Business Research Ethics
CHARLES BEDELL
RES/351
0CT-08-2012
Dr Debra Bacon

Business Research Ethics Webster’s Dictionary defines ethics as a set of moral principles: a theory or system of moral values.”(Merriam-Webster, 2011) Every person has ethics that he or she lives by and sometimes in the business world many unethical business transaction occur. The idea of an unethical business practices to gain a statistical advantage is not a new idea. As the countries economy grows the population begins to see more unethical results. The way this is done is my taking the information that is given about certain product or service and misrepresenting it make it look like a great choice. As the economies begin to boom these practices are often seen more often. I would like to do my paper on the medical research practices. The organization I would like to talk about or evaluate is a pharmaceutical organization that began working with a college professor which he was doing a research project which he was working on a medicine that is related to the drug called influenza. (Dominick &Wimmer, 2010).As part of the business arrangement, the professor requested that research remains confidential and that no one or other parties were to be privy to their finding. The organization agreed to withhold the research and was therefore engaging in unethical research behavior. The pharmaceutical organization withholding research to make sure that acquired larger profits. The victims or injured parties of this unethical research behavior are the people afflicted with influenza, the patients and the professor or business. By withholding their research the pharmaceutical organization was trying to avoid sharing the benefits of the new information with developing counties, and I believe the strategy implement by the pharmaceutical organization was to share their research and