Capitalism, Corporations and the Social Contract: A Critique of Stakeholder Theory, by Samuel Mansell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 198 pp. ISBN: 9781107015524

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-396
Author(s):  
Pierre-Yves Néron
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Social

Millennial Reservations

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa H. Newton
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The Social

Abstract:The decade in which the Business Ethics Quarterly has flourished has been a good one for business and business ethics, in which new guiding theories (like stakeholder theory), new interpretations of older ethical concepts (trust, virtue, and the social contract, for instance), and whole new paradigms of doing business (the Triple Bottom Line) have entered the literature. But practice has not kept up with theory, and the theoretical gains seem to be offset by terrible losses in the temperance of greed, the fostering of trustworthiness, and sensitivity to the natural environment.

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