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Social Contract Theory and Gender Discrimination: Some Reflections on the Donaldson/Dunfee Model

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  • Mayer, Don
  • Cava, Anita

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This paper relates Donaldson and Dunfee’s Integrative Social Contracts Theory to the problem of gender discrimination. We make the assumption that multinational managers might seek some guidance from ISCT to resolve ethical issues of gender discrimination in countries indifferent or hostile to gender equality. The role of Donaldson and Dunfee’s “hypernorms” seems especially crucial, and we find that, under their writings thus far, no “hypernorms” exist to make unethical the most blatant acts of sex discrimination in a host country whose local norms tolerate such discrimination. The genesis of “hypernorms” as “global moral minimums” is recounted, and specific application of ISCT to a familiar ethics case (“A Foreign Assignment”) is provided.

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  • Mayer, Don & Cava, Anita, 1995. "Social Contract Theory and Gender Discrimination: Some Reflections on the Donaldson/Dunfee Model," Business Ethics Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(2), pages 257-270, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buetqu:v:5:y:1995:i:02:p:257-270_01
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    1. Dirk Gilbert & Michael Behnam, 2009. "Advancing Integrative Social Contracts Theory: A Habermasian Perspective," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 89(2), pages 215-234, October.
    2. George Brenkert, 2009. "ISCT, Hypernorms, and Business: A Reinterpretation," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 88(4), pages 645-658, October.
    3. Federico Ast, 2019. "The Deliberative Test, a New Procedural Method for Ethical Decision Making in Integrative Social Contracts Theory," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 155(1), pages 207-221, March.
    4. Ben Wempe, 2008. "Four Design Criteria for any Future Contractarian Theory of Business Ethics," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 81(3), pages 697-714, September.
    5. Katherina Glac & Tae Kim, 2009. "The “I” in ISCT: Normative and Empirical Facets of Integration," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 88(4), pages 693-705, October.
    6. Thomas Dunfee, 2006. "A Critical Perspective of Integrative Social Contracts Theory: Recurring Criticisms and Next Generation Research Topics," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 68(3), pages 303-328, October.

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