An Economic Approach to Business Ethics: Moral Agency of the Firm and the Enabling and Constraining Effects of Economic Institutions and Interactions in a Market Economy
The paper maps out an alternative to a behavioural (economic) approach to business ethics. Special attention is paid to the fundamental philosophical principle that any moral ‘ought’ implies a practical ‘can’, which the paper interprets with regard to the economic viability of moral agency of the fi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2005
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2005, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-89 |
| Further subjects: | B
economic viability
B incentive ethics B Stakeholders B ethical capital B passive moral agency / Active |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |