Corporate Social Performance, Stakeholder Orientation, and Organizational Moral Development
This article begins with an explanation of how moral development for organizations has parallels to Kohlberg's categorization of the levels of individual moral development. Then the levels of organizational moral development are integrated into the literature on corporate social performance by...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
1997
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 1997, Volume: 16, Issue: 12, Pages: 1213-1226 |
Further subjects: | B
Social Performance
B Social Issue B Business Ethic B Organizational Process B Economic Growth |
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Summary: | This article begins with an explanation of how moral development for organizations has parallels to Kohlberg's categorization of the levels of individual moral development. Then the levels of organizational moral development are integrated into the literature on corporate social performance by relating them to different stakeholder orientations. Finally, the authors propose a model of organizational moral development that emphasizes the role of top management in creating organizational processes that shape the organizational and institutional components of corporate social performance. This article represents one approach to linking the distinct streams of business ethics and business-and-society research into a more complete understanding of how managers and firms address complex ethical and social issues. |
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ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1005741931995 |