The Contained-Rivalry Requirement and a 'Triple Feature' Program for Business Ethics

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 167-182

  Martin, Dominic ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adversarial ethics; Competition; Cooperation; Market; Rivalry; Shareholder primacy; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879462679     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1369-4     Document Type: Article

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