Business Ethics as Self-Regulation: Why Principles that Ground Regulations Should Be Used to Ground Beyond-Compliance Norms as Well

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 102, Issue SUPPL., 2011, Pages 43-57

  Norman, Wayne ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond compliance obligations; Business ethics; Corporate citizenship; Corporate social responsibility; Market failure; Regulation; Self regulation; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858704035     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1193-2     Document Type: Article

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