Evaluating Stakeholder Theory

J. Kaler ()

Journal of Business Ethics, 2006, vol. 69, issue 3, 249-268

Abstract: This paper is the third in a series of four that is directed at understanding and assessing stakeholder theory for the purposes of business ethics. It addresses the suitability and viability of the theory, rejecting objections of a moral and efficiency sort based (respectively) on claims about property rights and the economic superiority of the alternative stockholder approach, but accepting that implementation problems require limiting both the number of groupings admitted to stakeholder status and the degree of responsibility towards them. The conclusion looks forward to the construction of a suitably limited version of the stakeholder approach in a fourth paper drawing upon this one and the previous two. Copyright Springer 2006

Keywords: Anglo-Saxon economies; claimant; corporate social responsibility; Germany; influencer; Japan; stakeholder; stakeholder economies; stakeholder identification; stockholder; stockholder economies; UK; US. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9089-2

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