For many, the term "business ethics" is a contradiction in terms: after all, the economy is considered to be the area in which moral action and adherence to normative guidelines are at best irrelevant, but generally conflict with the realisation of personal and corporate goals.

In contrast, we take the view that ethics and economics are not opposites, but complement each other. This happens neither by subordinating the economic sphere to the political, nor by redefining economics as "better ethics". The task of economic ethics is rather to integrate ethical norms into the economic paradigm in a coherent manner. Economic efficiency is thus a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for a fair economic and social order.

A special task of the professorship is to introduce the economic approach into the ethical conception of Catholic social teaching. Here the task is to analyze the implications of the social principles of "personality", "solidarity" and "subsidiarity" in the theory of justice and to apply these principles to social and corporate policy issues.

* These courses are offered within the framework of the Virtual University Bavaria (VHB). Please inform yourself in time about the exact schedule of these courses. 

** These courses are offered within the International Fall Term. These courses are therefore only offered in the first half of the winter semester and are already finished in December.

Theses

The Chair of Business and Corporate Ethics offers students the opportunity at any time to

• Bachelor theses or
• Master theses 

in the field of business ethics and social policy. The necessary proseminar does not have to have been taken at our chair.

Further information can be found here.

Information on the formal requirements:

• Bachelor thesis
• Master thesis 

If you are interested in writing a thesis, please contact Mr. Martin Mehl together with your current ToR (Transcript of Records). Please indicate whether you are interested in writing an empirical thesis.

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