The Role of Corporations in Shaping the Global Rules of the Game: In Search of New Foundations

Although a research focus on the increasing involvement of corporations in shaping and maintaining the global rules of the game points out promising avenues for future research, it simultaneously makes clear how little currently established, mostly managerial conceptual frameworks have to offer in m...

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Published in:Business ethics quarterly 2010-04, Vol.20 (2), p.253-264
Main Author: Oosterhout, J. (Hans) van
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business ethics
Corporate governance
Corporate regulation
Corporate responsibility
Corporations
Game theory
Games
Globalization
Governance
International business
International law
Multinational corporations
Normativity
Responses to BEQ's Special Issue on the Changing Role of Business in Global Society
Roles
Rules
Studies
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Summary:Although a research focus on the increasing involvement of corporations in shaping and maintaining the global rules of the game points out promising avenues for future research, it simultaneously makes clear how little currently established, mostly managerial conceptual frameworks have to offer in making sense of these developments. It is argued that we need to expand the rather restricted perspectives that these frameworks provide, in order to explore new conceptual foundations that will not only enable us to travel the confines of the different disciplines involved with the study of the changing role of business in shaping the global rules of the game, but that can also systematically connect normative and positive research questions at the conceptual level. Three directions for this search for new foundations are briefly explored.
ISSN:1052-150X
2153-3326
DOI:10.1017/S1052150X00002906