Volume 44, Issue 2, Summer 2025
Global Survey of Business Ethics 2022¨C2024 Reports from Europe, Part 2
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Pages 259-280
https://doi.org/10.5840/bpej2025811174
Denmark
Reports from Europe, Global Survey of Business Ethics 2022¨C2024
The article presents the development of business ethics in Denmark in recent years. As a small open economy well-integrated in the Europea Union, the case of Denmark represents a view on business ethics that has been very open to integration and development of international promotion of business ethics. Even though the concept of business ethics less used, Danish law makers and businesses do a lot to ensure responsible and ethical business at all levels of society. Businesses have prioritized partnership on social impact of business. Key concerns of business ethics in this context include sustainable development, sustainable development goals (SDGs), corporate social responsibility, ESG, the UN Global Compact, OECD-Guidelines, business and human rights, EU due diligence directives, including CSRD and CSDD. Thus, business ethics in Denmark is characterized by a strong focus on the responsible, political corporation by integrating international standards and sustainable development goals in business operations and strategies.