Four design criteria for any future contractarian theory of business ethics

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 697-714

  Wempe, Ben ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contractarianism; Integrative Social Contracts Theory; Theories of business ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 48349142518     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-007-9542-x     Document Type: Article

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