Der Stakeholder Approach gehört zu den grundlegenden Konzeptionen, an denen keine Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik vorbeikommt. Schon der Ausdruck Stakeholder signalisiert einen Kontrasst zu dem ebenfalls grundlegend wichtigen Begriff des Shareholders. Ursprünglich als Erweiterung des...

Der vorliegende Diskussionsbeitrag analysiert die Motivlage von Unternehmern sozial‐ökologischer Pionierunternehmen. Dabei werden die folgenden forschungsleitendenFragestellungen untersucht: 1. Welche strategischen und ethischen Motive veranlassenUnternehmer sich dem Thema Nachhaltigkeit zu...

Accounting is frequently described and recognized as the language of business because theexternal financial reporting function is extensively used as a principal means of communicatingresults of corporate economic activity to interested external parties. However, deficiencies withrespect to the...

There are people who are motivated by the non-selfish, non-strategic, and non-consequentialist“protected value” of truthfulness. We conduct an experiment directly assessing thisphenomenon. We find that people differ substantially in their truthfulness, with a largeminority powerfully...

This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combinesmultiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and theirbehavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-thejobethical...

It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is oneaspect or one definition of poverty. Current concerns with the extent anddistribution of social capital as both a measure of a good society and as meansto upward mobility also emphasise the importance of social...

We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linkedtest score records to document the evolution of attainment through school fordifferent ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of striking findings. First,we show that, controlling for personal characteristics, all...

We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 inorder to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration.We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns ofsegregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic...

Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multigroup school segregationindices: the Atkinson Indices for the class of school districts with a given fixed numberof ethnic groups and the Mutual Information Index for the class of all districts.Properties of other school segregation indices...