ethical purposes from a different perspective, using philosophical lens developed by Immanuel Kant. This work also oriented identify most important research topics ethics through combination framework. present intends offer conceptual contribution ongoing debate on theme in corporate social responsibility, highlighting main problematic aspects that emerge analysis literature and observation reality light framework paper, therefore, examines applies deontological view Kant his distinction between ‘categorical’ ‘hypothetic’ imperative. useful prevent instrumental acceptance codes sustainability reports; fact, during making work, several well-known practices are presented, which far behaving moral way (i.e., General Electrics, Lehman Brothers, so on).