RT Article
T1 Stakeholder Engagement: Beyond the Myth of Corporate Responsibility
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 74
IS 4
SP 315
OP 327
A1 Greenwood, Michelle
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2007
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785628216
AB The purpose of this article is to transcend the assumption that stakeholder engagement is necessarily a responsible practice. Stakeholder engagement is traditionally seen as corporate responsibility in action. Indeed, in some literatures there exists an assumption that the more an organisation engages with its stakeholders, the more it is responsible. This simple ‹more is better’ view of stakeholder engagement belies the true complexity of the relationship between engagement and corporate responsibility. Stakeholder engagement may be understood in a variety of different ways and from a variety of different theoretical perspectives. Stakeholder engagement may or may not involve a moral dimension and, hence, is primarily a morally neutral practice. It is therefore argued that stakeholder engagement must be seen as separate from, but related to, corporate responsibility. A model that reflects the multifaceted relationship between the two constructs is proposed. This model not only allows the coincidence of stakeholder engagement with corporate responsibility, but also allows for the development of the notion of corporate irresponsibility.
K1 Stakeholder Theory
K1 Stakeholder engagement
K1 Social Reporting
K1 Human Resource Management
K1 Corporate Responsibility
K1 Corporate irresponsibility
DO 10.1007/s10551-007-9509-y