Business Ethics and Digitization

In this collection, we bring together various disciplines that are critically engaged in reflecting the diverse aspects of digitization in business, politics, ethics, and education. Accordingly, the volume will provide a provocative discourse space, were the key theoretical and practical problems of implementing ethics in digitization will be discussed and assessed. Moreover, we aim to create a bridge between two (hitherto) mostly separate discourses: the ethical discourse of issues of digitization and the discourse on ethical standards and their implementation in the area of business. These discourses are greatly in need of being joined together, since the vast majority of ethical standards in the field of digitization will have to be implemented by companies, not government agencies, NGOs or other non-profit organisations. We believe that this particular selection of articles is a first step towards creating this bridge.

Chapter I Business Ethics for the Digital Era.- Chapter II Digitalization and Business Ethics for a Cyber Peace.- Chapter III Artificial General Intelligence in Human Interface – Its Impact on Society and Human Being.- Chapter IV Digital Communication in and beyond Organizations – A Path to Hyperinclusion.- Chapter V Categorization of Risk Management: Clinical Research and Global Justice.- Chapter VI Digitization, Unemployment, and Distributive Justice.- Chapter VII Use of Soviet constructivism experience in urban planning of a contemporary city for digitized society.- Chapter VIII Outline of Ethical Issues Concerning Government, Business and Information Technologies.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Lütge is director of the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI), founded in 2019 at the Technical University of Munich and holds the Peter-Löscher Endowed Chair of Business Ethics. Prof. Dr. Lütge conducts research in the field of business ethics and investigates ethical agency under the conditions of globalization and digitization. In specific, he explores regulatory ethics – ethical behavior in the socio-economic framework of a globalized world.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Uhl is professor for "social implications and ethical aspects of AI" at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt. Prof. Dr. Uhl's research concentrates on ethics of digitization and business ethics. Further research interests are experimental ethics, experimental economics and behavioral economics as well as the theory of science.

Alexander Kriebitz is a political scientist, who studies the overlap of international law, business ethics and international relations. His current project is a re-examination of literature on Business and Human Rights and the division of labor between states and companies in fulfilling human rights responsibilities. To this end, Alexander Kriebitz published research articles in the Business and Human Rights Journal and in the Human Rights Review.

Raphael Max is an economist with a philosophical background who studies political, economic and social conditions of human behavior in a modern globalized world. A particular focus of his research is the discrepancy between moral judgment and human action. Raphael’s current project is the analysis of the normative perception of economic activities under uncertainty and moral evaluation of investment decisions.