文档介绍：The pyramid of corporate social responsibility
In the following article, the well-known business ethicist Archie Carroll takes a different approach to business ethics than Milton Friedman. Carroll explores the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR). According to CSR, companies and their managers have responsibilities to groups other than shareholders. These groups include employees, customers, suppliers, the environment, munities, and the public at large. One definition of "stakeholders" is the following:
In a narrow sense, stakeholders are those identifiable groups or individuals on which anization depends for its survival, sometimes referred to as primary stakeholders — stockholders, employees, customers, suppliers, and key government agencies. On a broader level, however, a stakeholder is any identifiable group who can affect or is affected anizational performance in terms of its products, policies, and work processes. In this sense, public interest groups, protest groups, munities, government agencies, trade associations, competitors, unions, and the press are anizational
This raises an important question about how managers are supposed to balance the interests of stakeholders against those of stockholders, as well as a question about balancing the interests peting stakeholders. In this reading, Carroll is concerned particularly with the first que