Positive economics and the normativistic fallacy: Bridging the two sides of CSR

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 297-329

  Schreck, Philipp ^a   Van Aaken, Dominik ^a   Donaldson, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate Social Responsibility; Normative ethics; Philosophy of science; Political CSR; Positive economics; Practical syllogism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880403144     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq201323218     Document Type: Article

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