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- Title
SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE DONALDSON/DUNFEE MODEL.
- Authors
Mayer, Don; Cava, Anita
- Abstract
This paper relates Donaldson and Dunfee's Integrative Social Contracts Theory to the problem of gender discrimination. We make the assumption that multinational managers might seek some guidance from ISCT to resolve ethical issues of gender discrimination in countries indifferent or hostile to gender equality. The role of Donaldson and Dunfee's "hypernorms" seems especially crucial, and we find that, under their writings thus far, no "hypernorms" exist to make unethical the most blatant acts of sex discrimination in a host country whose local norms tolerate such discrimination. The genesis of "hypernorms" as "global moral minimums" is recounted, and specific application of ISCT to a familiar ethics case ("A Foreign Assignment") is provided.
- Subjects
SOCIAL contract; SEX discrimination; EQUALITY; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); BUSINESS ethics; SEXISM; CONTRACTS; POLITICAL science; SOCIOLOGY; GENDER
- Publication
Business Ethics Quarterly, 1995, Vol 5, Issue 2, p257
- ISSN
1052-150X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3857356