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Reconstructing the Moral Logic of the Stakeholder Approach, and Reconsidering the Participation Requirement
The most recent restatements of stakeholder theory formulate that approach in terms of the distribution of value: “A stakeholder approach to business...
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Do Banks Value Borrowers' Environmental Record? Evidence from Financial Contracts
Banks play a unique role in society. They not only maximize profits but also consider the interests of stakeholders. We investigate whether banks...
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Harm Reduction, Solidarity, and Social Mobility as Target Functions: A Rortian Approach to Stakeholder Theory
Instrumental Stakeholder Theory has begun to suffer from what might be termed “mission drift.” Despite its initial success in creating a foothold for...
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Stakeholders Are Human: The Micro-foundations of Stakeholder Theory and an Application to the Value Distribution Problem
Since stakeholder theory revolves around the management of firm-stakeholder relationships, it requires a profound understanding of stakeholders and...
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Envisioning the Aesthetic Firm
This paper draws on the work of Alain Badiou and Martin Heidegger to construct a postructural theory of the firm. The ideal firm is conceived as a...
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Stakeholder Capitalism and the Value Chain
The purpose of this article is to explore the idea of stakeholder capitalism. In particular, Freeman and Liedtka argue that a firm grounding of the...
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Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights
This chapter presents a business ethics framework that can be used to determine the moral responsibility that firms have when it comes to human...
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Re-conceptualizing Resources: An Ontological Re-evaluation of the Resource-based View
The Resource-Based View (RBV) has been instrumental in sha** strategic management theory by underscoring the significance of a firm's unique,...
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Ethics, Economics, and the Specter of Naturalism: The Enduring Relevance of the Harmony Doctrine School of Economics
This article revisits the "harmony doctrine" school of economics (1835–1860) and its distinctive understanding of how ethics and economics intersect....
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Government Initiated Corporate Social Responsibility Activities: Evidence from a Poverty Alleviation Campaign in China
In 2016 the Chinese government initiated a nationwide campaign aiming to eliminate poverty in China by 2020. Over 20% of listed firms in China have...
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Community financing for sustainable food and farming: a proximity perspective
An increasing number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the German organic agri-food sector involves citizens through different...
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Shared Value Creation in Equivocal CSR Environments: A Configuration Approach
Organizations are increasingly expected by their stakeholders to tackle the “wicked” problems of society. These new pressures have created a highly...
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Between ambitions and actions: how citizens navigate the entrepreneurial process of co-producing sustainable urban food futures
Cities increasingly envision sustainable future food systems. The realization of such futures is often understood from a planning perspective,...
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Diversity Beyond Non-discrimination: From Structural Injustices to Participatory Institutions
This essay reflects on deficiencies in existing accounts of diversity understood simply as non-discrimination. Her critique of contemporary policies...
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Grounding and Applying an Ethical Test to Organisations as Moral Agents: The Case of Mondragon Corporation
Moral people (i) have good goals in acting in a challenging situation; and (ii) use their rightly disposed intellectual and voluntary capacities...
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Locality Stereotype, CEO Trustworthiness and Stock Price Crash Risk: Evidence from China
Exploring the locality stereotype with respect to CEO’s trustworthiness, we find that firms whose CEOs are from more reputable hometowns have a...
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Corporations as the Central Institutions of Society
Mark Twain observed that, “Prediction is very difficult—particularly when it involves the future,” and he was right. One way to reduce the risk of...
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Winning at a Losing Game? Side-Effects of Perceived Tournament Promotion Incentives in Audit Firms
Tournament-like promotion systems are the default in audit firms, which are generally internally owned professional partnerships. While awarding...
