Corporate citizenship: Toward an extended theoretical conceptualization

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Matten, D; Crane, A
• 署名单位: University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of Nottingham
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/AMR.2005.15281448
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 166-179
• 关键词: ANTECEDENTS

摘要

We critically examine the content of contemporary understandings of corporate citizenship and locate them within the extant body of research dealing with business-society relations. Our main purpose is to realize a theoretically informed definition of corporate citizenship that is descriptively robust and conceptually distinct from existing concepts in the literature. Specifically, our extended perspective exposes the element of citizenship and conceptualizes corporate citizenship as the administration of a bundle of individual citizenship rights-social, civil, and political-conventionally granted and protected by governments.