Stakeholder theory and organizational ethics / / Robert Phillips

• Autore: Phillips Robert <1968->
• Pubblicazione: San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 200 p
• Disciplina: 174/.4
• Soggetto topico: Corporate governance; Business ethics
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-190) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Preface -- 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 -- What Stakeholder Theory Is -- Critical Distortions: Straw-Persons and Evil Genies -- Friendly Misinterpretations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Why Organizational Ethics? -- Why a Theory of Organizational Ethics? -- Limitations of Political Theory for Organizations -- Limitations of Moral Philosophy for Organizations -- Toward an Ethics of Organizations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Stakeholder Theory and Its Critics -- Stakeholder Distinctions -- Stakeholders, Agency Theory, and Fiduciary Duties -- Stakeholder Theory and the Place of Fairness -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: A Principle of Stakeholder Fairness -- A Principle of Fairness -- Obligations -- Defending Fairness -- Fairness and Consent -- Fairness and Integrative Social Contracts Theory -- On the Question of Justification -- Discourse Ethics and the Content of Stakeholder Obligations -- Stakeholders As Analytic to Business -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Stakeholder Legitimacy -- Legitimacy in Stakeholder Theory -- Legitimacy in Stakeholder Research: Normative and Derivative Perspectives -- Legitimacy in Practice -- Chapter 7: Stakeholder Identity -- The Natural Environment As a Stakeholder -- Problems with the Natural Environment As a Stakeholder -- The Natural Environment and Community Stakeholders -- Social Activists As Stakeholders -- Activist Groups and Civil Disobedience. ; Civil Disobedience and Stakeholder Theory -- Conclusion -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Stakeholder theory and organizational ethics
• ISBN: 1-283-26876-0; 9786613268761; 1-60509-817-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827464203321
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