RT Article
T1 A Critique of the Empirical Methods of Integrative Social Contracts Theory
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 20
IS 3
SP 227
OP 235
A1 Husted, Bryan W.
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 1999
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785612506
AB Integrative social contracts theory (ISCT) uses empirical methods to develop guidelines for international business ethics. This article criticizes ISCT in terms of the way people actually think about contracts and agreements around the globe. Differences in orientations to communications context, moral reasoning, and institutional and structural conditions make the identification of authentic norms, hypernorms, and relevant communities problematic. The difficulties of the empirical methods suggest recourse to more traditional theoretical approaches for the identification of hypernorms as well as a stronger test for the compatibility of authentic norms with hypernorms.
K1 Moral Reasoning
K1 Structural Condition
K1 Theoretical Approach
K1 Business Ethic
K1 Economic Growth
DO 10.1023/A:1005843230170