Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Corporate Responsibility for Innovation — A Citizenship Framework

  • Chapter
Business Ethics of Innovation

Part of the book series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment ((ETHICSSCI,volume ^31))

Abstract

This paper applies the metaphor of citizenship to business-society relations because citizenship is concerned with power and responsibility as two major themes in the context of ethical implications of corporate innovation. After exploring and explaining these themes, we investigate the application of the citizenship metaphor to corporations in three ways: corporations as citizens; corporations deploying government-like powers in relation to human citizens; and corporations as arenas for stakeholders to act in citizenship-like ways. We illustrate how citizenship status, processes and entitlements of corporations themselves, of human members of societies, and stakeholders of corporations are structured. We consider the usefulness of our approach for understanding corporate responsibility in the context of innovation as well as for future research.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 69.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Bibliography

  • Albert M (1991) Capitalisme contre capitalisme. Paris: LeSeuil

    Google Scholar 

  • Attaran A (2004) How do patents and economic policies affect access to essential medicines in developing countries? Health Affairs 23(3):155–166

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barton JH (2004) TRIPS and the global pharmaceutical market. Health Affairs 23(3):146–154

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • BBC (2005a) Safety urged for child web users. www.bbc.co.uk/news, 18 April 2005

    Google Scholar 

  • BBC (2005b) Yahoo ‘helped jail China writer’. www.bbc.co.uk/news, 9 July 2005

    Google Scholar 

  • Bendell J (2000) Civil regulation: A new form of democratic governance for the global economy? In: Terms for endearment: Business, NGOs and sustainable development, Jem Bendell, Ed. Sheffield: Greenleaf

    Google Scholar 

  • Bondy K, Matten D, Moon J (2006) Codes of conduct as a tool for sustainable governance in multinational corporations. In: Benn S, Dunphy D (eds) Corporate governance and sustainability — Challenges for theory and practice. London: Routledge, 165–185

    Google Scholar 

  • Crane A, Matten D, Moon J (2004) Stakeholders as citizens? Rethinking rights, participation, and democracy. Journal of Business Ethics 53(1):107–122

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Crane A, Matten D, Moon J (forthcoming) Corporations and Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Crane A, Matten D (2007) Business ethics. Managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization. 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Crook C (2005) ‘The good company. The Economist 22.I.2005, 9

    Google Scholar 

  • Dahl R (1972) A Prelude to Corporate Reform. Business and Society Review, 17–21

    Google Scholar 

  • di Norcia V (1994) Ethics, technology development, and innovation. Business Ethics Quarterly 4(3):235–252

    Google Scholar 

  • Donaldson T, Preston LE (1995) The stakeholder theory of the corporation: concepts, evidence, and implications. Academy of Management Review 20(1):65–91

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Elkington J (1999) Cannibals with Forks: Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business. London: Capstone Publishing

    Google Scholar 

  • Freeman RE (1984) Strategic management. A stakeholder approach. Boston: Pitman

    Google Scholar 

  • Friedman M (1970) The Social Responsibility of Business is to make Profits. New York Times Magazine, September 13

    Google Scholar 

  • Galbraith JK (1974) The new industrial state (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin

    Google Scholar 

  • Gallie WE (1956) Essentially Contested Concepts. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 56(2):187–198

    Google Scholar 

  • Harris J (1994) Biotechnology, friend or foe? Ethics and controls. In: Dyson A, Harris J (eds) Ethics and Biotechnology. London: Routledge, 216–229

    Google Scholar 

  • Häyry M (1994) Categorical objections to genetic engineering — A critique. In: Dyson A, Harris J (eds) Ethics and biotechnology. London: Routledge, 202–271

    Google Scholar 

  • Hertz N (2001) The Silent Takeover. London: Heinemann

    Google Scholar 

  • Korten DC (2001) When corporations rule the world, 2nd ed. Bloomfield, CT

    Google Scholar 

  • Langford D (ed) (2000) Internet ethics. New York: St. Martin’s Press

    Google Scholar 

  • LSE, Wellcome Trust (2005) The new landscape of neglected disease drug development (A report from the Pharmaceutical R&D Policy Project). London: London School of Economics/Health and Social Care

    Google Scholar 

  • Manville B, Ober J (2003) Beyond empowerment: building a company of citizens. Harvard Business Review (January), 48–53

    Google Scholar 

  • Marshall TH (1965) Class, Citizenship and Social Development. New York: Anchor Books

    Google Scholar 

  • Matten D, Crane A (2005) Corporate Citizenship: Toward an Extended Theoretical Conceptualisation. Academy of Management Review 30(1) 166–179

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Monbiot G (2000) Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain. London: Pan

    Google Scholar 

  • Moon J (1995) The Firm as Citizen: Corporate Responsibility in Australia. Australian Journal of Political Science 30(1):1–17

    Google Scholar 

  • Moon J (2002) Business Social Responsibility and New Governance. Government and Opposition 37(3):385–408

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moon J (2004) Government as a Driver of CSR’ ICCSR Working Papers No. 20 Nottingham: Nottingham University Business School

    Google Scholar 

  • Moon J, Crane A, Matten D (2005) Can corporations be citizens? Corporate citizenship as a metaphor for business participation in society. Business Ethics Quarterly 15(3):429–453

    Google Scholar 

  • Organ DW (1988) Organizational citizenship behavior: the good soldier syndrome. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books

    Google Scholar 

  • Renn O, Webler T, Wiedemann PM (eds) (1995). Fairness and competence in citizen participation. Dordrecht: Kluwer

    Google Scholar 

  • Taunton-Rigby A (2001) Bioethics: the new frontier. Business and Society Review, 106(2):127–142

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Whitley R (1999) Divergent capitalisms. The social structuring and change of business systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Wolf M (2002) Response to “Confronting the Critics”. New Academy Review 1(1):62–65

    Google Scholar 

  • Zadek S (2001) The civil corporation: the new economy of corporate citizenship. London: Earthscan

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Dirk Matten
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Andy Crane
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Jeremy Moon
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Wissenschaftsrat, Brohler Str. 11, 50968, Köln, Germany

    Gerd Hanekamp

  2. Europäische Akademie GmbH, Wilhelmstr. 56, 53474, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

    Friederike Wütscher

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Matten, D., Crane, A., Moon, J. (2007). Corporate Responsibility for Innovation — A Citizenship Framework. In: Hanekamp, G., Wütscher, F. (eds) Business Ethics of Innovation. Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, vol ^31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72310-3_5

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72310-3_5

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-72309-7

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-72310-3

  • eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation