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Reflections On “Citizenship, Inc.”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Richard T. De George
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Abstract

Although I share many of the doubts about corporate citizenship of Néron and Norman, I join in their constructive project both by offering friendly criticism and by suggesting that their approach be extended further than they carry it. I argue first that rather than attempting to reform the language of corporate citizenship, we support its use where the effects are positive; second, that we concentrate on the fifth of their candidates for assessment; and third, that we extend the discussion to consider what it means to be a good global citizen, and whether that is compatible with being a good citizen of a particular state.

Type
Response Articles to Néron and Norman
Information
Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 43 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2008

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Notes

1 Néron, P.-Y., and Norman, W. “Citizenship, Inc.: Do We Really Want Businesses to Be Good Corporate Citizens?” Business Ethics Quarterly 18(1) (2008): 1–26Google Scholar.

2 UN Global Compact, available at http://www.unglobalcompact.org/AboutTheGC/index.html (accessed August 1, 2007)Google Scholar.

3 For a fuller disussion of this, see De George, Richard T., “Information Technology, Globalization, and Ethics,” Ethics and Information Technology 8(1) (2006): 29–40CrossRefGoogle Scholar.