dc.contributor.author | Winkler, Ingo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-10-05T07:52:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-10-05T07:52:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Winkler, I.(2009). Stakeholder Salience in Corporate Codes of Ethics - Using Legitimacy, Power, and Urgency to Explain Stakeholder Relevance in Ethical Codes of German Blue Chip Companies. EJBO - Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies, Vol. 14 (1). Retrieved from http://ejbo.jyu.fi | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/25434 | |
dc.description.abstract | What stakeholder groups are addressed
in the German blue chips’
corporate codes of ethics and
why do companies concentrate
on particular stakeholders? These
questions were subject to a study on
stakeholder salience in the corporate
codes of ethics of the German DAX
30-companies. The extent and the
mode stakeholders are addressed in
the ethical codes of the companies
listed in the German blue chip stock
market index were analysed. The
empirical results were interpreted
in the light of stakeholder salience
theory. Stakeholders’ legitimacy,
power, and urgency were evaluated
against the background of the
German business context and the
sphere of research on applied business
ethics in Germany. The results
indicate firstly that companies
Using Legitimacy, Power, and Urgency to Explain Stakeholder
Relevance in Ethical Codes of German Blue Chip Companies
develop a differentiated perception
of their environment in terms of
their ethical responsibility whereas
they clearly distinguish between
primary and secondary stakeholders.
Secondly, this perception reflects
the German business context and,
hence, highlights the companies’
embeddedness in a specific environment.
Thirdly, stakeholder attributes
offered by the stakeholder salience
theory are proved to be instrumental
for a systematic evaluation of
stakeholder relevance. However, the
findings point to a different relationship
between these attributes than it
is proposed by the theory. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON) | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | EJBO - Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies | |
dc.relation.uri | http://ejbo.jyu.fi | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.subject.other | code of ethics | en |
dc.subject.other | Germany | en |
dc.subject.other | stakeholder salience | en |
dc.subject.other | legitimacy | en |
dc.subject.other | power | en |
dc.subject.other | urgency | en |
dc.title | Stakeholder Salience in Corporate Codes of Ethics - Using Legitimacy, Power, and Urgency to Explain Stakeholder Relevance in Ethical Codes of German Blue Chip Companies | |
dc.type | journal article | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201010052945 | |
dc.type.coar | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 | |
dc.relation.issn | 1239-2685 | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | 1 | |
dc.relation.volume | 14 | |
dc.rights.copyright | © Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON) | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | |
dc.type.publication | article | |
dc.rights.url | https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ | |