Give peace a chance: a mantra for business strategy
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The journalistic use of military imagery to describe business developments is only fitting since organizations are bent on applying a military model based on the theory of Social Darwinism. This means that the decision-making process is focused on the achievement of an objective by any means. Scruples are considered a distraction while so-called peacetime ethical norms are set aside for the duration of the war. The application of military strategy in business will never make a real difference in corporate behavior as long as its practitioners assume a peacetime state of affairs and firms continue to operate as if a state of war is in effect.
Publication Name: Journal of Business Ethics
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0167-4544
Year: 1999
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The democratic firm: an argument based on ordinary jurisprudence
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An argument based on ordinary jurisprudence for the democratic firm is brought forward. It is argued using the inalienable rights theory that the employment or self-sale contract is inherently invalid. A key axiom of the inalienable rights theory is that de facto responsibility for one's actions cannot be voluntarily transferred from one person to another. Justice, thus, demands that the legal reconstruction of every company as a partnership of all who work in the company.
Publication Name: Journal of Business Ethics
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0167-4544
Year: 1999
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