Legal Studies and Business Ethics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
2000
Publication Source
Business and Society Review
Volume
105
Issue
4
Start Page
436
Last Page
443
DOI
10.1111/0045-3609.00092
Abstract
We wrote the book, Ties that Bind, out of our conviction that answering today’s questions require a new approach to business ethics, an approach that exposes the implicit understandings or "contracts" that bind industries, companies, and economic systems into moral communities. It is in these economic communities, and in the often unspoken understandings that provide their ethical glue, that we believe many of the answers to business ethics quandaries lie. Further, we think that answering such questions requires the use of a yet deeper, and universal "contract" superseding even individual ones. The theory that combines both these deeper and thinner kinds of contracts we label “Integrative Social Contracts Theory,” or "ISCT" for short.
Copyright/Permission Statement
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0045-3609.00092. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
Recommended Citation
Donaldson, T., & Dunfee, T. W. (2000). Precis for Ties that Bind. Business and Society Review, 105 (4), 436-443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0045-3609.00092
Date Posted: 27 November 2017