The Imperfect Nature of Corporate Responsibilities to Stakeholders

In this paper, I specifically consider the issue of corporate governance and normative stakeholder theory. In doing so, I argue that stakeholder theory and responsibilities to non-shareholder constituencies can be made more intelligible by reference to Kant’s conception of perfect and imperfect duti...

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Main Author: Lea, David (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2004
In: Business ethics quarterly
Year: 2004, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 201-217
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