ICT and ethics: some empirical evidences from Chandler’s lesson

Abstract

“The Visible Hand” (Chandler, 1977) described how a century ago customers suddenly found goods more plentiful
and cheap than they had ever been. The book showed the dramatic impact the railroads had on the modern
economy.
Although the transition started in the 1840s, its most visible changes occurred between 1880 and 1920. Mass
manufacturers of everything from typewriters to canned goods learned to bypass or swallow up the networks of
jobbers, factors, merchants, and other independent middlemen who had controlled the flow of commerce
throughout history. One of the fascinating aspects of “The Visible Hand” is the examination how innovation can
change the ethical behaviors in a corporate system or in a society.
From the Chandler’s lesson, this research wants to investigate about the potential correlations between innovation and ethics inside the Public Sector: with reference to the EU countries areas, following a Business Administration approach, the central part of the paper aims to aims to demonstrate an empirical correlation between these variables.