Arbeitspapier
Corporate citizenship as stakeholder management: An ordonomic approach to business ethics
This paper argues that the perspective of ordonomic—a rational-choice based analysis of (interdependencies between) social structure and semantics—can provide new insights into the changing role of business in society. We claim (a) that the proper role of business is societal value creation, (b) that business firms—as economic players— can take on the role of improving the rules of the game, i.e., act as corporate citizens, and (c) that business ethics can and should provide theoretical guidance for “corporate citizenship” and the political processes of “new governance,” in which business firms, together with civil society organizations and state actors, work together to solve problems, especially at an international (and sometimes even global) scale. Finally, we show (d) that this perspective requires overcoming two blind spots in recent discourse about the appropriate analytical foundations of business ethics.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- ISBN
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978-3-86829-031-8
- Erschienen in
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Series: Diskussionspapier ; No. 2008-4
Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
Relation of Economics to Social Values
Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
corporate citizenship
corporate social responsibility
new governance
ordonomics
rational choice
social dilemmas
stakeholder theory
Hielscher, Stefan
Beckmann, Markus
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-7507
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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12.07.2024, 13:22 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Pies, Ingo
- Hielscher, Stefan
- Beckmann, Markus
- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsethik
Entstanden
- 2008