The Relationship between Stakeholder Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility: Differences, Similarities, and Implications for Social Issues in Management

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Standard

The Relationship between Stakeholder Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility: Differences, Similarities, and Implications for Social Issues in Management. / Dmytriyev, Sergiy D.; Freeman, R. Edward; Hörisch, Jacob.
In: Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 58, No. 6, 09.2021, p. 1441-1470.

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Harvard

APA

Vancouver

Bibtex

@article{53bf39da3a4b45498af6950f5fd26699,
title = "The Relationship between Stakeholder Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility: Differences, Similarities, and Implications for Social Issues in Management",
abstract = "Although stakeholder theory and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have evolved into major theoretical frameworks for exploring social issues in management, there is a limited and often misleading understanding of the relationship between them that inhibits the management field from adopting a social orientation to a full extent. Our aim is to remove unnecessary barriers that preclude collaboration between scholars in the stakeholder theory and CSR camps; empower organizational scholars and practitioners with a more nuanced language for dealing with social issues in management; and enable the creation of a coherent and integrative theoretical foundation in the area of social issues in management that has previously been at a disadvantage to other areas in management. In our conceptual analysis, we argue that stakeholder theory and CSR provide distinct but complementary theoretical frameworks with some overlap. The actual decision to choose a particular framework depends on the problem one wants to solve and the settings of that problem.",
keywords = "corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility (CSR), social issues in management, stakeholder theory, Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics",
author = "Dmytriyev, {Sergiy D.} and Freeman, {R. Edward} and Jacob H{\"o}risch",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank the general editor Jonathan Doh and the three anonymous reviewers for their very valuable comments and suggestions. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1111/joms.12684",
language = "English",
volume = "58",
pages = "1441--1470",
journal = "Journal of Management Studies",
issn = "0022-2380",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.",
number = "6",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Relationship between Stakeholder Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility: Differences, Similarities, and Implications for Social Issues in Management

AU - Dmytriyev, Sergiy D.

AU - Freeman, R. Edward

AU - Hörisch, Jacob

N1 - Funding Information: The authors thank the general editor Jonathan Doh and the three anonymous reviewers for their very valuable comments and suggestions. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

PY - 2021/9

Y1 - 2021/9

N2 - Although stakeholder theory and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have evolved into major theoretical frameworks for exploring social issues in management, there is a limited and often misleading understanding of the relationship between them that inhibits the management field from adopting a social orientation to a full extent. Our aim is to remove unnecessary barriers that preclude collaboration between scholars in the stakeholder theory and CSR camps; empower organizational scholars and practitioners with a more nuanced language for dealing with social issues in management; and enable the creation of a coherent and integrative theoretical foundation in the area of social issues in management that has previously been at a disadvantage to other areas in management. In our conceptual analysis, we argue that stakeholder theory and CSR provide distinct but complementary theoretical frameworks with some overlap. The actual decision to choose a particular framework depends on the problem one wants to solve and the settings of that problem.

AB - Although stakeholder theory and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have evolved into major theoretical frameworks for exploring social issues in management, there is a limited and often misleading understanding of the relationship between them that inhibits the management field from adopting a social orientation to a full extent. Our aim is to remove unnecessary barriers that preclude collaboration between scholars in the stakeholder theory and CSR camps; empower organizational scholars and practitioners with a more nuanced language for dealing with social issues in management; and enable the creation of a coherent and integrative theoretical foundation in the area of social issues in management that has previously been at a disadvantage to other areas in management. In our conceptual analysis, we argue that stakeholder theory and CSR provide distinct but complementary theoretical frameworks with some overlap. The actual decision to choose a particular framework depends on the problem one wants to solve and the settings of that problem.

KW - corporate responsibility

KW - corporate social responsibility (CSR)

KW - social issues in management

KW - stakeholder theory

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102207009&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/c46fb1e1-fbfd-3103-bca4-a2a22c61db80/

U2 - 10.1111/joms.12684

DO - 10.1111/joms.12684

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85102207009

VL - 58

SP - 1441

EP - 1470

JO - Journal of Management Studies

JF - Journal of Management Studies

SN - 0022-2380

IS - 6

ER -

DOI