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Universalizability and Reciprocity in International Business Ethics

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Most writers on international business ethics adopt a universalist perspective, but the traditional expression of problems in terms of a discrepancy between (superior) home country and (inferior) host country values makes it difficult to preserve the symmetry required by a universalizability criterion. In this paper a critique of Donaldson’s (1989) theory is used to illustrate some of the ways in which ethnocentric assumptions can enter into a supposedly universalist argument. A number of suggestions are then made for improving Donaldson’s approach by careful attention to the requirement of universalizability, expressed in a contractarian theory in the form of agent symmetry or reciprocity.

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  • Hendry, John, 1999. "Universalizability and Reciprocity in International Business Ethics," Business Ethics Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, vol. 9(3), pages 405-420, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buetqu:v:9:y:1999:i:03:p:405-420_00
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