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Reflections on the Practical Relevance of Feminist Thought to Business

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Andrew C. Wicks
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Abstract

I appreciate the opportunity to comment on two recent papers (Burton and Dunn, “Feminist Ethics as Moral Grounding for Stakeholder Theory” and Dobson, “The Feminine Firm: A Comment”—both in the April 1996 edition of BEQ) which deal with the subject of feminism in business ethics. Both raise important issues for how we think about the relevance and potential contribution of feminist thought to this area of research.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 523 - 531
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1996

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