Corporate responsibility and legitimacy: an interdisciplinary analysis

Abstract

Preface The Assumptions of Corporate Responsibility The Corporate Responsibility Debate The Corporation and Responsibility The Types of Corporate Responsibility The Relations of Accountability Models of the Corporation--I Models of the Corporation--II Theories of Institutional Legitimacy The Four Theories of Corporate Responsibility The Classical Theory of Corporate Responsibility The Response to the Classical Theory The Stakeholder Theory The Social Demandingness Theory The Social Activist Theory The Question of Plant Relocation or Closing--I The Question of Plant Relocation or Closing--II Collective and Subordinate Responsibility Individual and Collective Responsibility The Responsibility of Subordinates The Corporate Responsibility Debate Bibliographic Essay Indexes