ITM 102 Chapter 4: ITM102 - Chapter 4 (Textbook Notes)
5 Oct 2016
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Managers who violate the law and are convicted will more than likely spend time in prison o. Firms are now encouraged to cooperate with prosecutors to reduce charges against the entire firm for obstructing regulations o. Information systems were instrumental in many frauds o. Perpetrators artfully used financial reporting information systems to bury their decisions from public scrutiny in vain hope they would never be caught. Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that individuals, acting as free moral agents, use to make choices to guide their behaviours o. Information systems raise new ethical questions for both individuals and societies. They create new opportunities for intense social change. Threaten existing distributions of power, money, rights, and obligations. Ethics in is has been given new urgency by the rise of internet and e-commerce o. Ethical, social, and legal issues are closely linked. Five moral dimensions of the information age o.
