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This work centers on “community stakeholders” and explains the sources and limits of organizational obligations to communities whilst describing a typology of potential relationships that organizations may have with communities. The goal of the paper is to discuss firm-community relationships as one potential lever in beginning a more complicated endeavor of reconciling and distinguishing corporate citizenship and stakeholder theory. The authors also describe challenges involved with the unreflective use of stakeholder terminology in discussions of corporate citizenship.
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‘The rule of reciprocity, that one gives of one’s own accord, with the expectation that a suitable return will follow, was a powerful regulator of social behaviour at every stage of Greece’s history. The Homeric epics provide our earliest observation of its operation’ (Donlan 1998, p. 51).
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Phillips, R.A., Freeman, R.E. (2023). Corporate Citizenship and Community Stakeholders. In: Dmytriyev, S.D., Freeman, R.E. (eds) R. Edward Freeman’s Selected Works on Stakeholder Theory and Business Ethics. Issues in Business Ethics(), vol 53. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04564-6_13
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