TY - JOUR AU - Reece, John W. AB - The positive social impact of global commerce on an increasingly interdependent world is challenged by civil society. A diversely supported backlash threatens political restrictions on the free market paradigm and loss of globalization's momentum. Opposition is documented in the historical record and an expanding base of critical literature. The power balance of the three components of society‐political, economic and civil is in flux. Business's only stabilizing strategy is to acknowledge and act on its commensurate social responsibility. Optimism is found in a minority of individual business actions, however the speed with which the majority will adapt is crucial. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. TI - Business and the civil society: The missing dialectic JO - Thunderbird International Business Review DO - 10.1002/tie.1020 DA - 2001-09-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/business-and-the-civil-society-the-missing-dialectic-GDGBUCTdZ6 SP - 651 EP - 667 VL - 43 IS - 5 DP - DeepDyve ER -