Recognition Based upon the Vitality Criterion: A Key to Sustainable Economic Success

Alexander Brink () and Johannes Eurich ()

Journal of Business Ethics, 2006, vol. 67, issue 2, 155-164

Abstract: Recognition is a basic precondition of participation. This article applies the dimension of recognition to business ethics. A case is made for normative stakeholder management as a voluntary commitment at the level of corporate leadership; this also meets management’s strategic demands. A vitality criterion is offered as a heuristic instrument, suggesting that any operation should be avoided which would violate the legitimate interests of stakeholders. For this reason, the recognition of mutually-conditioned stakeholder claims is understood as the central management idea. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006

Keywords: social exclusion/inclusion; recognition; social justice; ethical leadership; business ethics; stakeholder management; vitality criterion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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