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Sweatshops, Harm, and Interference: A Contractualist Approach
Activists and progressive governments sometimes interfere in the working conditions of sweatshops. Their methods may include boycotts of the products...
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Sweatshops and Free Action: The Stakes of the Actualism/Possibilism Debate for Business Ethics
Whether an action is morally right depends upon the alternative acts available to the agent. Actualists hold that what an agent would actually do...
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The Separation Thesis Weighs Heavily on Integrative Social Contracts Theory: A Comprehensive Critique
For more than three decades, Integrative Social Contracts Theory (ISCT) has been lauded as a business ethics theory particularly well suited to the...
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Market and Morality
To what extent does the market exhibit moral and ethical behavior? Are the results of the market moral and what are the effects of so-called market... -
Putting the Law in Its Place: Business Ethics and the Assumption that Illegal Implies Unethical
Many business ethicists assume that if a type of conduct is illegal, then it is also unethical. This article scrutinizes that assumption, using the...
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“Human Quality Treatment”: Five Organizational Levels
Quality is commonly applied to products and processes, but we can also define human quality in dealing with people. This requires first establishing...
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A Moral Pluralist Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility: From Good to Controversial Practices
This study starts from the observation that there are relatively few controversial issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Given its strong...
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Scholastic Thought and Business Ethics: An Overview
The generic name “Scholasticism” covers a number of thinkers who lived and wrote between the eleventh and mid-seventeenth centuries in western... -
Advancing Integrative Social Contracts Theory: A Habermasian Perspective
We critically assess integrative social contracts theory (ISCT) and show that the concept particularly lacks of moral justification of substantive...