SSOAR Logo
    • Deutsch
    • English
  • English 
    • Deutsch
    • English
  • Login
SSOAR ▼
  • Home
  • About SSOAR
  • Guidelines
  • Publishing in SSOAR
  • Cooperating with SSOAR
    • Cooperation models
    • Delivery routes and formats
    • Projects
  • Cooperation partners
    • Information about cooperation partners
  • Information
    • Possibilities of taking the Green Road
    • Grant of Licences
    • Download additional information
  • Operational concept
Browse and search Add new document OAI-PMH interface
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Download PDF
Download full text

(153.5Kb)

Citation Suggestion

Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-347097

Exports for your reference manager

Bibtex export
Endnote export

Display Statistics
Share
  • Share via E-Mail E-Mail
  • Share via Facebook Facebook
  • Share via Bluesky Bluesky
  • Share via Reddit reddit
  • Share via Linkedin LinkedIn
  • Share via XING XING

What can the stakeholder theory learn from Enron?

Was kann die Stakeholder-Theorie von Enron lernen?
[journal article]

Norman, Wayne

Abstract

"Die Bedeutung, die Enron für das Thema Corporate Governance einnimmt, ist mit der zu vergleichen, die AIDS für die Erforschung des Immunsystems hatte. Die Reflexion und die spätere Reform der Governance, so wird gezeigt, ist jedoch insbesondere von denjenigen angestoßen worden, die am Erfolg des mo... view more

"Die Bedeutung, die Enron für das Thema Corporate Governance einnimmt, ist mit der zu vergleichen, die AIDS für die Erforschung des Immunsystems hatte. Die Reflexion und die spätere Reform der Governance, so wird gezeigt, ist jedoch insbesondere von denjenigen angestoßen worden, die am Erfolg des modernen Kapitalismus beteiligt waren. Dieser Beitrag zeigt Kritikern des Kapitalismus verschiedene Aufgaben der Corporate Governance auf und macht dabei besonders deutlich, dass überzogene ethische Anforderungen an Unternehmen und das Verständnis einer Gleichbehandlung von Stakeholdern verfehlt sind. Es wird argumentiert, dass Vertreter des Stakeholder-Ansatzes die Governance-Beziehung zwischen Aktionären und Senior-Managern vernachlässigen und dass gerade eine stärkere Fokussierung auf dieses Prinzipal-Agenten-Verhältnis im Interesse aller Stakeholder liegen kann." (Autorenreferat)... view less


"Roughly speaking, Enron has done for reflection on corporate governance what AIDS did for research on the immune system. So far, however, virtually all of this reflection on and subsequent reform of governance has come from those with a stake in the success of modern capitalism. This paper identifi... view more

"Roughly speaking, Enron has done for reflection on corporate governance what AIDS did for research on the immune system. So far, however, virtually all of this reflection on and subsequent reform of governance has come from those with a stake in the success of modern capitalism. This paper identifies a number of governance challenges for critics of capitalism, and in particular for those who urge corporations to voluntarily adopt missions of broader social responsibility and equal treatment for all stakeholder groups. I argue that by generally neglecting the governance relation between shareholders and senior managers, stakeholder theorists have underestimated the way in which shareholder-focused governance can be in the interests of all stakeholder groups." (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
corporate governance; social responsibility; shareholder; corporate citizenship; management; enterprise; ethics; stakeholder approach

Classification
Sociology of Economics
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations

Method
basic research

Document language
English

Publication Year
2004

Page/Pages
p. 326-336

Journal
Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 5 (2004) 3

ISSN
1439-880X

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications


GESIS LogoDFG LogoOpen Access Logo
Home  |  Legal notices  |  Operational concept  |  Privacy policy
© 2007 - 2025 Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR).
Based on DSpace, Copyright (c) 2002-2022, DuraSpace. All rights reserved.
 

 


GESIS LogoDFG LogoOpen Access Logo
Home  |  Legal notices  |  Operational concept  |  Privacy policy
© 2007 - 2025 Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR).
Based on DSpace, Copyright (c) 2002-2022, DuraSpace. All rights reserved.