The Value of Unregulated Business-NGO Interaction
指出商业伦理中常用的协商民主模型只适用于制度化的企业与社会互动，无法解释不受监管的互动，并引入批判性协商民主理论来论证这种非制度化互动在某些情况下比制度化更可取。
Political theories in general and deliberative democracy in particular have become quite popular in business ethics over the past few years. However, the model of deliberative democracy as generally referred to in business ethics is only appropriate for conceptualizing interaction between business and society which occurs within a context which is more or less institutionalized. The model cannot account for “unregulated” interaction between business and civil society. The authors argue that scholars need to resort to the so called “critical strand” of deliberative democracy if we want to conceptualize interaction that happens without the involvement of decision-making institutions as political action in a deliberative sense. Adopting this approach allows us to identify cases in which unregulated interaction between business and civil society is preferable over institutionalization.