Beyond Profit and Politics: Reciprocity and the Role of For-Profit Business

Standard accounts of reciprocal citizenship hold that citizens have a duty to participate in politics. Against this, several business ethicists and philosophers have recently argued that people can satisfy their obligations of civic reciprocity non-politically, by owning, managing, or working in for...

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Main Author: Brown, Brookes (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2019
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 159, Issue: 1, Pages: 239-251
Further subjects:B Reciprocity
B Civic Virtue
B Political Obligation
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