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Toward a political conception of corporate responsibility: Business and society seen from a habermasian perspective

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: We review two important schools within business and society research, which we label positivist and postpositivist corporate social responsibility (CSR). The former is criticized because of its instrumentalism and normative vacuity and the latter because of its relativism, foundationalism, and utopianism. We propose a new approach, based on Jürgen Habermas's theory of democracy, and we define the new role of the business firm as a political actor in a globalizing society.

Source: Academy of Management Review

DOI: 10.5465/amr.2007.26585837

Authors: Andreas Georg Scherer, Guido Palazzo

Institutions: University of Zurich, University of Lausanne

Language: English

Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2112336944

FWCI: 117.4

Cites: 263

Cited by: 1,823

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