The Shareholders vs. Stakeholders Debate

By Jeff Smith. 2003

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Citations in the corpus

• Corporate Social Responsibility, Institutional Environments, and Tax Avoidance: Evidence from a Subnational Comparison in China (2017, background): “However, the stockholder and stakeholder views are not mutually exclusive (Smith, 2003), as some firms may be oriented toward both or possibly neither.”
• Shareholder Primacy, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Role of Business Schools (2014, unknown): “Accordingly, the legitimacy of the SPN is at the core of what has been called the ‘‘basic debate’’ in business ethics: whether corporations should be managed for the primary benefit of shareholders or for a wider constituency of stakeholders (Agle and Mitchell 2008; Smith 2003).”