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Reflections On “Citizenship, Inc.”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2015
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.
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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.
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