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The relationship between private enterprise and public interest has always formed the core of business ethics, explicitly or implicitly. Even those who stick to the most radical conception of private business will claim that this is just what serves the public interest best — how else could they justify their position. Any guiding idea of the business company as a societal institution is a normative idea, rooted in a comprehensive social and political philosophy. And any possible legal design of such an institution has to be constituted and legitimized by a public procedure.
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Ulrich, P. (1995). Introduction Business in the Nineties: Facing Public Interest. In: Ulrich, P., Sarasin, C. (eds) Facing Public Interest. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0399-2_1
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