Capitalism, corporations and the social contract a critique of stakeholder theory /

"In whose interests should a corporation be run? Over the last thirty years the field of 'stakeholder theory' has proposed a distinctive answer: a corporation should be run in the interests of all its primary stakeholders - including employees, customers, suppliers and financiers - wi...

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Main Author: Mansell, Samuel F.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Business, value creation, and society
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245 1 0 |a Capitalism, corporations and the social contract  |h [electronic resource] :  |b a critique of stakeholder theory /  |c Samuel F. Mansell. 
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300 |a xi, 185 p. 
440 0 |a Business, value creation, and society 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. An introduction to stakeholder theory; 3. The philosophy of stakeholder theory; 4. The corporation as a private association in a market economy; 5. The corporation as a sovereign power; 6. Shareholder theory and its limitations; 7. Conclusion; References. 
520 |a "In whose interests should a corporation be run? Over the last thirty years the field of 'stakeholder theory' has proposed a distinctive answer: a corporation should be run in the interests of all its primary stakeholders - including employees, customers, suppliers and financiers - without contradicting the ethical principles on which capitalism stands. This book offers a critique of this central claim. It argues that by applying the political concept of a 'social contract' to the corporation, stakeholder theory in fact undermines the principles on which a market economy is based. The argument builds upon an extensive review of the stakeholder literature and an analysis of its philosophical foundations, particularly concerning the social contract tradition of John Rawls and his predecessors. The book concludes by offering a qualified version of Milton Friedman's shareholder theory as a more justifiable account of the purpose of a corporation"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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