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Thephilosophy of business considers the fundamental principles that underlie the formation and operation of abusiness enterprise; the nature and purpose of abusiness, and themoral obligations that pertain to it.

• Business ethics
• Theory of the firm

• Drucker, P. (1954),The Practice of Management, HarperBusiness, Reissue edition 1993,ISBN 0-88730-613-6
• Fort, Timothy (2001),Ethics and Governance: Business as Mediating Institution, Oxford University Press USA, New York.
• Friedman, M (1962),Capitalism and Freedom, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Hutcheson, F. (1729),An Inquiry Concerning Morall Good and Evil.
• Kalin, J. (1968), "In defence of egoism", inMorality and Rational Self-interest, edited byDavid Gauthier, Prentice Hall, New York, 1970.
• Lodge, Rupert (1945),Philosophy of Business, University of Chicago Press.
• Mandeville, B. (1715),The Fable of the Bees.
• Rawls, J. (1971),A Theory of Justice, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts.
• Lord Shaftesbury (1710),Enquiry Concerning Virtue.
• Smith, A. (1759),The Theory of Moral Sentiments, inAdam Smith's Moral and Political Philosophy, edited by H. Schneider, Harper, New York, 1948 and 1970.
• Strasnick, T. (1981) "Neo-utilitarian Ethics and the Ordinal Representation Assumption", inPhilosophy in economics, edited by J. Pitt, Reidel Publishing.
• Luetge C., ed. 2013,Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Heidelberg/New York: Springer,ISBN 978-9400714953.

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