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The Normative/Descriptive Distinction in Methodologies of Business Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Patricia H. Werhane
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Abstract:

Most papers in this issue carefully analyze normative and empirical methodologies. I shall argue that (a) there is no purely empirical nor purely normative methodology; (b) some terms escape the division of the normative and descriptive. (c) Most importantly, dialogues such as this one point to a form of integration that allows us to reflect on what it is that each approach presupposes in its study of business ethics. Thus we have made progress in recognizing the importance of each methodology, how each is dependent on the other, and how neither is singularly The Approach to business ethics.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 1994, pp. 175 - 180
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1994

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