The Narrow Application of Rawls in Business Ethics: A Political Conception of Both Stakeholder Theory and the Morality of Markets

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 563-579

  Cohen, Marc A ^a  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Moral Markets approach; organizational ethics; Rawls; social contract theory; stakeholder theory (normative foundations)

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649837180     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0525-y     Document Type: Article

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