A Deliberative Case for Democracy in Firms

Andrea Felicetti ()
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Journal of Business Ethics, 2018, vol. 150, issue 3, No 14, 803-814

Abstract: Abstract 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 ethics. To date, deliberative democracy has largely neglected the role of business firms in democratic societies. While business ethics scholarship has given more attention to these issues, it has overlooked the possibility of deliberation within firms. As argued in the paper, a combination of reforms based on the ideas of workplace deliberation and business deliberation is necessary in order to promote the prospect of deliberation in different business contexts. The paper also discusses the importance of more democratic firms for deliberative democracy at large and, in particular, for the recent debate on deliberative systems. Finally, the paper suggests new areas of investigation to better understand the prospect of democratic deliberation in business firms.

Keywords: Deliberative democracy; Business ethics; Workplace deliberation; Deliberative firms; Ethical firms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3212-9

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