THE DECONSTRUCTION ON STAKEHOLDER MODEL OF THE CORPORATION

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  • ステイクホルダーモデルの脱構築
  • ステイクホルダーモデル ノ ダツコウチク

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In this paper, we try to deconstruct on the existing stakeholder model of the modern corporation. The stakeholder model has been a fundamental framework in business and society. Based on this model, many of stakeholder theorists have developed a management theory and a theory of the firm. The stakeholder model is used to attain two separate aims. On one hand, it is applied in the field of stakeholder management aiming at effective management, where focus is placed on the differentiation of each stakeholder. On the other hand, it is also applied as theory of the firm aiming at verification of stakeholder legitimacy, where emphasis is placed on the integration of each stakeholder. Thus, the logic of the stakeholder model is different by application. This model is so far formed on the assumption that the environment of corporations is composed of nothing but stakeholders, where the relationship between the corporation and stakeholders is consequently regarded as a relationship between the corporation and society. This duality of the model's application can be attributed to the treatment of stakeholders in the model. In the model, the stakeholder group is classified in terms of the influence on businesses of the stake, where the stakeholders are treated solely based on functionalism from the viewpoint of the corporation. The existing stakeholder model might bring about a distortional perspective of the relationship between the corporation and society, or of the roles of business in society. We criticize these problems as a pitfall of the existing stakeholder model. Hence, an alternative model which transforms the existing stakeholder model by placing the two constituents of the stakeholder concept on separate dimensions is presented. To reveal the logic of the transformation is our primary task in this paper.

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