Toward a political conception of corporate responsibility: Business and society seen from a Habermasian perspective

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Scherer, Andreas Georg; Palazzo, Guido
• 署名单位: University of Zurich; University of Lausanne
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/AMR.2007.26585837
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 1096-1120
• 关键词: SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY; Stakeholder theory; DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; ETHICS; ORGANIZATION; legitimacy; search; MARKET; INCOMMENSURABILITY

摘要

We review two important schools within business and society research, which we label positivist and postpositivist corporate social responsibility (CSR). The former is criticized because of its instrumentalism and normative vacuity and the latter because of its relativism, foundationalism, and utopianism. We propose a new approach, based on Jurgen Habermas's theory of democracy, and we define the new role of the business firm as a political actor in a globalizing society.