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201. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
William D. Oberman Corporate Political Strategy and the Resource-Based View of the Firm
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This paper attempts to outline aspects of a theory of corporate political strategy that is nested within the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm. Aspects of the RBV and political strategy literatures are reviewed and assumptions for a resource-based theory of political strategy are offered. Political resources are considered in light of their “VRIN” attributes and their development into rent earning assets.
202. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Ronald M. Roman The Half-Full Glass and Stakeholder Theory: Including Value Creation in Stakeholder Identification and Salience
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Nearly all the articles on stakeholder theory focus on the actual or potential conflicts between stakeholders and on how the parties involved can manage discord in stakeholder-firm relationships. Put another way, stakeholder researchers have pessimistically focused on the “half-empty glass.” In this paper, I suggest this focus on conflict overlooks the importance of collaboration to create value in relationships between stakeholders and firms. In other words, it overlooks the “half-full glass.” I highlight the omission of value- creating stakeholder relationships by examining the attributes of stakeholders as theorized by Mitchell, Agte, and Wood (1997) and further propose that stakeholder salience and identification are currently muddled together and the process of stakeholders gamering the attention of a firm and the process of a firm prioritizing stakeholders and stakeholder claims must be more clearly delineated. By adding and clarifying these concepts in stakeholder identification and salience this paper adds to the understanding of “who or what really counts.”
203. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Ronald K. Mitchell Stakeholders of the World Unite: Assessing Progress on the Path Toward a Stakeholder Theory of the Firm
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Is there a connection between anti-globalization protests and our failure to develop a stakeholder theory of the firm? Or, put another way, what if we were to conceptualize the anti-globalization movement as the efforts of “suffragettes and suffrages” for the emancipation of those stakeholders who are the disenfranchised or unrecognized citizens of the corporation? What kind of theory of the firm would be consonant with such an assertion? And, what analytical path would we follow to uncover the outlines of such a theory? From this analysis, we might bring into focus the next conceptual milestones needed along our road to developing a functional and functioning stakeholder theory of the firm. In this discussion I shall explore these analytical steps.
204. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Stephanie A. Welcomer The Past, Present, and Future in Constructing Issues: Implications for Identity, Inclusion, and Legitimacy
205. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Ruth Schmitt, David H. Saiia, Suzanne Beaulieu Exploring Dynamic Stakeholder Relations: An Application to Three Case Studies
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This paper explores the dynamics between organizations and their stakeholders by examining three separate empirical cases. The question of stakeholder dynamics is an under-represented area in the literature; the data from our cases provide a particularly rich resource through which we try to understand the nature and the evolution of these dynamics and their impacts on the focal organization. Several themes regarding stakeholder dynamics are identified.
206. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
William A. Sodeman, Cheryl Van Deusen, Carolyn Mueller Stadium Naming Rights and Stakeholder Management
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Stadium naming rights have become an integral part of sports, government and commerce over the last twenty years. According to a recent estimate, over US$3 billion were tied up in stadium naming rights agreements (SNRA). In a typical SNRA, an entity that controls a sports stadium agrees to sell the naming rights for that facility to a corporation. The corporation pledges stock, cash payments, or a combination of both, and primarily gains the opportunity to name the facility. The cotporation may also receive additional benefits, including luxury boxes, marketing deals, product placement and other perks. We propose that SNRA may be a leading indicator of poor corporate economic and social performance. Although the intentions of SNRAs may be laudable, the results appear to be that this may be misuse of funds that results in poor balance for the rights of the majority of stakeholders.
207. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Harry J. Van Buren III Boundary Spanning as Value- and Legitimacy-Seeking Activity
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In this paper, a framework for boundary spanning as a value- and legitimacy-seeking organizational activity is developed. Boundary spanning activity serves two functions vis-à-vis value- and legitimacy-seeking: gathering information from the external environment (and especially from stakeholder groups that provide critical resources) about norms and values and then representing the organization to external constituencies as it attempts to demonstrate compliance with such norms and values.
208. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Marie-France Turcotte, Slavka Antonova Learning as Constitutive Dynamics of the Multistakeholder Collaborative Process: Developing an Emission Reduction Trading System in Ontario - The PERT Experience
209. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Barbara Altman, William P. Smith, Lawrence J. Lad, Paul Miesing, Cheryl Van Deusen Teaching Business and Society Online: Pointers and Perspectives
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Universities nationwide are expanding their distance education course offerings. Business schools are following this same trend. Many forces, including technological, administrative and fiscal, will likely sustain a continued interest in distance education offerings. This workshop examined issues related to teaching Business and Society topics in an online format. All participants have designed and taught online courses. Teaching online is riddled with challenges, tradeoffs and a technology learning curve.
210. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Gurneeta Vasudeva Strategic Alliance Approach to Stakeholder Management
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This paper argues that stakeholder alliances provide an important mechanism for strategic interaction for firm’s that are entrenched in the globalization process. Consequently the strategic motivations of multinational firms operating in the global environment provide the basis to understand the rationale and structure for stakeholder alliances and to delineate these from characteristics of inter-firm alliances.
211. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Judith C. Clair, Sandra Waddock, Lawrence J. Lad Teaching Management Mindfully When Crisis Strikes
212. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Robbin Derry Using Tobacco Industry Documents to Conduct an Industry Analysis
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Over 40 million pages of tobacco industry internal company documents are now available online for use by researchers. These previously inaccessible documents contain vast amounts of information valuable for the study of decisions and actions of the tobacco industry companies over the past four decades. This workshop presentation is designed to encourage IABS scholars to explore and make use of these document collections to study the tobacco industry more carefully. Several sources of grants are available to support in depth document research.
213. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Mary-Ellen Boyle The Business School in the Community: Theorizing Current Practices, Imagining the Future
214. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Mary J. Mallot Visual Language and Communication in Teaching
215. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Author Index
216. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
IABS 2002 Program (by Session Order and Category)
217. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Timothy W. Edlund, Richard H. Franke Business and Society: New Developments in Journal Quality
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Socially responsible, ethical, and professional business practices are critical for effective management and good business performance. In the developing field of Business & Society, scholars need to identify appropriate journals; which was the objective of three surveys starting in 1991. With this field's growing importance, ratings rose for four journals devoted to it--Business and Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, the Journal of Business Ethics, and Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy The first journal now nearly ties the Academy of Management Review as the highest quality venue for B&S publication. Four other general management journals remain as appropriate venues, but since 1991 all but one dropped in total rating. The ratings rise of its professional journals relative to general ones suggests Business and Society is becoming a distinctive field of business.
218. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
William P. Smith, Lori Verstegen Ryan IABS Book Salon
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This session is based on the premise that literature represents a potentially valuable means of illustrating important concepts within the Business and Society discipline. Two cofacilitators led a discussion of two novels: Cabal (Michael Dibdin) and Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden). The books were selected because of their treatment of important themes (organizational and personal ethics, heroic virtues and the role of cultural factors). Discussion was also devoted to how literature can be used as a teaching resource.
219. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
Patsy Lewellyn IABS - Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands — 2003 Proceedings Program Chair's Comment
220. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
Vanessa Hill, Sheryl Shivers-Blackwell My Way or the Highway: Where is the Democracy in Leadership Theories and Why Should We Care?