The actual economic global slowdown poses many challenging issues to rethink about how CSR and business ethics can help in understanding the role of business organizations in the market, their purposes and their responsibility toward stakeholders and society at large. Since 2008 when the crisis broke out, academics, politicians and practitioners have tried to illustrate the main drivers of this slowdown. Even if a number of technical reasons related to economic and regulatory decisions have been identified, the abundant literature produced has emphasized the possibility that a lack of values lies at the core of the crisis and the amorality of business needs to be confronted.