caa a22 4500 605485607 CHVBK 20210128100441.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-013-2046-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-013-2046-y Silver David Chair in Business and Professional Ethics, W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, The Sauder School of Business, The University of British Columbia, 6356-231 Agricultural Road, V6T1Z2, Vancouver, BC, Canada aut Business Ethics After Citizens United [Elektronische Daten] A Contractualist Analysis [David Silver] In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the US Supreme Court sharply curtailed the ability of the state to limit political speech by for-profit corporations. This new legal situation elevates the question of corporate political involvement: in what manner and to what extent is it ethical for for-profit corporations to participate in the political process in a liberal democratic society? Using Scanlon's version of contractualism, I argue for a number of substantive and procedural constraints on the political activities of businesses. Central to this contractualist analysis is (1) an identification of the self-governance-based interests of individuals that are affected by corporate political activity and (2) a method for judging the various assignments of social rights, duties and roles according to how they collectively meet those interests. Together, these two features make this contractualist approach distinctive and allow it to generate substantive ethical results. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Business ethics nationallicence Policy nationallicence Contractualism nationallicence Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 127/2(2015-03-01), 385-397 0167-4544 127:2<385 2015 127 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-2046-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-2046-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Silver David Chair in Business and Professional Ethics, W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, The Sauder School of Business, The University of British Columbia, 6356-231 Agricultural Road, V6T1Z2, Vancouver, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 127/2(2015-03-01), 385-397 0167-4544 127:2<385 2015 127 10551