1 An Overview of the Theory: Hierarchies, Social Contract and Reputation -- 2 Economic Theory and the Social Contract of the Firm -- 3 Games of Reputation and Compliance with the Social Contract -- 4 How Far Does Reputation Extend? Abuse of Authority and Corporate Culture -- 5 Information,...

We investigate the link between individual motivations and economic organisations by focusing on the case of non-profit firms. First, we provide a model of individual behaviour that allows for agents to have motivations different from self-interested ones. We assume that individuals desire to...

This paper aims at discussing the role of behavioral business ethics as a methodological approach that is valuable for the construction of a robust normative foundation for business ethics. In particular, we will focus on experiments – and, to a lesser extent, surveys, field research, and even...

Corporate social responsibility is largely debated amongst management science and business ethics scholars, but only a few of consistent theoretical foundations have been provided for it. Typically these are suggested within the stakeholder approach to the theory of the firm, but the same...

This chapter introduces a notion of social/ethical norm that integrates its description as a self-sustaining regularity of behavior with the normative meanings of the statements by which a norm is formulated in the moral language. This definition is applied to organizational ethics where the...