How can a business respect nature?
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- Martin Drenthen · Ronald J. M. Jeurissen
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- 2025
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- en
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The research question of this paper is in the title. We will explore whether and how businesses can respect nature. The research question is based on a long tradition of business ethics thinking about the relationship between profits and principles. Sparked by a confrontation with the wolf, who introduces the wild in modern hybrid landscapes, we argue that nature makes an appeal to our moral respect, no matter whether this nature is in the form of a pristine landscape of a small patch of urban nature. Working from this genuinely human experience of respect for nature, we examine whether businesses, being a format in which people act cooperatively, can also respect nature. We will argue that this is the case. Counter the “myth of amoral business” we hold that businesses do have a moral conscience, and hence can respect nature in their decisions. The radicalness of the business ethics agenda has always been the search for convincing arguments and cases demonstrating that business is not bound up by egoistic and short-term considerations, but that it can be a force for good in society. In demonstrating that business can respect nature, we hope to contribute to this perennial radicalness of business ethics.
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- https://openalex.org/W4406524224
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- 10.4337/9781035308026.00008
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- Edward Elgar Publishing
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- Edward Elgar Publishing
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- 2025-01-10
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Martin Drenthen; Ronald J. M. Jeurissen. How can a business respect nature?. 2025. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035308026.00008
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- Martin Drenthen; Ronald J. M. Jeurissen. (2025). How can a business respect nature?. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035308026.00008
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- Martin Drenthen; Ronald J. M. Jeurissen. How can a business respect nature?. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2025. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035308026.00008
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- Martin Drenthen; Ronald J. M. Jeurissen. How can a business respect nature?. 2025. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035308026.00008
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