Social Contracting in e-Business

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Philippa Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Social Contracting

The Evolutionary Firm and Its Moral (Dis)Contents

ruffin_darden ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 145-176
Author(s):  
William C. Frederick ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Business Firm ◽  
Evolutionary Time ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Moral Significance ◽  
Business Corporation ◽  
Natural Agents ◽  
Social Contracting ◽  
Normal Expression ◽  
Market Dominance

The business firm, called here the Evolutionary Firm, is shown to be a phenomenon of nature. The firm’s motives, organization, productivity, strategy, and moral significance are a direct outgrowth of natural evolution. Its managers, directors, and employees are natural agents enacting and responding to biological, physical, and ecological impulses inherited over evolutionary time from ancient human ancestors. The Evolutionary Firm’s moral posture is a function of its economizing success, competitive drive, quest for market dominance, social contracting skills, and the neural algorithms found in the minds of its executives and directing managers. Behavioral, organizational, and societal contradictions arise from the normal expression of these nature-based executive impulses, so that the business corporation cannot simultaneously satisfy society’s moral expectations and perform its nature-dictated economic functions.

scholarly journals The balance between resource development and environmental protection is “Social Contracting”: The case of LAPSSET project in Kenya

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Onditi 1
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Social Contracting ◽  
Initial Idea ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Mind

The LAPSSET project is a mega undertaking with heavy investment. Like any other public infrastructure depends entirely on fund availability and proactive involvement of respective governments, particularly Kenya, given its role as the base of the port in Manda. Unfortunately, the mind-set in the region are fixated to believe that hegemonic tendencies of Kenya will divert the initial idea of connecting Africa. Moreover, given the high costs involved compared to most country’s GDP in the region, cooperation with other sub-regions beyond Eastern Africa is indispensable. This article assess the feasibility of the LAPSSET project within the regional political dynamics. 

Youth, Social Contracting and the Postcolony

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Everatt
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Global South ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Contracts ◽  
Social Contracting ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Employment Inequality

Social contracts are concerned with the legitimacy of the state over the individual. The social contract offers mutual benefit and reciprocal obligation and is intrinsic to liberalism’s assertion that freedom is normative and encroaching on freedom requires justification. The social contract is both a philosophical idea and a toolkit for defusing conflict and tying participants to core liberal values. Talk of new social contracts, including intergenerational contracts, focus on maintaining a peaceful status quo, not transcending it. For the Global South in general, and youth in particular, the experience is more contract and less social. There seems little opportunity for southern youth to move from the margins to center stage, mimicking the inability of the Global South to do the same. Southern youth bear the brunt of limited economic opportunities, precarious employment, inequality, racism, and violence, compounding their marginalized place in society. What value can social contracting play beyond a short-term band-aid, unless it incorporates a fundamental rupture with the past?

Ties That Grind? Corroborating a Typology of Social Contracting Problems

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens ◽  
Muel Kaptein ◽  
J.(Hans) van Oosterhout
Keyword(s):  
Social Contracting

Social Contracting as a Trust-Building Process of Network Governance

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry M. Calton ◽  
Lawrence J. Lad
Keyword(s):  
Moral Agency ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Social Contracting ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Governance Process ◽  
History Of

Abstract:Social contracting has a long and important place in the history of political philosophy (Hardin, 1991; Waldron, 1989) and as a theory of justice (Baynes, 1989; Rawls, 1971). More recently, it has been developed into an individual rights-based theory of organizations (Keeley, 1980, 1988), and as a way to integrate ethics and moral legitimacy into corporate strategy and action (Donaldson, 1982; Freeman & Gilbert, 1988). Currently, it is being proposed as an integrative theory of economic ethics (Donaldson & Dunfee, forthcoming). This paper will extend the Donaldson and Dunfee approach by arguing that social contracting can best be understood and applied in organizational settings if it is perceived and treated as a network governance process. This insight can benefit management scholars and practitioners alike, since it calls attention to the processes by which trust is created and sustained in on-going contractual relationships. It also strongly suggests that a new approach to applying managerial discretion, as moral agency, is needed to realize the full competitive and ethical potential of emerging network forms.

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