Framing business ethics

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Responsibility lies in individuals, corporations dont have agency independent of their members

* there is a corpoate internal decision structure (pre-determined goals, no individual decisions)
* there is an organizational culture

Moral arguments for CSR:

* corporations should solve the social problem they cause
* use resources responsibly in society
* actions of corporations have social impact
* shareholders are not the only stakeholders

Model of Carroll CSR

  • economic responsibilities (return on investment, wages, safe working environment)
  • legal responsibilities (codification of society's moral view)
  • ethical responsibilities (climate change)
  • philantropic responsibilities (love of the fellow human)
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Responses to social pressures:

  • reaction (avoid responsibility)
  • defence (admits, but fights it)
  • accommodation ( accepts, and does what groups demand of them)
  • pro-action (beyond the norms(

Corporate Social Performance

  • social policies (vission, mission)
  • social programmes (activities, measures, instruments)
  • social impacts (concrete changes)

Different forms of stakeholder theory:

  • normative stakeholder theory (shoul take into account stakeholder interests)
  • descriptive theory ( whether and how actually do take into account these interests)
  • instrumental theory (beneficial for the corporation to take into account these interests)

Firms have become more and more political actors:

* governmental failure
* increasing power and influence of corporations

CC three perspectives:

  • limited view (direct physical environment, local community, company should do something back)
  • equivalent view (updated label for CSR, broad range of stakeholders)
  • extended view (individual rights)

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