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Making Business Ethics Practical

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Gerald F. Cavanagh ,
Dennis J. Moberg  and
Manuel Velasquez
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Abstract:

Our critics confuse the role normative ethical theory can take in business ethics. We argue that as a practical discipline, business ethics must focus on norms, not the theories from which the norms derive. It is true that our original work is defective, but not in its form, but in its neglect of contemporary advances in feminist ethics.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 399 - 418
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1995

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