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The Moral Legitimacy of NGOs as Partners of Corporations
Partnerships between companies and NGOs have received considerable attention in CSR in the past years. However, the role of NGO legitimacy in such partnerships has thus far been neglected. We argue that NGOs assume a status as special stakeholders of corporations which act on behalf of the common good. This role requires a particular focus on their moral legitimacy. We introduce a...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2011
Social Entrepreneurship and the 'New Spirit of the Third Sector'
Social entrepreneurship in the third sector is largely represented as an indispensable response to declines in government subsidies and private donations. This contribution uses ideology critique to turn this logic on its head: summoning the heroic and monumental, iconic representations conceal that social entrepreneurship might be less a "necessity" than an ideological...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/07/2011
CSR, Sustainability and Other Confusing Terms : Transatlantic Perspectives
Report on the Workshop of the 4th meeting of the Transatlantic Academy on Corporate Responsibility, Montreal, October 11-16, 2010
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2011
Civilized Market Economy: Agianst the economistic blindness
Erschienen in: Current Concrns; No. 18, Ocotober 2010
(in print and online)
Institution partenaire
English / 02/10/2010
The Symbolic Violence of 'Social Entrepreneurship' : Language, Power and the Question of the Social (Subject)
In the field of social entrepreneurship research there are only few inquiries which approach language in terms of its symbolic violence. That is to say that language has not been properly addressed as a strategic means for governing social entrepreneurship by (a) endowing the concept with a particular societal utility function and by (b) providing a grid of intelligibility for the ‘...
Institution partenaire
English / 22/06/2010
Civilizing the Market Economy : The Approach of Integrative Economic Ethics to Sustainable Development
As long as the economy is not embedded in a superordinate societal framework the problem of sustainable development cannot be solved within the logic of the market system. The establishment of such a framework is an epochal cultural and political task. The well-known definition of sustainable development by the Brundtland Commission fails to make this clear since it neglects the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2010
Advancing the notion of a social market economy : Concepts for a renewal of ordoliberalism from the perspective of integrative economic ethics
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Civilizing the Market Economy: The Approach of Integrative Economic Ethics to Sustainable Development
As long as the economy is not embedded in a superordinate societal framework the problem of sustainable development cannot be solved within the logic of the market system. The establishment of such a framework is an epochal cultural and political task. The well-known definition of sustainable development by the Brundtland Commission fails to make this clear since it neglects the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2009
Towards a Civilized Market Economy : Economic Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities in Service of a Humane Society
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Limited = Limiting Reading of Social Constructionism: A Reply to Carl Ratner's "Epistemological, Social, and Political Conundrums in Social Constructionism"
RATNER's "Epistemological, Social, and Political Conundrums in Social Constructionism" provides ample illustration of how a grossly negligent, read both limited and limiting, exegesis of social constructionsim has the demonstrable effect of installing the impression of the subject matter forming a homogeneous unity and an utmost negative one at that. The present...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2008
The Case against the Business Case and the Idea of "Earned Reputation"
"Ethics pays in the long run." This still is the mantra of most practitioners and scholars in the field of business ethics. The paper at hand questions this widely held, instrumentalist view on the relationship between "ethics" and profits on epistemological and thus fundamental grounds. We will argue, first, that the positivist search for any correlation between...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2008
On the Name of Social Entrepreneurship: Business School Teaching, Research, and Development Aid
The concept ‘social entrepreneurship' is virtually proliferating like a virus, elating and inspiring people in such diverse spheres as politics, the media, the non-profit sector as well as academia. Despite the rather young pedigree of the term, social entrepreneurship today is predominantly construed as a positive sign, a genuine ‘hurray word', so to speak. In an effort to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2007
Suicide Attempts as Social Goal-Directed Systems of Joint Careers, Projects, and Actions
In the present study we examined to what extent persons who attempt suicide describe their attempt in terms of social, joint processes. Psychotherapists interviewed 40 patients hospitalized in a general hospital for a few days after an attempted suicide. The content of the interviews was analyzed for the level of systemic processes the patients referred to (that is, action, project,...
Institution partenaire
English / 07/12/2006
The Rhetoric of Social Entrepreneurship : Paralogy and New Language in Academic Discourse
READING REHEARSAL:
INTRODUCTION
The proliferation of social entrepreneurship narratives being broadcasted on television and published in newspapers, practitioner books and scientific journals epitomizes one of the very latest fashion trends that has penetrated researchers', politicians', and journalists' discourse in equal measure. It is thus noticeable...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2006
Self-confrontation interview with suicide attempters
Psychiatric and psychological assessment after parasuicide is characterized by a number of difficulties. The interview is a strategically complex task for the patients trying to accommodate the wishes of the psychiatrist/psychologist and their own goals. The psychiatrist/ psychologist on the other hand needs to gain information about the event and the patient's mental state, has...
Institution partenaire
English / 12/10/2002
Business ethics - the founding principles
A company becoming a "good citizen" will not only make the world a better place but will also add to stakeholder and shareholder value. An integrative approach is essential.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/10/2000
"I had imagined liberalism slightly differently"
In this fictitious conversation Adam Smith (1723-90), who founded the science of political economy, talks to business ethics professor Peter Ulrich through the key passages of his work that his neoliberal interpreters are so fond of (not) quoting.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2000
Towards an Ethically-based Conception of Socio-economic Rationality. From the Social Contract Theory to Discourse Ethics as the Normative Foundation of Political Economy. Competely revised 3d ed
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With the award of a Nobel prize in 1986 to James M. Buchanan, the time-honoured social contract theory of political philosophy finally (re-)entered the realm of economic theory. The contractarian approach has turned out to be a crucial element in the foundation of what is called now the New Institutional Economics. The new openness of the discipline to contractarian...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
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