Capitalism, corporations and the social contract: a critique of stakeholder theory

"In whose interests should a corporation be run? Over the last thirty years the field of 'stakeholder theory' has proposed a distinctive answer: a corporation should be run in the interests of all its primary stakeholders - including employees, customers, suppliers and financiers - wi...

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Main Author: Mansell, Samuel F. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press c 2013
In:Year: 2013
Reviews:Capitalism, Corporations and the Social Contract: A Critique of Stakeholder Theory, by Samuel Mansell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 198 pp. ISBN: 9781107015524 (2015) (Néron, Pierre-Yves)
Series/Journal:Business, value creation and society
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Enterprise / Social responsibility / Business ethics / Stakeholder (corporate)
Further subjects:B Corporate social responsibility
B Social Contract
B Stakeholder (corporate)
B Capitalism Moral and ethical aspects
B Enterprise
B Social contract
B Social responsibility of business
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505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. An introduction to stakeholder theory; 3. The philosophy of stakeholder theory; 4. The corporation as a private association in a market economy; 5. The corporation as a sovereign power; 6. Shareholder theory and its limitations; 7. Conclusion; References. 
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