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COHEN, Marc A. The Narrow Application of Rawls in Business Ethics: A Political Conception of Both Stakeholder Theory and the Morality of Markets. Co-herencia [online]. 2012, vol.9, n.16, pp.145-184. ISSN 1794-5887.

This paper argues that Rawls' principles of justice provide a normative foundation for stakeholder theory. The principles articulate (at an abstract level) citizens' rights; these rights create interests across all aspects of society, including in the space of economic activity; and therefore, stakeholders -as citizens- have legitimate interests in the space of economic activity. Rawls work therefore presses us to ground questions of business ethics in political philosophy: stakeholder rights and interests (which are citizens' rights and interests in the economic context) are protected at the institutional level and are not to be determined by managers or corporations.

Palabras clave : Rawls; stakeholder theory; social contract theory; Moral Markets approach; organizational ethics.

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