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Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics

by Robert Phillips

September 2003

Intermediate to advanced

216 pages

5h 33m

English

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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Stakeholder TheoryChapter 2: The Limits of Stakeholder TheoryChapter 3: Why Organizational Ethics?Chapter 4: Stakeholder Theory and Its CriticsChapter 5: A Principle of Stakeholder FairnessChapter 6: Stakeholder LegitimacyChapter 7: Stakeholder IdentityChapter 8: Stakeholder Theory in Practice
What Stakeholder Theory IsCritical Distortions: Straw-Persons and Evil GeniesFriendly MisinterpretationsConclusion
Why a Theory of Organizational Ethics?Limitations of Political Theory for OrganizationsLimitations of Moral Philosophy for OrganizationsToward an Ethics of OrganizationsConclusion
Stakeholder DistinctionsStakeholders, Agency Theory, and Fiduciary DutiesStakeholder Theory and the Place of FairnessConclusion
A Principle of FairnessObligationsDefending FairnessFairness and ConsentFairness and Integrative Social Contracts TheoryOn the Question of JustificationDiscourse Ethics and the Content of Stakeholder ObligationsStakeholders As Analytic to BusinessConclusion

Legitimacy in Stakeholder TheoryLegitimacy in Stakeholder Research: Normative and Derivative PerspectivesLegitimacy in Practice
The Natural Environment As a StakeholderProblems with the Natural Environment As a StakeholderThe Natural Environment and Community StakeholdersSocial Activists As StakeholdersActivist Groups and Civil DisobedienceCivil Disobedience and Stakeholder TheoryConclusion
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 PracticeOther Challenges to Stakeholder Theory

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Chapter 2The Limits of Stakeholder Theory

The term stakeholder is a powerful one due, to a significant degree, to its conceptual breadth. Because the term means many different things to many different people, it evokes praise or scorn from scholars and practitioners of myriad academic disciplines and backgrounds. Such breadth of interpretation, though one of stakeholder theory’s greatest strengths, is also one of its most prominent theoretical liabilities as a topic of reasoned discourse. Much of the power of stakeholder theory is a direct result of the fact that, when used unreflectively, its managerial prescriptions and implications are nearly ...