| anticompetitive behavior | Behavior aimed at harming actual or potential competitors, most often by using monopoly power.
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| business ethics | Accepted principles of right or wrong governing the conduct of businesspeople.
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| environmental degradation | Taking actions that directly or indirectly result in pollution or other forms of environmental harm.
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| ethical dilemmas | Situations in which there is no agreement over exact accepted principles of right and wrong.
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| information manipulation | Situations in which managers use their control over corporate data to distort or hide information to enhance their own financial situations or the competitive position of the firm.
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| justice theories | Theories that focus on attaining a just distribution of economic goods and services.
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| opportunistic exploitation | Unilaterally rewriting the terms of a contract with suppliers, distributors, or complement providers in a way that is more favorable to a firm, often using its power to force the revision through.
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| rights theories | The view that human beings have fundamental rights and privileges.
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| self-dealing | Situations in which managers find a way to feather their own nests with corporate funds.
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| social responsibility | A sense of obligation on the part of managers to build certain social criteria into their decision making.
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| substandard working conditions | Tolerating unsafe working conditions or paying employees below-market rates to reduce costs of production.
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| stakeholder | An individual, institution, or community that has a stake in the operations of an organization and in how it does business.
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| utilitarian approach | The view that the moral worth of actions or practices is determined by their consequences.
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