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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Reconsidering the Legitimacy and Efficiency of Corporate Strategies: A Case for Organizational Democracy
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Anselm Schneider
  • Andreas Scherer
Editors
  • Thomas Beschroner
  • Arnaud Sales
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle Corporate Social Responsibility – Institutional and Organizational Perspectives
ISBN 978-3-030-15405-9
ISSN 2211-2707
Place of Publication Cham
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Page Range 77 - 96
Date 2019
Abstract Text In this article, we argue that in the contemporary globalized economy business firms face two interrelated challenges that result from the growing complexity and dynamics of corporate environments increasing threats to corporate legitimacy and growing efficiency problems. As a result, corporate legitimacy and efficiency are potentially weakened. We specifically explore the communicative requirements for tackling both the problems of organizational legitimacy and of efficiency. On this basis, we suggest to make business firms subject to democratic processes based on stakeholder participation and open communication. The partial democratization of business firms can serve as a corrective to the dominant economic logic underlying corporate structures and processes by simultaneously addressing economic and moral considerations and by enhancing both efficiency and legitimacy.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1007/978-3-030-15407-3_4
Other Identification Number merlin-id:14167
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