Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik

Editorial

The Stakeholder Approach Revisited

The purpose of this paper is to revisit the development of the stakeholder management approach developed in "Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach" published by Pitman Publishing in 1984. A brief history of the development of this approach is followed by a summary and an assessment of the main arguments. The approach has been used in a number of research streams which are outlined. The paper ends with some suggestions for promising lines of inquiry.

Professionsökonomik, Verträge Und Vertrauen: Zur Mikrofundierung Professioneller Dienstleistungen Durch Die Agenturtheorie Am Beispiel Der Sozialen Arbeit*

This article deals with economic-orientated reforms of the welfare state and social administration, which have an impact on the professional services. The Principal-Agent-Theory is applied to the relationship between social worker, social service organisation and service user in order to concentrate on incentive-oriented problems and asymmetric information. The main thesis proposes that professionals have dual accountabilities; they deal with two distinct fundamental principles of organisatio...

Unternehmensethische Untersuchungen Aus Gesellschaftlicher Perspektive*: Von Der Gesellschaftsorientierten Unternehmenslehre Zur Unternehmensorientierten Gesellschaftslehre

In this paper we suggest to move forward from the firm-centered perspective of stakeholder management toward societal perspectives that highlight network-kind relations between different (types of) organizations. Here, insights from neo-institutional approaches in Sociology help to develop a theoretical perspective that stresses the relevance of institutional mechanisms and institutional entrepreneurs within organizational fields. This cultural and institutional perspective enables 1. to dete...

A Moral Stakeholder Theory of the Firm*

To be a coherent and genuinely alternative conception to the shareholder model, any moral stakeholder theory must meet the following conditions: 1. It must be an ethical theory. 2. It must identify a limited group as stakeholders. 3. The group must be identified on morally relevant grounds. 4. Stakeholder claims must be non-universal, and 5. not held against everyone. A principle for identifying the stakeholder is suggested as a person who has much to lose-financially, socially, or psychologi...

What Can the Stakeholder Theory Learn From Enron?*

Roughly speaking, Enron has done for reflection on corporate governance what AIDS did for research on the immune system. So far, however, virtually all of this reflection on and subsequent reform of governance has come from those with a stake in the success of modern capitalism. This paper identifies a number of governance challenges for critics of capitalism, and in particular for those who urge corporations to voluntarily adopt missions of broader social responsibility and equal treatment f...

Ein Gespräch Mit Julia Kropf Über Ihre Dissertation

Der Bachelor- Und Masterstudiengang Philosophy &Amp; Economics an Der Universität Bayreuth

Unternehmensethische Untersuchungen Aus 'Gesellschaftlicher Perspektive'?

Stakeholder Theory Between General and Contextual Approaches - a German View

The old saying ascribed to Sir Isaac Newton that seeing further by standing on the shoulders of giants addresses a fundamental principle of scientific progress. It is by exchanging ideas and by further elaborating already existing ideas that science can be advanced. Freeman did not start from scratch, and in the German-language literature, the stakeholder approach also proceeded through connecting ideas to existing concepts. This article outlines some of the basic differences, which influence...

Zum Verhältnis von (Professions-)Ethik Und Ökonomik

Two Approaches to Stakeholder Identification*

This paper presents two fundamentally different ways to approach the identification of stakeholders. The first is the relationship approach. According to this approach, special obligations arise between individuals or groups only if a specific relationship exists between them. The rival approach is the assignment approach. This approach challenges the claim that obligations only arise if a particular relationship exists between the company and a group. It holds that the distribution of respon...

Partnerschaften Zwischen Unternehmen Und Un Kritisch Beleuchtet - 'Development at Risk' von Ann Zammit

Partnerschaften zwischen Unternehmen und UN kritisch beleuchtet - "Development at Risk," by An Zammit, is reviewed.

Flexibilisierung - Subjektivierung - Anerkennung: Anerkennungstheoretische Implikationen von Flexibilisierungsmaßnahmen in Unternehmen Und Ihre Auswirkungen Auf Die Selbstverwirklichungsprozesse Der Mitarbeiter

Der Botos Approach von Wisotren: Eine Chance Für Entwicklungsländer Und Unternehmen

Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen Im Rainer Hampp Verlag

Werte- Und Reputationsmanagement

Soziales Engagement von Banken. Entwicklung Eines Adaptiven Und Innovativen Konzeptansatzes Im Sinne Des Corporate Citizenship von Banken in Deutschland