Stakeholder theory and organizational ethics / Robert Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Robert, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate governance.

Business ethics.

Physical Description:

xii, 200 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

What Stakeholder Theory Is

Critical Distortions: Straw-Persons and Evil Genies

Friendly Misinterpretations

Conclusion

Why a Theory of Organizational Ethics?

Limitations of Political Theory for Organizations

Limitations of Moral Philosophy for Organizations

Toward an Ethics of Organizations

Stakeholder Distinctions

Stakeholders, Agency Theory, and Fiduciary Duties

Stakeholder Theory and the Place of 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

Legitimacy in Stakeholder Theory

Legitimacy in Stakeholder Research: Normative and Derivative Perspectives

Legitimacy in Practice

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

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-190) and index.

ISBN:

9786613268761

9781283268769

1283268760

9781605098173

1605098175

OCLC:

751963557