RT Article
T1 Foundations and Applications for Contractualist Business Ethics
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 68
IS 3
SP 211
OP 228
A1 Heugens, Pursey P. M. A. R.
A1 van Oosterhout, J. (Hans)
A1 Kaptein, Muel
A2 van Oosterhout, J. (Hans)
A2 Kaptein, Muel
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785626442
AB Contractualism is one of the most promising ‘centers of gravity’ in business ethics. In this guest editorial we provide a concise roadmap to the field, sketching contractualism’s historic and disciplinary antecedents, the basic argumentative structure of the contract model, and its boundary conditions. We also sketch two main dimensions along which contributions to the contractualist tradition can be positioned. The first dimension entails positive versus normative theorizing – does a given contribution analyze the world as it is or how it ought to be? The second dimension involves four different levels of analysis that are commonly employed in contractualist business ethics: the nano, micro, meso, and macro levels. We then proceed to position the articles comprising this special issue along these two dimensions.
K1 Multi-level analysis
K1 Integrative Social Contracts Theory
K1 Contractualism
K1 Contractarianism
K1 boundary characteristics
K1 behavioral characteristics
DO 10.1007/s10551-006-9011-y