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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966433203321

Autore

Wheeler Sally

Titolo

Corporations and the third way / Sally Wheeler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2002

ISBN

9786611042189

9781472559173

1472559177

9781281042187

1281042188

9781847313362

1847313361

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Disciplina

346/.066

Soggetti

Corporation law

Social responsibility of business

Business ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1 Towards a New Capitalism -- 2 Aristotle, Virtue Ethics and the Corporate World -- 3 Virtue Ethics for the Third Millennium -- 4 Conclusion

Sommario/riassunto

The search for an ethical foundation for corporate behaviour has been a powerful theme of scholarship in company law since the middle of the last century. In an era of social democracy the search has intensified, fuelled by the demise of the new right both in economic and social terms. The author of this path-breaking and provocative work argues that third way politics offers a means of identifying that foundation by emphasizing the need for social co-operation and partnership through shared agendas rather than regulatory pressure. In contrast to many contemporary "globalization" theorists the author argues that corporations are in fact profoundly concerned with national political and social agendas rather than global ones. The reasons for the demise of the new right are intimately connected with the position of



corporations within civil society. Corporations have little choice but to become involved with third way politics and its accompanying social agendas. These ideas are traced through into a blueprint for corporate behaviour which looks at Aristotelian ethics as a way of creating a position for the corporation which permits the goal of profit to be placed alongside others such as community participation. These goals, it is argued, can be achieved through an ethics of care approach