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Paradigms Linked: A Normative-Empirical Dialogue about Business Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

M. S. Singer
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The present paper focuses on the linkage between two academic paradigms in the enquiry into business ethics: normative philosophy and empirical social sciences. The paper first reviews existing research pertaining to a normative-empirical dialogue. Further empirical data on the relationship between various standards of morality are discussed in relation to the normative frameworks of ethics. Lastly, future directions for such a dialogue in business ethics are suggested.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 1998, pp. 481 - 496
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1998

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