Corporate Social Responsibility and the Priority of Shareholders

In a series of articles, Thomas Dunfee defended the view that managers are permitted and at times, required, to utilize corporate resources to alleviate human misery even if this is at the expense of shareholder interests. In this article, I summarize Dunfee’s defense of this view, raise some questi...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics
Main Author: Hsieh, Nien-hê (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2009
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 88, Issue: 4, Pages: 553-560
Further subjects:B Corporate Citizenship
B Corporate social responsibility
B Corporate governance
B Stakeholder Theory
B Shareholder primacy
B social initiatives
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Summary:In a series of articles, Thomas Dunfee defended the view that managers are permitted and at times, required, to utilize corporate resources to alleviate human misery even if this is at the expense of shareholder interests. In this article, I summarize Dunfee’s defense of this view, raise some questions about his account and propose ways in which to answer these questions. The aim of this article is to highlight one of Dunfee’s contributions to the debate about corporate governance and corporate responsibility.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0314-7