The Corporation as Citoyen? Towards a New Understanding of Corporate Citizenship

Aßländer, Michael S.; Curbach, Janina

doi:10.1007/s10551-013-2004-8

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“…Morality as driver of SE advocates for dialogue, social justice, whiteness, and pedagogy of diversity to be introduced in business processes by conceiving SE as the catalyst of an ideal democratic principle of corporate management (O'Dwyer, 2005). In moral SE, corporations become part of the political community and are inspired by the will to contribute to society getting involved in public discourse, civil endeavors, and political rule-making (Aßländer & Curbach, 2014) to develop and maintain high-quality stakeholder relationships (Waddock, 2002). While in the past stakeholders were seen primarily as passive subjects, moral engagement raises stakeholders at the same dialogical level of the firm, encouraging partnerships and collaborations (Andriof & Waddock, 2002) toward the pursuit of mutually legitimate goals based on a more inclusive decision-making process (Andriof & Waddock, 2002;Harrison & St. John, 1996).…”

Section: Stakeholder Engagement: Current Dominant Perspectivesmentioning

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“…The role corporations should play in society in terms of their social engagement and ethical responsibilities has been increasingly questioned in recent times (Aßländer & Curbach, 2014;Buchholtz & Carroll, 2009;Leisinger, 2009). Governments, activists, communities and stakeholders in general expect companies to account for the social consequences of their activities (Porter & Kramer, 2006) and to act as if they were metaphorically citizens in that their commitments to society resemble those of citizens (Moon, Crane, & Matten, 2005).…”

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Stakeholder Engagement beyond the Tension between Idealism and Practical Concerns

Biraghi¹,

Gambetti²,

Romenti³

2017

IJBM

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This paper digs into the existing controversial literature on stakeholder engagement (SE) to understand and critically confront with ambivalence in the concept. This is done by exploring how SE is conceptually framed and pragmatically pursued in the representations of current business practices. The study is designed according to a qualitative interpretive approach based on depth interviews with a purposively selected theoretical sample of key informants with established expertise in stakeholder relationship management practices. According to our findings, SE appears torn between an idealistic impetus on the fringe of a utopian vision of the business, and its often trivial translation into practice urged by the pragmatic necessity to meet accountability requirements. This tension stems from corporate governance logics and organizational business models of firms, which are often not prone to guarantee the participatory and genuinely dialogic exchange between company and stakeholders advocated by the idealistic mandate of SE. In terms of contribution the paper provides a critical inductive reconstruction of current meanings and clashes embedded in enacting SE.

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Section: Stakeholder Engagement: Current Dominant Perspectivesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Stakeholder Engagement beyond the Tension between Idealism and Practical Concerns

Biraghi¹,

Gambetti²,

Romenti³

2017

IJBM

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“…Corporations are designed to be economic citizens whose main purpose is to succeed in the marketplace and to generate profits on behalf of the companies' owners. Thus, corporations are granted legal personhood status as bourgeois (Aßländer & Curbach, 2014). As corporate bourgeois, the corporation is a full member of the economic sphere and the private sector, and therefore enjoys the freedom to follow its own self-serving economic interests within legal boundaries.…”

Section: Two Spheres Of Corporate Citizenry-corporate Bourgeois and Cmentioning

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Corporate or Governmental Duties? Corporate Citizenship From a Governmental Perspective

Aßländer

Curbach

2016

Business & Society

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Recent discussions on corporate citizenship (CC) highlight the new political role of corporations in society by arguing that corporations increasingly act as quasi-governmental actors and take on what hitherto had originally been governmental tasks. By examining political and sociological citizenship theories, the authors show that such a corporate engagement can be explained by a changing (self-)conception of corporate citizens from corporate bourgeois to corporate citoyen. As an intermediate actor in society, the corporate citoyen assumes co-responsibilities for social and civic affairs and actively collaborates with fellow citizens beyond governmental regulation. This change raises the question of how such corporate civic engagement can be aligned with public policy regulations and how corporate activities can be integrated into the democratic regime. To clarify the mode of CC contributions to society, the authors will apply the tenet of subsidiarity as a governing principle which allows for specifying corporations' tasks as intermediate actors in society. By referring to the renewed European Union strategy for Corporate Social Responsibility, the authors show how such a subsidiary corporate-governmental task-sharing can be organized.

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“…Habermas' theory of communicative action is one of them (Reynolds and Yuthas 2008). Social contracts theories (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) and virtue ethics (Aristotle) constitute other paths to ethical discourse (Aßländer and Curbach 2014). Kantianism and Rawlsian theory of justice could also be used to give depth and meaning to corporate moral discourse (Hahn 2009).…”

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Corporate Citizenship, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability Reports as “Would-be” Narratives

Dion

2017

Humanist Manag J

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The Corporation as Citoyen? Towards a New Understanding of Corporate Citizenship

Cited by 50 publications

References 24 publications

Stakeholder Engagement beyond the Tension between Idealism and Practical Concerns

Stakeholder Engagement beyond the Tension between Idealism and Practical Concerns

Corporate or Governmental Duties? Corporate Citizenship From a Governmental Perspective

Corporate Citizenship, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability Reports as “Would-be” Narratives

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