A Deliberative Case for Democracy in Firms

The increasing centrality of business firms in contemporary societies calls for a renewed attention to the democratization of these actors. This paper sheds new light on the possibility of democratizing business firms by bridging recent scholarship in two fields—deliberative democracy and business e...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics 2018-07, Vol.150 (3), p.803-814
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Deliberative democracy
Democracy
Democratization
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Ethics
Management
Modern society
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Philosophy
Quality of Life Research
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