Navigating Our Way Between Market and State

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23131237
AutoresJ Allen Smith (Seattle University, autor correspondente), Jeffery Smith (0000-0002-7754-6568)
Ano2019
Volume29
Fascículo1
Páginas127-141
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBusiness Ethics Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1052-150X • E-ISSN: 2153-3326
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/beq.2018.40
OpenAlexW2902006107
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas41

In this address I argue that different perspectives on the normative foundations of corporate responsibility reflect underlying disagreements about the ideal arrangement of tasks between market and state. I initially recommend that scholars look back to the “division of moral labor” inspired by John Rawls’ seminal work on distributive justice in order to rethink why, and to what extent, corporations take on responsibilities normally within the purview of government. I then examine how this notion is related to recent theoretical work in the field of business ethics. I thereafter turn to provide a brief outline of an alternative view that sees corporations as having responsibilities in so far as markets are sites of delegated oversight over the production of social goods that might otherwise be administered by the state.

Business ethics · Distributive justice · Division of labour · Economic Justice · Economics · Field (mathematics) · Government (linguistics) · Ideal (ethics) · Law and economics · Market failure · Neoclassical economics · Normative · Order (exchange) · Political science · Positive economics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science) · Work (physics) · Free Will and Agency · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics