Exactly two hundred years ago, French revolutionist Jacques Rene Herbert pronounces: "everywhere and all times men of commerce have had neither heart nor soul; their cash box is their god.........they traffic in all things, even human flesh". Considering the going rate of flesh trade "six well-fed cows for a girl from Bangladesh", and the comment put forward by the Novel Laureate Professor Milton Friedman regarding the business ethics - "fundamentally subversive theory to a free and democratic society" - it appears that, in today's so called civilized world property is more precious than life. This short paper deals with the same.
The paper does not offer any theory nor does even provide an intense doctrinal dispute and intellectual debate about the business ethics. The paper simply provides a recount of how the corporate social responsibility has been transgressed across the globe. Based on the available statistics and evidences, the paper also presents some of the prevailing deplorable scenarios regarding unethical business practices that have been taking place in Bangladesh.
If business ethics is concerned with the right and wrong or good and evil dimensions of business decision-making, then on the basis of recorded information on unethical business practices of ours, we can conclude, Bangladesh is a society in which distortion of business ethics is legitimate and it has embezzled the ethical embellishment of business in the meantime.