v1n2: Smith on Wettstein
Posted: February 14, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment“Corporate Human Rights Obligations: Moral or Political?” by Jeffery Smith
http://doi.org/10.12747/bejr2013.01.02
A COMMENT ON Florian Wettstein (2012), “CSR and the Debate on Business and Human Rights: Bridging the Great Divide,” Bus Ethics Q 22(4): 739–770.
Abstract: This discussion reviews Florian Wettstein’s conclusion that multinational corporations should assume greater “positive” obligations to protect against and remedy violations of human rights. It thereafter suggests an alternative to his defense that remains open to his conclusion, but sketches a moral, rather than political, grounding of those obligations.
To download the full PDF, click here: Smith on Wettstein.
Update: Now see also Wettstein Replies to Smith.
v1n1: Jaworski on Heath
Posted: February 14, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized 16 Comments“Moving Beyond Market Failure: When the Failure is Government’s” by Peter Jaworski
http://doi.org/10.12747/bejr2013.01.01
A COMMENT ON Joseph Heath (2006), “Business Ethics Without Stakeholders,” Bus Ethics Q 16(4): 533–557.
Abstract: Joseph Heath lumps in rent seeking with cartelization, taking advantage of information asymmetries, seeking a monopoly position, and so on, as all instances of behaviour that can lead to market failures in his market failures approach to business ethics. The problem is that rent and rent seeking, when they fail to deliver socially desirable outcomes, are instances of government failure. I try to argue that this is so, offer an amendment to Heath’s approach, and then explain why accurately describing the failure matters.
To download the full PDF, click here: Jaworski on Heath.
Update! Now see also Heath’s reply to Jaworski.
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