Industry and Chain Responsibilities and Integrative Social Contracts Theory
This article shows that business ethics is not capable of explaining the responsibility of limited organised collectives such as chains, sectors and industries. The responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry to make AIDS blockers available for patients in Africa is an example of such a sector res...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2009
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 88, Issue: 4, Pages: 751-764 |
| Further subjects: | B
Integrative Social Contracts Theory
B Social Contract B Stakeholder Theory B moral free space B Hypernorms |
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| Summary: | This article shows that business ethics is not capable of explaining the responsibility of limited organised collectives such as chains, sectors and industries. The responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry to make AIDS blockers available for patients in Africa is an example of such a sector responsibility. By using system theory, it is possible to understand responsibility at the level of a social system. The Integrative Social Contracts Theory has been extended to determine this system’s responsibility. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0327-2 |