Capitalism, corporations and the social contract: a critique of stakeholder theory

"In whose interests should a corporation be run? Over the last thirty years the field of 'stakeholder theory' has proposed a distinctive answer: a corporation should be run in the interests of all its primary stakeholders - including employees, customers, suppliers and financiers - wi...

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主要作者: Mansell, Samuel F. (Author)
格式: Print 圖書
語言:English
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出版: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press c 2013
In:Year: 2013
評論:Capitalism, Corporations and the Social Contract: A Critique of Stakeholder Theory, by Samuel Mansell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 198 pp. ISBN: 9781107015524 (2015) (Néron, Pierre-Yves)
叢編:Business, value creation and society
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 企業 / 社會責任 / 企業倫理 / 持份者
Further subjects:B 企業社會責任
B Social Contract
B 社會契約
B 持份者
B 企業
B Capitalism Moral and ethical aspects
B Social responsibility of business
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總結:"In whose interests should a corporation be run? Over the last thirty years the field of 'stakeholder theory' has proposed a distinctive answer: a corporation should be run in the interests of all its primary stakeholders - including employees, customers, suppliers and financiers - without contradicting the ethical principles on which capitalism stands. This book offers a critique of this central claim. It argues that by applying the political concept of a 'social contract' to the corporation, stakeholder theory in fact undermines the principles on which a market economy is based. The argument builds upon an extensive review of the stakeholder literature and an analysis of its philosophical foundations, particularly concerning the social contract tradition of John Rawls and his predecessors. The book concludes by offering a qualified version of Milton Friedman's shareholder theory as a more justifiable account of the purpose of a corporation"--
Item Description:Literaturverz. S. 168 - 176
ISBN:1107015529