New directions in corporate social responsibility

Bowie, Norman E.

doi:10.1016/0007-6813(91)90007-i

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“…From a P-O fit (and career fit) perspective, more ethically idealistic people will likely be happier working for a firm that is altruistic, caring, and responsive to the various ways it can impact stakeholders. Our findings suggest that students high in ethical idealism, for instance, would be more likely to embrace firms with a stakeholder theory perspective rather than a classical or moral minimum (Bowie, 1991) position. Conversely, students with highly relativistic ethical attitudes or materialistic values may prefer firms that pursue financial objectives above all else.…”

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confidence: 77%

Attitudes About Corporate Social Responsibility: Business Student Predictors

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Section: Implications For Teaching and Practicementioning

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Attitudes About Corporate Social Responsibility: Business Student Predictors

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“…The debate reflects different perspectives on this relationship. At one end of the spectrum, neoclassical economic ideology sees a profit-maximising corporation as isolated and in competition with other corporations, with government and with the labour force (Bowie 1991). At the other end of the spectrum is the stakeholder view of a corporation, as a network of relationships and stakeholder interests -of managers, other employees, shareholders, customers, suppliers, local communities, government regulators and legislators, political groups and activists (Donaldson & Preston 1995;Freeman & Liedtka 1991;J.A.…”

Section: Lowering the Barriers To Private Sector Participation In Sanmentioning

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Can corporate social responsibility resolve the sanitation question in developing Asian countries?

Abeysuriya¹,

Mitchell²,

White³

2007

Ecological Economics

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The existing state of sanitation in developing Asian countries fails to deliver a level of service that is adequate for meeting the human right to a standard of living consistent with dignity and health, or for sustaining the capacity for future generations to have access to clean water resources and healthy ecosystems. We argue that translating the current neo-centralised technologies and institutional arrangements mainstreamed by industrialised countries would not resolve the problem in the context of developing countries. Instead it is necessary to 'leap frog' to the emerging technological and institutional arrangements that are responsive to current needs and contexts and to potential risks. The sustainability focus and often decentralised technologies of this emergent stage in sanitation present many opportunities for new actors to enter the urban sanitation industry. At the same time, there are many barriers to entry, particularly from the perspective of conventional business management focused on increasing shareholder value.We propose that perspectives from the corporate social responsibility discourse have the potential to provide both the 'pull' for seizing the business opportunity for profit while serving social needs, and the 'push' to overcome the barriers in order to serve a wider social purpose for corporations. The wealth of nations, at least as reported in ubiquitous GDP terms, has greatly increased through the activities of corporations driven by a profit motive; but the increased poverty, injustice and ecosystem degradation that has resulted from economic activity suggests that corporations perhaps ought to have regard for broader concerns beyond shareholder value. We explore how the alternative relational view of a corporation, as a metaphorical person within society who adopts a moral code consistent with both Buddhist economics and Adam Smith's philosophy, may facilitate profitable corporations that provide better economic, ecological and social outcomes in serving the need for sustainable sanitation services in developing Asian countries.

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“…Supporters of normative stakeholder theory have attempted to justify it through arguments taken from Kantian capitalism (Bowie, 1991;Evan and Freeman, 1988), modern theories of property and distributive justice (Donaldson and Preston, 1995), and also Libertarian theories with its notions of freedom, rights and consent (Freeman and Philips, 2002).…”

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Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory

Garriga¹,

Mêlé

2004

Journal of Business Ethics

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ABSTRACT. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) field presents not only a landscape of theories but also a proliferation of approaches, which are controversial, complex and unclear. This article tries to clarify the situation, ''mapping the territory'' by classifying the main CSR theories and related approaches in four groups: (1) instrumental theories, in which the corporation is seen as only an instrument for wealth creation, and its social activities are only a means to achieve economic results; (2) political theories, which concern themselves with the power of corporations in society and a responsible use of this power in the political arena; (3) integrative theories, in which the corporation is focused on the satisfaction of social demands; and (4) ethical theories, based on ethical responsibilities of corporations to society. In practice, each CSR theory presents four dimensions related to profits, political performance, social demands and ethical values. The findings suggest the necessity to develop a new theory on the business and society relationship, which should integrate these four dimensions.

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New directions in corporate social responsibility

Cited by 91 publications

References 4 publications

Attitudes About Corporate Social Responsibility: Business Student Predictors

Attitudes About Corporate Social Responsibility: Business Student Predictors

Can corporate social responsibility resolve the sanitation question in developing Asian countries?

Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory

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