Business Ethics: Exploring Big Data and Tax Avoidance

Explore the ethical complexities of big data and tax avoidance

Ethical behaviour brings significant benefits to businesses such as attracting employees, customers and investors. But failure to manage it properly can create huge challenges.

On this course, you’ll discover big data and tax avoidance.

You’ll examine the benefits and ethical challenges inherent to big data, including the issues of privacy and data security.

You’ll learn what tax avoidance is and discover how globalisation is increasing the likelihood of its occurrence.

You’ll also hear from experts on key ethical arguments for and against tax avoidance as you work through prominent case studies.

This course is designed for anyone interested in exploring two of the biggest business ethics problems.

The course will be useful for professionals working in small or larger organisations but also for anyone studying business or ethics at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

• Big data
• Welcome
• Big data and the law
• Exploring the value of big data
• Identifying the ethical challenges raised by big data use
• Summary
• Tax avoidance
• About Week 2
• Exploring tax avoidance
• Can task avoidance be justified?
• Identifying the ethical problems of tax avoidance
• Summary