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Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics 1/2011

01.03.2011

The Common Good of Business: Addressing a Challenge Posed by «Caritas in Veritate»

verfasst von: Alejo José G. Sison, Joan Fontrodona

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Sonderheft 1/2011

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Abstract

Caritas in Veritate (CV) poses a challenge to the business community when it asks for “a profoundly new way of understanding business enterprise” (CV 40). The paper proposes the concept of the “common good” as a starting point for the discussion and sketches a definition of the common good of business as the path toward an answer for this challenge. Building on the distinction between the material and the formal parts of the common good, the authors characterize profit as the material part of the common good of business and work as the formal part that expresses the essential significance of business.

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Metadaten
Titel
The Common Good of Business: Addressing a Challenge Posed by «Caritas in Veritate»
verfasst von
Alejo José G. Sison
Joan Fontrodona
Publikationsdatum
01.03.2011
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe Sonderheft 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-1181-6

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