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The work relations and commercial deals established between customers and suppliers represent specific cases of the varied array of practices that members of any business organization might develop. This chapter investigates the circumstances in which such relations might be understood and categorized according to the Aristotelian concept of friendship. The analysis in turn seeks to contribute to a more general controversy, regarding whether commercial transactions between customers and suppliers might constitute routes to human friendship and virtuousness in an Aristotelian sense.
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Roca, E. (2015). Aristotelian Friendship in Supply Chain Management. In: Sison, A. (eds) Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6729-4_114-1
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