Values

Ole Thyssen
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Ole Thyssen: Copenhagen Business School

Chapter 6 in Business Ethics and Organizational Values, 2009, pp 87-108 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract So far we have, following Talcott Parsons, defined a value as a demand on a solution. A demand entails the possibility that it is not met. It is not logically possible to make a demand without accepting the possibility of rejection. Hence a value has a binary structure. It represents a distinction in which one side is acceptable and the other side is unacceptable. The two sides of the distinction are asymmetrical. It matters which side one is on. Besides having a logical structure, a value has a social structure.

Keywords: Business Ethic; Modern Society; Functional System; Factual Dimension; Moral Intuition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230250932_6

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