Zusammenfassung
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 psychologically - by the failure of the firm. The emerging picture contrasts sharply with the conventional conception of the firm.
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A Moral Stakeholder Theory of the Firm*
1. The State We're In
Stakeholder Theory is in disarray. There is no shortage of Stakeholder (SH) theories proposing distinct ways of perceiving the organization or firm, and diverse oudooks with respect to its ethical obligations. Each theorist and each ethicist has her own proposal of what SH theory requires. Conflicting alternative statements are sometimes advanced by a single figure or Luminary in the Stakeholder Theory literature.There is at most a very slim shared understanding of what SH theory is all about. In its essence it is a normative method of managing a firm to the benefit of groups and individuals in addition to the shareholders in whose benefit the conventional management model requires that it should be run.1 Who might these groups and individuals be? What qualifies them as such? These are questions to which there are no agree...Siehe den Gesamtinhalt dieses Dokumentes
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