Why do we need a global ethics?

EENI- School of International Business

Sub-subject - Why do we need a global ethics? Syllabus:

  1. The necessity of a model of a global ethics
  2. Implications of global ethics in business and globalisation
  3. Some cases of businesspeople who apply models of global ethics:
    3. Srichand Hinduja (Founder of the Hinduja group. India. Hindu)
    7. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet (founders of the largest philanthropic initiative: the Giving Pledge, the United States, Agnostics)
  4. Final conclusions.
Sub-subject “Why do we need a global ethics?” is studied…
  1. Professional Master's Program in International Business
  2. Doctorate in Ethics, Religion, and Business (e-learning)

Learning materials in En or Es Ética Global FR Ethique

Global Ethics

Harmony of Religions Ahimsa Ethics

Sub-Subject Description: Why do we need a global ethics?

Worldwide crisis (financial, economics, and politics) -> need for a Global Ethics

How we have seen global ethics has to influence in

  1. International Business: “Towards an Ahimsa Company?”
  2. New model of Globalisation
  3. Science
  4. Education. Towards an education in values which transcends cultures:
  5. Politics
  6. Dialogue of religions and cultures

Global ethics influence on global business and globalisation.

1- International Business and Global Ethics.

a) International Marketing Strategies
Adapt globally with global ethics principles.

Impact on:

  2. Value Chain (Suppliers, Distributors, and Branch)
  3. People (Workers, Managers, and Directors) Code of Ethics.

Kiran Mazumdar
Ethics and Business

b) Trusted Relationships.

The increment of business and brand loyalty.

Azim Premji
Ethics Brand Loyalty

C) Avoid intercultural clashes.


d) Digital Economy. Google, Facebook.

Who define the limits of the privacy?

2- New model of globalisation.

Free market based on global ethics principles and respecting the environment and humanity.

Towards a Spiritual Capitalism and “Ahimsa Company”: the success of a company is measured by:

  2. Results: efficiency, profitability

Remember: Spiritual leaders are showing the path. Some world's Business leaders are developing their teachings.


To Hinduism.

Ethics Globalisation

To Buddhism.

Kazuo Inamori
Ethics Inamori

Buddhist Economics
Buddhist Economics

To Islam.

- Zakat (solidarity).

  1. The Zakat tax as the basis of Islamic fiscal policy.
  2. Quoted thirty-four times in the Quran.

The role of the banks in the global economy

  1. Under the Islamic Finance principles, a Bank cannot be a single lender who is not involved in the business; the Bank should be a financial partner.

Ethics Islam

Now I have just my dresses. I donated all my possessionsSulaiman Al-Rajhi is the founder of the one of the World's largest Islamic banks.

To Jainism.

Bhavarlal Hiralal Jain
Ethics Jainism

To Christianity.

Carlos Slim (the world's richest men)
Ethics Christian

To Agnostics.

Giving Pledge
Ethics Agnostics

The economy, finance, and politics have been globalised. Why not ethics?

History of humanity has bequeathed us through our ancestors these traditions of wisdom, these open windows to the understanding, that today, in the era of digitalisation; we can lose.


“Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?


“When the kindness declines
When the wickedness increases
When the purpose of the life is forgotten.
I will manifest, I will return.
To pronounce the sacred; to destroy the sin of the sinner

Ethics, business, and religion.