Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts

Authors: Mitchell, Ronald K.; Agle, Bradley R.; Wood, Donna J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Review 1997, Volume 22, No. 4, pp. 853-886
Publication Year: 1997

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This discussion of stakeholder theory argues that stakeholders possess one or more of three relationship attributes: power, legitimacy and urgency.

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For Whom are Corporate Managers Trustees?

Author: Dodd, E. Merrick
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Law Review, 1932 vol. 45 no. 7: 1145–1163
Publication Year: 1932

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The author argues that public opinion is moving toward a view of business corporations as institutions with a social service as well as a profit-making function...

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Doing Better at Doing Good: When, Why and How Consumers Respond to Corporate Social Initiatives

Authors: Bhattacharya, C.B.; Sen, Sankar
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2004

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Although companies are devoting significant resources to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, insights into the optimal formulation, implementation, and effectiveness estimation of CSR strategies are currently scarce. This article takes an in-depth look at when, why, and how CSR works from a consumer's perspective...

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The Moral Muteness of Managers

Authors: Bird, Frederick B.; Waters, James A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review, vol. 32 (no. 1), pp. 73-88. 1989.
Publication Year: 1989

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Pinto Fires and Personal Ethics: A Script Analysis of Missed Opportunities

Author: Gioia, Dennis A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics. Vol. 11, Issue 5-6.
Publication Year: 1992

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This article details the personal involvement of the author in the early stages of the infamous Pinto fire case. The paper first presents an insider account of the context and decision environment within which he failed to initiate an early recall of defective vehicles.

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How Advertising Practitioners View Ethics: Moral Muteness, Moral Myopia, and Moral Imagination

Authors: Drumwright, Minette E.; Murphy, Patrick E.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Copyright © 2004 by American Academy of Advertising. From Journal of Advertising, vol. 33, no. 2 (Summer 2004). Used with permission of M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. Not for reproduction. This article is available for download to registered faculty users. All other users please see the link to the Journal of Advertising listed below.
Publication Year: 2004

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This study examines how advertising agency personnel perceive, process, and think about ethical issues

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International Marketing Ethics From An Islamic Perspective: A Value-Maximization Approach

Authors: Saeed, Mohammad; Ahmed, Zafar; Mukhtar, Syeda-Masooda
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics. Vol. 32, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2001

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This article discusses the characteristics, capabilities, and strengths of the Islamic ethical framework for international marketing.

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The Great Leap: Driving Innovation From the Base of the Pyramid

Authors: Hart, Stuart L.; Christensen, Clayton M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review. Fall 2002, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 51-56
Publication Year: 2002

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As multinationals unrelentingly seek new growth to satisfy shareholders, they increasingly hear concerns from many quarters about environmental degradation, labor exploitation, cultural hegemony and local autonomy. What is to be done? Must corporations' thirst for growth and profits serve only to exacerbate the antiglobalization movement?

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Creating a Climate and Culture for Sustainable Organizational Change

Authors: Brief, Arthur P.; Schneider, Benjamin; Guzzo, Richard A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Organizational Dynamics, Volume 24, Spring, 1996, pp. 7-19
Publication Year: 1996

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This article argues that only when organizational change is accompanied by changes in the psychology of the people in the organization will it be successful...

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A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law

Authors: Blair, Margaret; Stout, Lynn A.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Journal Articles
Source: Virginia Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 248-328.
Publication Year: 1999

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Contemporary corporate scholarship generally assumes that the central economic problem addressed by corporation law is getting managers and directors to act as loyal agents for shareholders. We take issue with this approach and argue that the unique legal rules governing publicly-held corporations are instead designed primarily to address a different problem - the "team production" problem - that arises when a number of individuals must invest firm-specific resources to produce a nonseparable output...

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