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The Feminine Firm: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

John Dobson
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Abstract

In this comment I challenge two of the arguments made in the paper, “Toward the Feminine Firm.” First I challenge the claim that Gilligan's work on gender differences in moral orientation provides a logically and empirically sound foundation for an alternative theory of the firm. I cite recent work that discredits any concise notion of a feminine ethic. Second I challenge the claim that, if such a firm were to exist, it would flourish in a competitive market economy. I suggest that, far from flourishing, such a firm will rapidly perish.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1996 , pp. 227 - 232
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1996

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