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| Author: | Neron, P-Y. |
| Title: | Business and the Polis: What does it mean to see corporations as political actors? |
| Journal: | Journal of Business Ethics
2010 : JUL I, VOL. 94:3, p. 333-352 |
| Index terms: | business-government relations business ethics corporate responsibility companies politics |
| Freeterms: | political science |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article deals with the recent call in business ethics (henceforth as: b-e.) literature for a better understanding of corporations (here as: corps.) as political actors/entities. After an overview of recent attempts to examine classical issues in b-e. through a political lens, examined are different ways in which theorists with an interest in the normative analysis of business practices and institutions could find it desirable and fruitful to use a political lens. This article presents a distinction among four views of the relations btw. corps. and politics: corps. as distributive agents, corps. as political communities, corporate practices and policies as citizenship issues, and corps. as active participants in the political process. In conclusion, three challenges are examined which need to be overcome by the theory of the firm as a political actor. |
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