Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322628 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers Series No. 03-15
Publisher: 
Utrecht University, Utrecht School of Economics, Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute, Utrecht
Abstract: 
Integrative Social Contracts Theory (ISCT) is arguably the most promising theory of business ethics to date, but it is often criticized for its inability to produce substantive norms. Rather than abandoning the contractualist endeavor in business ethics altogether, we undertake to redeem it by exploring the internal morality of contracting. We demonstrate that substantive norms for guiding and constraining business conduct can be produced without relying on sources of normativity that are external to the contractualist framework
Subjects: 
Contractualism & contractarianism
Business ethics
Integrative social contracts theory
Internal morality
Institutional safeguards
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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