The purpose of this course is to develop an ordonomic ethics of competitive markets, corporate citizenship and new governance that provides a framework for explaining the political participation of companies in new governance processes and that does not weaken but instead strengthens the functional role of corporations as economic actors in the market system of value creation. The course develops such ordonomic approach in three steps.
(1) The ordonomic perspective on the economics ethics of competitive markets argues that the social responsibility of business does not lie in maximizing profits but in addressing societal needs through the mutually advantageous creation of value.
(2) The ordonomic approach to the business ethics of corporate actors claims that corporate firms can use moral commitments as a factor of production.
(3) The ordonomic perspective on the process ethics of new governance holds that companies can act not only as economic actors but also participate as political and moral actors by taking ordo-responsibility in processes of new governance.
This course takes a closer look at the theoretical foundations of competitive markets, corporate citizenship and new governance. In doing so, this course adopts a student integrated learning approach: Students discuss issues and problems of economic, business and process ethics in groups, prepare own presentations based on the original texts and lead theoretical and practical discussions in class. The final grade consists both of the performance in the presentation and of a final written exam.
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Diese Veranstaltung gehört zum Anmeldeset "Anmeldung gesperrt (global)".
