This analysis was, not surprisingly, widely ignored. A teaching on values in business should be tied to teachings about work motivation, quality production, initiatives, innovation and entrepreneurship. Virtue'' is the concept which makes ethics workable. It comes from traditional Western culture. Plato wrote on the cardinal virtues before they appeared in the Bible, in the book of Isaiah.
Business ethics chic never mentions the virtues.
True business ethics should translate into dynamic businesses as indeed is the case in many small firms across the land who reflect the values of their top managers and have not hired PC experts. This is also possible when a traditional, Aristotelian-Thomistic, approach is used to teach ethics along with managerial skills in businesses, releasing in people their most powerful and creative energies as discovered by Western civilization. Japan does not have any PC-type business ethics. Japanese have a very traditional view of work. Japanese employees are not confused with different approaches to ethics.