Unethical Research Practices Unethical research is commonly found within pharmaceutical companies. In a hurry to get new drugs to market, companies will often cut corners during the research process. Pharmaceutical companies will spend millions of dollars on drug research, but very little on unethical drug promotion (Parmar, Jalees, 2004). The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader of how unethical research practices can lead to death from both past and present case studies. Present Rizwan
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Project Research Paper RES/351 Teyronn Jackson Julie Bonner Project Research Paper Today, there is a growing need for more skilled maintainers to perform maintenance on military aircraft. There are multiple airframes and platforms across the military that are suffering from not having the manpower to support the maintenance needs that are required for the daily upkeep of these sophisticated weapons systems. We intend to address this growing concern by analyzing the needs based on the airframe
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Business Research Ethics Cynthia Debose RES/351 April 29, 2013 University of Phoenix Dr. Julie Bonner 2. The article chosen from the University Library to evaluate the practice of unethical business research conduct is called Flacking for Big Pharma written by Harriet A. Washington. The article delves into the activities of “Big Pharma,” or the commercial pharmaceutical industry of the United States. In this article the author highlights some market strategies used by the industry, which
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Business Research Ethics RES351 January 18, 2013 Business Research Ethics Proper business research is designed to reduce the risk of a management decision. Unfortunately, unethical business research occurs in all types of business circumstances. This type of practice increases risk for the individuals, companies, environments, and technologies involved (Cooper & Schindler, 2011). Several companies within the pharmaceutical industry have been found guilty of unethical practices. Pfizer Inc
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Business Research Ethics Javier Res 351 December, 2013 Business Research Ethics Unethical behaviors and practices in corporate America cause many faces to frown. This only causes the public to question why a number of people run their business with true honestly. Whereas, the other half run an entire business to the ground by attempting to fraud their customers and lie to the public about certain issues regarding the way they practice business. Another example of unethical practices would
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Business research practices should remain ethical at all times. It is important to adhere to ethical norms because they promote values that are essential to collaborative work, they build public support, and they promote a variety of important moral and social values such as human rights, compliance with law, and health and safety (Resnick, 2013). Ethic is the moral principles that govern a person’s behavior. When we think of ethics in business research the hospital is the last place one would think
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Running head: BUSINESS RESEARCH ETHICS 1 Business Research Ethics RES 351 February 28, 2013 BUSINESS RESEARCH ETHICS 2 Business Research Ethics Before the debt crisis of 2008 exploded, one of the two American banks that backed a large portion of United States mortgages was fined in 2006 because of improper accounting practices. Ethics are a set of standards derived by individual or company ideals of what is right and wrong. Looking back, it should have been clear the poor ethics
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Medical research is an important step in gaining new knowledge about how the human body functions and to develop new medicines to combat diseases. Working with human participants during a clinical trial involves a certain set of ethics as the lives of the participants are at stake. In 1999, one of the largest and most prestigious medical research facilities, Duke University Medical Center, had federal funds temporarily suspended as an investigation into the research process was conducted (Weiss,
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Business Research Project Ethical Issues Amber Valles Res/351 Business Research Project Ethical Issues Research Project Summary Ethics while carrying out a research should always be observed by the researcher and the study participants. This paper seeks to look at ethical practices that should be observed by the Williams Company as it undertake a business research on the factors that determines the customers buying behaviours of the products that it offers in various different market segments
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Business Research Ethics The individual assignment for this week asked the students to find an article within the University Library that discusses unethical business research conduct that has resulted in individuals or firm being convicted, or at least tried. I have found and read a newspaper journal titled "Unethical workers and illegal acts," which is a study of workers, managers, and executives, where 48% of them admitted to unethical or illegal acts since year 1996. What unethical research
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