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Duke Law

1999

Business ethics

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Comment On Dunfee, A. A. Sommer Jr. Jul 1999

Comment On Dunfee, A. A. Sommer Jr.

Law and Contemporary Problems

Sommer comments on the framework provided by Dunfee in which managers can make rational--and rationalized--decisions as to when ethical considerations may supersede shareholder interests.


Banded Contracts, Mediating Institutions, And Corporate Governance: A Naturalist Analysis Of Contractual Theories Of The Firm, Timothy L. Fort, James J. Noone Jul 1999

Banded Contracts, Mediating Institutions, And Corporate Governance: A Naturalist Analysis Of Contractual Theories Of The Firm, Timothy L. Fort, James J. Noone

Law and Contemporary Problems

Fort and Noone relate business ethics to notions of transcendence found in nature and anthropology. They address the notion of contracts within corporate legal theory because contracts are used as a model both by those who advocate minimalist, agency business duties and by others who propound a broad business ethic.


Corporate Governance In A Market With Morality, Thomas W. Dunfee Jul 1999

Corporate Governance In A Market With Morality, Thomas W. Dunfee

Law and Contemporary Problems

Dunfee analyzes the implications for corporate governance of the existence of morality within consumer and capital markets. Analysis of the role of moral desires within markets represents a new way of looking at the long-standing debate concerning the social responsibility of corporations.