Business Ethics and the Information Age

What it means to enter the Information Age is understood differently by different people. The extent to which the world has entered the Information Age is hinted at by the Y2K phenomenon. As the world enters this new Age, it will face new ethical and business issues. Seven theses concerning this issue are presented, including: 1. the IT head in the sand syndrome, 2. the abdication of IT ethical responsibility, 3. surmounting the information nexus, 4. confronting the communication complex, and 5. the American information privacy schizophrenia. The upshot is that business ethicists have a whole range of issues to which they have scarcely turned their attention.