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The Tide is Turning on the Separation Thesis?: A Response to Commentators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Joakim Sandberg
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Abstract

In my article “Understanding the Separation Thesis” I noted that most scholars in the business ethics field seemed to have accepted R. Edward Freeman’s argument to the effect that what he calls “the separation thesis” should be rejected. I argue, however, that they seemed to understand this thesis (and its rejection) in quite different ways. This volume contains three responses to my article which, interestingly enough, can be taken to corroborate my original argument. I here make some brief comments on these responses.

Type
Dialogue: Commentators and Author
Information
Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 561 - 565
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2008

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