Creating Ties That Bind
R. Edward Freeman, Jared D. Harris
Journal of Business Ethics · 2009 · Volume 88 · Issue 4
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0333-4
Abstract
The work of Donaldson and Dunfee (Ties That Bind: A Social Contracts Approach to Business Ethics,1999) offers an example of how normative and descriptive approaches to business ethics can be integrated. We suggest that to be truly integrative, however, the theory should explore the processes by which such integration happens. We, therefore, sketch some preliminary thoughts that extend Integrative Social Contracts Theory (ISCT) by beginning to consider theprocessby which microsocial contracts are connected to hypernorms.
Keywords
integrative social contracts theory, hypernorms, moral disagreement, reflective equilibrium
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