How have new technologies affected ethical issues in businesses?
New technologies have impacted business because information is more easily accessible and more universally available. I remember someone saying that it is not that there is more crime today, it is just that there are more reporters. Technology has made news about scandals mainstream and more available to public scrutiny than ever. There is no hiding anymore. New technologies have made things more transparent. There are also more preventive mechanisms in place. The stock market crash about 80 years ago may not happen today because we have mechanisms in place that warn us early of potential problems. This is the salutatory effect of technology. SATINDER DHIMAN is associate dean of business and a professor of management at Woodbury University. Reach him at satinder.dhiman@woodbury.edu or (818) 252-5138.
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