Ben and Jerry's: ethical or not

Extended Essay







Ben and Jerry’s: ethical or not?







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Extended essay

Abstract

In my extended essay I am tackling the question whether Ben and Jerry’s is an Ethical company. For that it was needed to outline what Ethics in Business in the first place means. I stated what a company can do to be possibly viewed as ethical. To compare the behaviour of Ben and Jerry’s with ethical norms I listed down various actions of Ben and Jerry’s which can be viewed as good (ethical) or bad (unethical) actions towards society. My conclusion then states that the company Ben and Jerry’s can be viewed as ethical since they do act in many areas and ways very responsible but on the other side they can be viewed as an unethical company since they failed in certain parts and didn’t stick to their mission statement which should not have happened and might happened accidentally. But in the e...