Moral agency, profits and the firm: Economic revisions to the friedman theorem

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-220

  Wagner Tsukamoto, Sigmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active passice moral agency; Economic analysis; Ethical capital; Friedman theorem; Stakeholder theory; Three levels of moral agency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846114321     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9106-5     Document Type: Article

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