Christoph Lütge is Full Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at Technical University of Munich (TUM). He has a background in philosophy and business informatics, having taken his PhD at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1999 and his habilitation at the University of Munich (LMU) in 2005. Lütge has held visiting positions at Harvard, University of Pittsburgh, University of California (San Diego), Taipei, Kyoto and Venice. He is a member of the Scientific Board of the European AI Ethics initiative 'AI4People' as well as of the German Ethics Commission on Automated and Connected Driving.

Matthias Uhl is Junior Research Group Leader at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics and obtained his PhD in Economics in 2011 at the University of Jena, Germany. Afterwards, he worked for five years as a postdoc at the Chair of Business Ethics at TUM. He received his habilitation in philosophy there in 2019. His main research interests are in behavioural ethics, experimental economics, business ethics, and the ethics of digitization.

• Introduction


• 1: Business Ethics in the Age of Globalization


• 2: Basic Concepts


• 3: Historical-Economic Background: Pre-Modernity and Modernity


• 4: Foundations and Tools of Business Ethics


• 5: Problem Areas of Business Ethics


• 6: Corporate Ethics


• Conclusion


• Glossary