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Der Beitrag untersucht kritisch, inwiefern sozio-moralische Ressourcen und Werte wie etwa Gemeinsinn, die von den Gründervätern der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft als Voraussetzungen für das Funktionieren der Wirtschaft postuliert werden, mit Hilfe des Sozialkapitalkonzepts näher expliziert werden können. Auf dieser Grundlage könnten politische Empfehlungen -wie die nach einer stärkeren Förderung des zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements -abgeleitet werden. Zentrale Verknüpfungselemente sind hierbei das Konzept des sozialen Vertrauens und die Rolle von Assoziationen, in denen Engagement stattfindet. Schlagwörter: Gemeinsinn, Soziale Marktwirtschaft, Sozialkapital, Vertrauen, Engagement Common Sense and Volunteering -Resources for the Social Market Economy?This article reviews the socio-moral resources and values like the common sense, which are postulated as preconditions for the functioning of the economy by ordoliberalism. It asks whether the notion of social capital can help to conceptualize them, which in turn could provide a foundation for public policy recommendations like stronger support for volunteering. Social trust and all sorts of associations in which people do volunteer are key elements in this perspective.

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In modern capitalist societies, companies are exposed to enormous pressure to accelerate. However, it has increasingly become apparent that the social and economic acceleration which is the result of systemic imperatives tends to produce conflict both on the micro-level of personal temporal patterns and rhythms and on the macro-ecological level, where it tends to undermine the proper times for natural regeneration and reproduction. Corporations are increasingly called upon as corporate citizens to fulfil their responsibilities to stakeholders such as employees or ecosystems. Business ethics approaches therefore seek to develop strategies for fulfilling this responsibility in view of these conflicts created by social acceleration. In this contribution, we first present a diagnosis of acceleration imperatives for companies based on a sociological analysis of social acceleration. Then we examine the normative aspects of conflicts created by acceleration for employees and the ecosphere using the sociological conception of resonance. We attempt to articulate conceptually the normative requirements for a business ethics which are capable of dealing with the problems of social acceleration in corporations with a particular focus on a resonant stakeholder approach.