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Handbook of Business Legitimacy

Responsibility, Ethics and Society

  • Living reference work
  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

    1. Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

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  • Provides a convenient reference work on the problem of legitimacy in relation to business and management ethics, following both historical and systematic modes of inquiry
  • Identifies major authors and schools and their contributions to scholarship on business legitimacy
  • Examines business legitimacy responses to the main challenges businesses and organizations face in the 21st century
  • Provides the only reference work of its kind in either its breadth or depth

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Table of contents (92 entries)

  1. Accounting Systems and Integration of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Corporate Operations

    • Magnus Frostenson

  2. Adam Smith and Business Legitimacy

    • Michael S. Aßländer

  3. Aesthetics of the Anthropocene: And How They Can Challenge Business Ethics

    • Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen

  4. Anthropological Underpinnings of Business Ethics and Work Ethics in Relation to Business Legitimacy

    • Friedrich Lohmann

  5. Business Legitimacy and Adoption of Human Resource Information Systems in Danish SMEs

    • A. Scupola, Z. Pullich

  6. Business Legitimacy and Communication Ethics: Discussing Greenwashing and Credibility Beyond Habermasian Idealism

    • Mario D. Schultz, Peter Seele

  7. Business Legitimacy and the Variety of Normative Contexts

    • Magnus Frostenson

  8. Business Legitimacy from a Catholic Perspective: Thomas Aquinas, Papal Encyclicals and Human Rights

    • Giorgio Baruchello

  9. Business Legitimacy in Asia: Focus on China

    • Alicia Hennig

  10. Business Legitimacy in the Social Market Economy: Individual and Corporate Economic Citizenship

    • Alexander Lorch, Christoph Schank

  11. Business Legitimacy, Agricultural Biodiversity, and Environmental Ethics: Insights from Sustainable Bakeries

    • Riccardo Torelli, Federica Balluchi

  12. Business Legitimacy, Modernity, and Organizational Systems: Corporate Spirit, Esprit De Corps and Corpus Spiritus Throughout History

    • Gorm Harste

  13. Business, Human Rights, and Reflexive Regulation: Multi-stakeholder Development of Standards for Responsible Business Conduct

    • Karin Buhmann

  14. Capitalism, Religion, Business Legitimacy, and the Ethical Economy

    • Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

  15. Change, Institutional Theory, and Business Legitimacy

    • John Damm Scheuer

  16. Configurations of High Corporate Environmental Responsibility with Regard to Business Legitimacy: A Cross-National Approach

    • Marjo Siltaoja, Carolyn P. Egri, Olivier Furrer, Mika Haapanen, Ruth Alas, Knud Sinding

  17. Corporate Governance and Business Legitimacy

    • Till Talaulicar

  18. Corporate Governance and Corporate Legitimacy: The Role of Boards

    • Eythor Ivar Jonsson

  19. Corporate Governance, Social Network Analysis, and Business Legitimacy

    • Slobodan Kacanski

  20. Corporate Legitimacy and Institutionalization: From Corporate Innocence to Responsibility for Complex Impacts

    • Inger Jensen
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About this book

This Handbook forms part of  wider research in responsibility, ethics and legitimacy of corporations. Through an interdisciplinary perspective with comparative integration of sociological, politological, philosophical, theological, ethical, economic, legal, linguistic and communication theoretical approaches this Handbook will clarify how the interrelation between company and environment is mediated by legitimating notions in public spaces and public relations; how and why these notions have changed radically; how these transformations strike on the epistemological as well as practical dimension of business companies; and the problems involved in these transformations at the macro-, meso- and micro levels.

The Handbook begins with a historical introduction and chronology of the development of business legitimacy, providing a comprehensive assessment of the concept’s evolution and identifying the most influential authors and their works. These may be divided intoauthors who follow (1) a philosophical, sociological, or conceptual tradition in management and leadership in their treatment of legitimacy and those who belong to the research tradition of (2) application of the concept in management science and leadership as well as in organizational theory and business practice in the interdisciplinary perspective of the different approaches.

The Handbook continues with systematic approaches and major themes developed in the concept of business legitimacy. Contributions here may be conceptual, empirical/applied or case studies. The different parts of the volume deal with the different topics to which business legitimacy has been applied, with how legitimacy is relevant in the various operational areas of the firm, and with the legitimacy theory’s responses to some of the most important issues that businesses and organizations currently face.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

About the editor

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, ph.d and dr. scient. adm. is Senior Associate Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. Rendtorff has a background in research in ethics, business ethics, bioethics, political theory and philosophy of law. He has also been doing research in phenomenology and hermeneutics, continental French and German philosophy. Since 1994 Rendtorff has been visiting professor at Bentley College, Boston, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University and Stanford University (2001), Bard College, New York 2011, the University of Paris-Ouest-La defense (2012), and Copenhagen Business School (from 2013). Rendtorff has written many books and articles, i.e. Responsibility, ethics and legitimacy of corporations, Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen 2009

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