RT Article
T1 Multi-Level Corporate Responsibility: A Comparison of Gandhi’s Trusteeship with Stakeholder and Stewardship Frameworks
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 141
IS 1
SP 133
OP 150
A1 Balakrishnan, Jaydeep
A1 Malhotra, Ayesha
A1 Falkenberg, Loren
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785660276
AB Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi discussed corporate responsibility (CR) and business ethics over several decades of the twentieth century. His views are still influential in modern India. In this paper, we highlight Gandhi’s cross-level CR framework, which operates at institutional, organizational, and individual levels. We also outline how the Tata Group, one of India’s largest conglomerates, has historically applied and continues to utilize Gandhi’s concept of trusteeship. We then compare Gandhi’s framework to modern notions of stakeholder and stewardship management. We conclude that trusteeship has strong potential to help firms and their stakeholders achieve shared value by (a) considering the interactions between individual, organizational, and institutional factors, and (b) paying attention to a range of multi-level (reciprocal) stakeholder obligations.
K1 Stewardship theory
K1 Stakeholder Theory
K1 Trusteeship
K1 Gandhi
K1 Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
K1 Corporate Responsibility
DO 10.1007/s10551-015-2687-0