Question: If businesses claim to have no extra-legal obligations, how can they claim the right to influence law and regulation?
If law and regulation embed the moral framework and businesses have no extra-legal obligations, expertise or responsibility, are businesses transgressing their proper limits when they influence legislation and/or regulation? Compare Porter and van der Linde with Fieser.
NB: This question is related to one of the discussion questions for week 7, but it is not precisely the same question. Feel free to draw on what you have learned in that discussion thread as it relates to this specific assignment. [2-3 pages, typed].
Article: 1. DO BUSINESSES HAVE MORAL OBLIGATIONS BEYOND WHAT THE LAW REQUIRES? (By James Fieser)
2. An underlying logic links the environment resourcs productivity, innovation, and competitiveness. (By Michael E. Porter and Claas Van Der Linde)