Applying Rawlsian approaches to resolve ethical issues: Inventory and setting of a research agenda

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-143

  Doorn, Neelke ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Applied ethics; Conflicting values; Ethical methodology; Justification; Overlapping consensus; Rawls; Wide reflective equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149086625     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0073-5     Document Type: Article

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