TY - JOUR PY - 2009 SN - 1972-554X T1 - Economia e economia informale JO - SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO DA - 7/15/2009 12:00:00 AM DO - 10.3280/SL2009-113004 UR - http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_rivista.aspx?idArticolo=36761 AU - Mingione, Enzo SP - 38 EP - 42 IS - 113 VL - LA - IT AB - Economia e economia informale - Ethics and enterprises: a new and different approach to the theme The author re-reads the relationship between ethics and enterprises in the light of Polanyi’s thought, advancing an open proposal, which is methodological and implies a macro point of view, and which involves all the social subsystems. In order to define the nature of ethics it is important to consider that it is essential to the life itself of enterprises and, according to Granovetter, to reconsider the idea that the economic action (rational action toward the aim) is a social action. This perspective highlights a different interpretation of ethics, which depends on the consideration of the enterprise without society, of the enterprise as autonomous from society and of the enterprise in the society, that is, as part of a logic of action coherent with the values of society. PB - FrancoAngeli ER -