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- Title
THE POLITICS OF STAKEHOLDER THEORY: SOME FUTURE DIRECTIONS.
- Authors
Freeman, R. Edward
- Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to enter the conversation about stakeholder theory with the goal of clarifying certain foundational issues. I want to show, along with Boatright, that there is no stakeholder paradox, and that the principle on which such a paradox is built, the Separation Thesis, is nicely self-serving to business and ethics academics. If we give up such a thesis we find there is no stakeholder theory but that stakeholder theory becomes a genre that is quite rich. It becomes one of many ways to blend together the central concepts of business with those of ethics. Rather than take each concept of business singly or the whole of "business" together and hold it to the light of ethical standards, we can use the stakeholder concept to create more fine-grained analyses that combine business and ethics; or more simply, we can tell many more, and more interesting, stories about business.
- Publication
Business Ethics Quarterly, 1994, Vol 4, Issue 4, p409
- ISSN
1052-150X
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.2307/3857340