NUCB's mission is to educate innovative and ethical leaders who possess a ʻFrontier Spiritʼ and to create knowledge that advances business and society. As one of the core courses of a leading globally engaged school, this course aims to underpin NUCB's mission and future purpose for educating ethical leaders.

This course examines business from an ethical perspective. In particular, it explores the existence of corporations in liberal democracies; ethical concerns surrounding multinational corporations and globalisation; various issues of theoretical and applied ethics; and the management of business ethics. The main concepts and theories underpinning the business ethics field will be introduced, and you will have the opportunity to use these in understanding business related issues. Considerable emphasis will be placed on student participation in class, with the aim of promoting ethical reflection on the many important issues that surround business-society relations. Ultimately, the aim of the course is to enable you to recognise and reflect upon complex ethical problems with a view to enhancing your analytical, decision-making, and managerial skills.

By taking part in this course, students will be able to recognize moral issues in business decisions, analyze the benefits and harms brought by business decisions on different stakeholder groups, and devise strategies to respond to ethical dilemmas in businesses as well as measures to prevent unethical actions and behaviors from happening. Finally, students will be able to debate systematically with multi-sided understanding of international management on business ethics.

*本学の教育ミッションを具現化する形で設定されています。

Specifically, this course develops a knowledge and understanding of:

- Ethical theory
- Divergence of business and business ethics (e.g., West vs. Asia)
- Business ethics and institutional dynamics
- Issues of applied ethics
- The private and public political environment of corporations
- Managing business ethics

The course develops the following intellectual skills:

- The cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis, including the ability to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, to detect false logic or reasoning, to identify implicit values, and to define terms adequately and to generalise appropriately.
- Effective qualitative problem solving and decision making skills.
- The ability to create, evaluate and access a range of options, together with the capacity to apply ideas and knowledge to a range of business and other situations.
- Understanding of the link between theoretical and empirical work on international business.
- The ability to research both country and case-study material

This course develops these professional and practical skills:

- Qualitative research skills.
- The ability to apply ethical theory to business problems and phenomena.
- Self awareness, openness and sensitivity to diversity in terms of people, cultures, business and management issues.
- Effective performance within a team environment, including leadership, team building, influencing and project management skills.
- The ability to conduct research into business and management issues, either individually or as part of a team, including a familiarity with a range of business data and research resources and appropriate methodologies.

教育手法 Teaching Method		% of Course Time
インプット型 Traditional		10 %
参加者中心型 Participant-Centered Learning	ケースメソッド Case Method	90 %
	フィールドメソッド Field Method	0 %
合計 Total		100 %

Course prerequisites
Participants should allow at least 3 hours of preparation time per case.
Even though this course does not use a textbook, the students will learn theories, notions and models in the field of business ethics and global corporate social responsibility.

Preparation report
Students should familiarise themselves with the cases and be ready for classroom debates.
Student should submit the preparation report based on the assignment questions for each case.
Submission method : via Google Classroom.
Submission deadline: Before the class begin (by 08:00AM)

Final Case Study Report (Individual)
Deadline: To be announced on the first class day.

*It is your responsibility to familiarise yourself fully with University Regulations concerning plagiarism and other forms of unacceptable and unfair practice.
*Some cases may be changed before the course starts.

*成績は下記該当項目を基に決定されます。
*クラス貢献度合計はコールドコールと授業内での挙手発言の合算値です。

講師用内規準拠 Method of Assessment	Weights
コールドコール Cold Call	10 %
授業内での挙手発言 Class Contribution	60 %
クラス貢献度合計 Class Contribution Total	70 %
予習レポート Preparation Report	10 %
小テスト Quizzes / Tests	0 %
シミュレーション成績 Simulation	0 %
ケース試験 Case Exam	0 %
最終レポート Final Report	20 %
期末試験 Final Exam	0 %
参加者による相互評価 Peer Assessment	0 %
合計 Total	100 %

評価の留意事項　Notes on Evaluation Criteria

• NA「NA」NA（NA）

BOOKS:
1) Crane, A., Matten, D., Glozer, S., & Spence, L. (2019). Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization. Oxford University Press. (ISBN: 9780198810070)

2) Rasche, A., Morsing, M., Moon, J., & Kourula, A. (2023). Corporate Sustainability: Managing Responsible Business in a Globalised World. Cambridge University Press. (ISBN (Print) 9781009100403, 9781009114929; ISBN (Electronic) 9781009118644)

Teaching this course for the first time.

Refereed Articles

• (2025) Japan's militarization: from reactive to proactive antimilitarist strategic culture. RSIS Theses
• (2024) Civil-Military Relations and Antimilitarism in Japan After the End of the Cold War. International Journal of Military History and Historiography Advance Articles 2468-3302