Business and the Polis: What Does it Mean to See Corporations as Political Actors?

Néron, Pierre-Yves

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“…Bodies involved in SRA comprise a variety of institutions including corporations, professional bodies, and influential non-governmental organisations (NGOs) (Néron, 2010). Waddock (2008) estimates that there are over 150 NGOs worldwide who are actively involved with issuing guidelines and principles, providing SRA services, and serving as activists in the area of sustainability.…”

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A Conceptual Framework for Investigating ‘Capture’ in Corporate Sustainability Reporting Assurance

2010

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“…Hsieh (2008) identifies as a basic structure the level of economic democracy and in particular of workplace democracy, understood as the collective allocation of residual decision-making rights as long as it helps in achieving some further goal. Moreover, Néron (2010) investigates the role of corporations as distributive agents. Finally, Norman (2015) stresses the importance of ownership and governance in the TJ.…”

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Justice and Corporate Governance: New Insights from Rawlsian Social Contract and Sen’s Capabilities Approach

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Sacconi

2018

J Bus Ethics

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By considering what we identify as a problem inherent in the 'nature of the firm'-the risk of abuse of authority-we propound the conception of a social contract theory of the firm which is truly Rawlsian in its inspiration. Hence, we link the social contract theory of the firm (justice at firm's level) with the general theory of justice (justice at society's level). Through this path, we enter the debate about whether firms can be part of Rawlsian theory of justice showing that corporate governance principles enter the "basic structure." Finally, we concur with Sen's aim to broaden the realm of social justice beyond what he calls the 'transcendental institutional perfectionism' of Rawls' theory. We maintain the contractarian approach to justice but introduce Sen's capability concept as an element of the constitutional and post-constitutional contract model of institutions with special reference to corporate governance. Accordingly, rights over primary goods and capabilities are (constitutionally) granted by the basic institutions of society, but many capabilities have to be turned into the functionings of many stakeholders through the operation of firms understood as post-constitutional institutional domains. The constitutional contract on the distribution of primary goods and capabilities should then shape the principles of corporate governance so that at post-constitutional level anyone may achieve her/his functionings in the corporate domain by exercising such capabilities. In the absence of such a condition, post-constitutional contracts would distort the process that descends from constitutional rights and capabilities toward social outcomes.

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“…The way forward that this perspective offers is a path to moral development and political activity in societies and business organisations. For social and environmental justice to be a reality locally and globally, under the politico-ethical perspective corporations would have to bear a responsibility extending beyond economic instrumentalism (Néron 2010;Whelan 2012).…”

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Synthesising Corporate Responsibility on Organisational and Societal Levels of Analysis: An Integrative Perspective

Heikkurinen

Mäkinen

2016

J Bus Ethics

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This article develops an integrative perspective on corporate responsibility by synthesising competing perspectives on the responsibility of the corporation at the organisational and societal levels of analysis. We review three major corporate responsibility perspectives, which we refer to as economic, critical, and politico-ethical. We analyse the major potential uses and pitfalls of the perspectives, and integrate the debate on these two levels. Our synthesis concludes that when a society has a robust division of moral labour in place, the responsibility of a corporation may be economic (as suggested under the economic perspective) without jeopardising democracy and sustainability (as reported under the critical perspective). Moreover, the economic role of corporations neither signifies the absence of deliberative democratic mechanisms nor business practices extending beyond compliance (as called for under the politico-ethical perspective). The study underscores the value of integrating different perspectives and multiple levels of analysis to present comprehensive descriptions and prescriptions of the responsibility phenomenon.

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Business and the Polis: What Does it Mean to See Corporations as Political Actors?

Abstract: business and government relations, business and politics, corporations and citizenship, organizations, political philosophy,

Cited by 92 publications

References 54 publications

A Conceptual Framework for Investigating ‘Capture’ in Corporate Sustainability Reporting Assurance

A Conceptual Framework for Investigating ‘Capture’ in Corporate Sustainability Reporting Assurance

Justice and Corporate Governance: New Insights from Rawlsian Social Contract and Sen’s Capabilities Approach

Synthesising Corporate Responsibility on Organisational and Societal Levels of Analysis: An Integrative Perspective

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