Book description
Business ethics is a staple in the news today. One of the most difficult ethical questions facing managers is to whom are they responsible? Organizations can affect and are affected by many different constituencies—or “stakeholders”—but who are these stakeholders? What sort of managerial attention should they receive? Is there a legal duty to attend to stakeholders or is such a duty legally prohibited due to the shareholder wealth maximization imperative? In short, for whose benefit ought a firm be managed?Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics provides the most comprehensive, theoretical treatment of the stakeholder framework to date. Robert Phillips provides an extended defense of stakeholder theory as the preeminent theory of organizational ethics today.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Foreword
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Dogma
- Stakeholder Theory
- Chapter 2: The Limits of Stakeholder Theory
- Chapter 3: Why Organizational Ethics?
- Chapter 4: Stakeholder Theory and Its Critics
- Chapter 5: A Principle of Stakeholder Fairness
- Chapter 6: Stakeholder Legitimacy
- Chapter 7: Stakeholder Identity
- Chapter 8: Stakeholder Theory in Practice
- Chapter 2: The Limits of Stakeholder Theory
- Chapter 3: Why Organizational Ethics?
- Chapter 4: Stakeholder Theory and Its Critics
- Chapter 5: A Principle of Stakeholder Fairness
- Chapter 6: Stakeholder Legitimacy
- Chapter 7: Stakeholder Identity
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Chapter 8: Stakeholder Theory in Practice
- Why Should Managers Pay Attention to Stakeholders?
- Who Are an Organization’s Stakeholders and What Is the Basis for Their Legitimacy?
- What Do Stakeholders Want?
- How Should Managers Prioritize among Stakeholders?
- Are the Ethics of Business Different from Everyday Ethics?
- Stakeholder Best Practice
- Other Challenges to Stakeholder Theory
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About The Author
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Product information
- Title: Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2003
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781605098173
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