Moralising the Market by Moralising the Firm: Towards a Firm-Oriented Perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-31

  Knippenberg, Luuk ^a   de Jong, Edwin B P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corporate Social Responsibility; evolutionary economics; firms; markets; morality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960834375     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0446-9     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Acemoglu, D., J. A Robinson, S. Johnson. (2000). The colonial origins of comparative development: an emprical investigation. Cambridge, USA/MA: MIT, Department of Economics.
2. Amaeshi, K. M. and B. Adi (2007). Reconstructing the corporate social responsibility construct in Utlish, Business Ethics: a European Review, 16 (1), 3-18.
3. Arrow, K. J. (1950). A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare. Journal of Political Economy, 58(4), 328-346.
4. Barney, J. B., William Hesterly. (1999). Organizational Economics: understanding the relationship between organizations and economic analysis. In S. R. C. a. C. Hardy (Ed.), Studying Organisation: theory & method (pp. 109-141). London: Sage.
5. Beinhocker, E. D. (2006). The Origin of Wealth: evolution, complexity and the radical remaking of economics. Harvard: Harvard Business school Press.
6. Bowen, H. R. (1953). Social Responsibilities of the businessman. New York: Harper & Row.
7. Callon, M. (1998a). The law of the Markets. Oxford Blackwell.
8. Callon, M. (1998b). The Embeddedness of economic markets in economics In M. Callon (Ed.), The Law of the Markets (pp. 1-57). Oxford: Blackwell.
9. Campbell, J. Y., A. W. Lo, A. C. MacKinlay. (1997). The Econometrics of Financial Markets. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
10. Carroll, A. B. (1979). A Three-Dimensional Conceptual Model of Corporate Performance, The Academy of Management Review, 4 (4.), 497-505.
11. Coase, R. H. (1937). The nature of the Firm. Economica, 4, 386-405.
12. Davis, K. (1973). The Case for and against Business Assumption of Social Responsibilities. The academy of Management Journal, 16 (2): 312-322.
13. Evans, P. (1979). Dependent Development: the alliance of multinational, state, and local capital in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
14. Evans, P. (1995). Embedded Autonomy: states & industrial transformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
15. Evans, P. (2004). Development as institutional change: The pitfalls of monocropping and the potentials of deliberation. Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID), 38(4), 3-131.
16. Fourcade, M., Kieran Healy. (2007). Moral Views of Market Society. Annual Review of Sociology, 33, 285-311.
17. Friedman, M. (1962). Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
18. Friedman, M. (1970). The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits, The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1-5.
19. Friedman, M.: 2005, Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business. A Reason Debate, Featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods' John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor's T. J. Rodgers, October, 1-10.
20. Garriga, E. and D. Melé (2004). Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory, Journal of Business Ethics, 53, 51-71.
21. Granovetter, M. (1985). Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness, The American Journal of Sociology, 91(3), 481-510.
22. Granovetter, M. (1992). Problems of Explanation in Economic Sociology. In: N. Nohria and R. C. Eccles (eds), Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form and Action (pp. 25-49). Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
23. Grossman, S., Hart, O. (1986). The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: a theory of vertical integration. Journal of Political Economy, 94, 691-719.
24. Hajer, M. (1995). The Politics of Environmental Discourse: ecological modernization and the policy process. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
25. Hayek, F. (1960). The Constitution of Liberty. New York: John Wiley.
26. Healy, S. (2005). Toward a vocabulary for speaking of the engagement of things into discourse. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 7(3), 239-256.
27. Hirschman, A. O. (1977). The Passions and the Interests. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
28. Hodgson, G. M. (1993). Economics and Evolution: bringing life back Into economics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
29. Jensen, M., W Meckling. (1976). Theory of the Firm: managerial behavior, agency costs, and capital structure. Journal of Financial Economics, 3, 305-360.
30. Jones, T. M. (1980). Corporate Social Responsibility Revisited, Redefined. California Management Review, 22(3), 59.
31. Ketola, T. (2008). A Holistic Corporate Responsibility Model: Integrating Values, Discourses and Actions. Journal of Business Ethics, 80, 419-435.
32. Kirman, A. (1999). The Future of Economic Theory. In A. Kirman, Louis-André Gérard-Varet (Ed.), Economics beyond the Millennium (pp. 8-23). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
33. Koza, M. P., Jean-Claude Thoenig. (2003). Rethinking the Firm: organizational approaches. Organization Studies, 24(8), 1219-1229.
34. Landes, D. (1998). The Wealth and Poverty of the Nations. Brettenham: Little, Brown & Company.
35. Lane, R. E. (1991). The Market Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
36. MacKenzie, D., Fabian Muniesa, Lucia Siu. (2007). Do Economists Make Markets?: On the performativity of economics: Cambridge University Press.
37. Mahbubani, K. (2008). De eeuw van Azië: een onafwendbare mondiale machstverschuiving. Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam.
38. Marx, K.: 1872, Het Kapitaal: een kritische beschouwing over de economie (I. Lipschits, Trans. 5e ed.) (De Haan, Bussum).
39. McCloskey, D. (2006). The Bourgeois Virtues: ethics in an age of commerce. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
40. Mintzberg, H. (1983). Power in and around Organisations. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
41. Mintzberg, H. (1994). Strategievorming. Tien scholen. Schiedam: Scriptum Books.
42. Nadeau, R.: 2008, 'The Economist Has No Clothes', Scientific American, April 2008.
43. North, D. C. (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
44. North, D. C. (1994). Economic Performance Through Time. The American Economic Review, 84, 359-368.
45. Olson, M. (2000). Big Bills Left on the Sideway: Why Some Nations are Rich and Others Poor. In: M. Olson and S. Kähkönen (eds.), A Not So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies (pp. 37-60). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
46. Polanyi, K. (1957). The Great Transformation: the political and economic origins of our time. Boston: Beacon Press.
47. Porter, M. E. (1980). Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (Free Press, New York).
48. Porter, M. E. and C. van der Linde (1995). Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9 (4), 97-118.
49. Schumpeter, J. A. (1950). Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. New York: Haper & Brothers Publishers.
50. Schumpeter, J. A. (1961). The Theory of Economic Development. New York: Oxfrod University Press.
51. Schwartz, B. (2005). The Paradox of Choice. New York: Harper Perennial.
52. Simmel, G. (2004). The Philosophy of Money. London: Routledge.
53. Smith, A. (1757). The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
54. Smith, A. (1776). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In: E. Cannan (ed.). Compilation of AnInquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd.
55. Sornette, D. (2003). Why Stockmarkets Crash: critical events in financial markets. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
56. Stigler, J. and G. S. Becker (1977). De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum. The American Economic Review, 67 (2), 76-90.
57. Taleb, N. N. (2007). The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable. London: Random House.
58. Thrift, N. (2005). Knowing Capitalism. London: Sage.
59. van Marrewijk, M. (2003). Concepts and Definitions of CSR and Corporate Sustainability: Between Agency and Communion. Journal of Business Ethics, 44 (2): 95-105.
60. van Tulder, R. and A. van der Zwart: 2003, Reputaties op het spel. Maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen in een onderhandelingssamenleving (Uitgeverij Het Spectrum B. V., Utrecht), pp. 18-138.
61. Veblen, T. (1974). De theorie vande nietsdoende klasse. Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers.
62. Votaw, D.: 1972, 'Genius Becomes Rare: A comment on the Doctrine of Social responsibility', California Management Review (pre-1986), 15(winter 1973), 25-31.
63. Wiggins, R. R., TW Ruefli. (2002). Sustained Competitive Advantage. Organization Science, 13(1), 81-105.
64. Wiggins, R. R., TW Ruefli. (2005). Schumpeter's Ghost: Is Hypercompetition Making the Best of Times Shorter? Strategic Management Journal, 26, 887-911.
65. Williamson, O. E. (1975). Markets and Hierarchies: analysis and antitrust implications. New York Free Press.
66. Zelizer, V. (2007). Pasts and Futures of Economic Sociology. American Behavioral Scientist, 50(8), 1056-1069.