This book provides essential reading for anyone with an academic or professional interest in business ethics today.

This article analyzes several characteristic features of moral systems viewed as cultural realities. Moralities are viewed as historically transmitted languages of persuasion, by means of which persons communicate expectations and demands. For purpose of comparative studies, the article proposes that moral systems be analyzed in relation to their typical patterns of moral reasoning, moral meanings, social functions, and moral authority. The article examines several analytical typologies for comparing these constituitive dimensions of moral systems.