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Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha: A Business Ethics Paradigm

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Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha is a particular philosophy and philosophical practice and was developed and practiced in the non-violent resistance movement. Its relevance of Business Ethics lie at least on three accounts. One, is that the roots of its emergence are economic in nature, i.e., an economic elite, white South Africans, were threatened by the burgeoning number and the upscaling economic prosperity of supposedly their inferiors, the Indian immigrants. Second, that numerous Satyagraha movements led by Gandhi in India, were actually against well-entrenched business or economic players. And third, Satyagraha, as Gandhi himself have shown, itself can become a potent force of resistance even against powerfully-entrenched economic powers.

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  1. Philosophy Department, School of Arts and Sciences, Ateneo De Davao University, E. Jacinto Street, Davao City, Philippines

    Jose Maria Ybanez Tomacruz

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Tomacruz, J.M.Y. (2013). Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha: A Business Ethics Paradigm. In: Rothlin, S., Haghirian, P. (eds) Dimensions of Teaching Business Ethics in Asia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36022-0_8

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