With globalization, environmental problems and significant failures in corporate governance, business ethics is perceived to be of increasing importance. This is particularly so for IS because of the huge social effects of new technologies. Yet there has been relatively little discussion of ethics in the IS literature and no clear consensus has emerged. This paper argues that Habermas’s discourse ethics can make a major, and practical, contribution. After outlining some major ethical theories and how they have been interpreted in business ethics and IS, the paper details the development of discourse ethics. Discourse ethics is different from other approaches to ethics as it is grounded in actual debates between those affected by decisions and proposals. Recognizing that the theory is rather abstract, the final section discusses how it can be pragmatized, with the help of existing soft and critical methodologies, to become a basis for business and IS ethics. ud
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机译：随着全球化，环境问题和公司治理的重大失败，商业道德被视为越来越重要。由于新技术的巨大社会影响，对于IS来说尤其如此。但是，在IS文献中关于伦理学的讨论相对较少，也没有达成明确的共识。本文认为，哈贝马斯的话语伦理学可以做出重大而实际的贡献。在概述了一些主要的伦理理论以及如何在商业伦理和IS中对它们进行解释后，本文详细论述了话语伦理的发展。话语伦理学与其他伦理学方法不同，因为它是基于受决策和提议影响的人之间的实际辩论。最后一节认识到该理论是非常抽象的，因此讨论了如何在现有的软性和批判性方法的帮助下将其实用化，从而成为业务和IS道德的基础。 ud
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