Corporations and the third way Sally Wheeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheeler, Sally, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporation law.

Social responsibility of business.

Business ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Corporations & the third way

Place of Publication:

Oxford Portland, Oregon Hart Publishing 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction

1 Towards a New Capitalism

2 Aristotle, Virtue Ethics and the Corporate World

3 Virtue Ethics for the Third Millennium

4 Conclusion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9786611042189

9781472559173

1472559177

9781281042187

1281042188

9781847313362

1847313361

OCLC:

476111431