Utilitarian Ethics

Business Ethics 3825

Case of the Sole Remaining Supplier

Relevant stakeholders

Internal stakeholders

External stakeholders

Utilitarian ethics: Action plan

Desired aims

Specific Actions

Raising the quality control standards

Develop elaborate Standard installation and operation procedures (SIOP)

Right of revoking supply contract unilaterally in case of non-compliance to SIOP

Optimal good achieved

Case of the Sole Remaining Supplier

The case of 'sole remaining supplier' is regarding a firm that manufactures heart pacemakers. The pacemaker is a modern device that is used by the heart patients who have a medical problem of skipping heart beats. If regular heart beat (averagely after each 1.2 seconds) does not take place, the pacemaker stimulates the heart and it beats regularly. In its earliest years of invention, patients solely depended upon pacemaker whereas their own heart normal heartbeat was suspended. There were serious reservation in public, doctors, and the supplier company as to the...
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