Moving Toward a More Caring Stakeholder Theory: Global Business Ethics in Dialogue with the Feminist Ethics of Care

Palmer, Daniel E.; Stoll, Mary Lyn

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9307-3_6

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“…employees, customers and communities) who give meaning to and define the corporations (see Burton and Dunn, 1996; Wicks et al, 1994). While it is relatively easy to prioritise self-interest (profit) over an abstract group of stakeholders, acknowledging them as concrete individuals heightens our sense of responsibility towards them (Palmer and Stoll, 2011). Thus, the empathetic approach supported by such ethics may help businesses to take to heart those whom they affect unintentionally (Koehn, 2011), including future generations (Wicks et al, 1994), disadvantaged consumers, communities and other species (see also Burton and Dunn, 1996).…”

Section: Care Ethicsmentioning

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Imagining a different voice: A critical and caring approach to management education

Heath

O’Malley

Tynan

2019

Management Learning

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This article discusses the use of the moral philosophy known as the ethics of care to critically engage management students in ways that favour the development and enactment of a critical and responsible mentality towards business. We use this ethics to ground critical thinking in a moral framework in order to create a conversation in which new possibilities for sustainable and ethical practices might be discovered. Specifically, we identify four teaching practices that allow students to experience being both ‘cared for’ and ‘one-caring’ and explore how this creates a deeper and more critical moral engagement with those affected by businesses. We further propose a framework for applying a care-ethical approach for teaching and learning.

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Section: Care Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imagining a different voice: A critical and caring approach to management education

Heath

O’Malley

Tynan

2019

Management Learning

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“…Occasionally stakeholder theory has been criticized as "ambiguous" (Pesqueux, 2006) and has "so far had little to say about how managers and other decision makers in business are made aware of morally significant relationships" (Palmer & Stoll, 2011).…”

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Who Decides on What to Spend in CSR? Moving from Compulsion to Consensus

Mohanty¹

2014

IJEBO

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With CSR spending becoming mandatory in some prominent economies, quantum of spend is increasingly becoming a non issue. Instead spending right has acquired prominence. Ever since policy makers mulled the idea of making CSR spending compulsory, there appears to be rush and panic in the business world to spend on CSR activities that gives them the best return on their social investment. The debate is on for decades now, as to who should decide on what to spend and how much? For long in the name of CSR activities businesses have been spending on initiatives that were either a part of owner's choice or were easy to identify and implement, mostly avoiding the views of stakeholders inside as well as outside. This paper attempts to address broadly the issue of stakeholder confidence and preference in a CSR initiative. The paper suggests a model of engagement of stakeholders both within and outside of a business for the roll out of a CSR initiative.

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“…In that perspective, the key strategic issue is no longer that of defining what is right in itself, but rather understanding what ''behaving as a responsible company'' might mean within the multiple inter-dependent relationships that bond the company to various stakeholders within different cultures and territories (Palmer and Stoll, 2011). That is why Marc Lampe helpfully points out that feminist ethics favours mediation over confrontational attitudes between the company and its stakeholders that will always create sensitive issues (Lampe, 2001).…”

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“…For supporters of the application of an ethic of care in business life, it is essential to overcome the assumptions usually used in managerial theory and to recognise that business activity is dependent on a certain number of key relationships beyond contractual relationships. In that perspective, the key strategic issue is no longer that of defining what is right in itself, but rather understanding what ''behaving as a responsible company'' might mean within the multiple inter-dependent relationships that bond the company to various stakeholders within different cultures and territories (Palmer and Stoll, 2011). That is why Marc Lampe helpfully points out that feminist ethics favours mediation over confrontational attitudes between the company and its stakeholders that will always create sensitive issues (Lampe, 2001).…”

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Young people as company stakeholders? Moving beyond CSR…

Ville

2014

Young Consumers

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/ authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The case of corporations establishing a relationship with young people -because of the moral responsibility involved -allows us to illustrate the complexities of trying to decide what is morally correct to collectively ensure children's well-being. This paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach -Applying the ''stakeholder theory'' to child industries -under which term this paper includes all business activities that establish a commercial relationship involving children, either as the recipient or user of the final product or beneficiary of a specific service, or as a co-decision-maker for purchases within his/her family or social circles -reveals a series of conceptual challenges...Findings -The limited understanding of stakeholder theory within the CSR managerial perspective leads companies to overlook some important moral issues about children's well-being, and exposes them to particularly hard criticisms of their actions and marketing policies. Research limitations/implications -If children have been overlooked by the stakeholder theory, how may the interests of youth be represented in a stakeholder perspective?Practical implications -To deal with some of the dilemmas entailed by considering children's representatives as legitimate spokespersons, the paper suggests drawing on the ethics of care to attempt delineating a corporate social responsibility towards young people.Originality/value -This paper emphasises a number of issues relevant to young consumers, including the absence of children in stakeholder theory and how that absence speaks to the presumed extent and boundaries of corporate social responsibility.

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Moving Toward a More Caring Stakeholder Theory: Global Business Ethics in Dialogue with the Feminist Ethics of Care

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Imagining a different voice: A critical and caring approach to management education

Imagining a different voice: A critical and caring approach to management education

Who Decides on What to Spend in CSR? Moving from Compulsion to Consensus

Young people as company stakeholders? Moving beyond CSR…

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