Stakeholder Deliberation as a Legitimation Principle
of Companies’ Engagement in the Public Sphere
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Wydział Nauk Politycznych
i Studiów Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Publication date: 2023-12-15
Studia Politologiczne 2023;70
KEYWORDS
corporate social responsibilitystakeholder theorypublic deliberationcorporatelegitimacycorporate political activity
ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper is to propose a supplement to the concept of stakeholder
deliberation as a legitimation principle of companies’ engagement in the public sphere.
The article proposes two solutions for deficiencies of deliberation construct: the concept
of hypernorms, which refers to the Donaldson & Dunfee’ integrative social contracts
theory, and the rule of differentiation of entitlements as far as stakeholder deliberation
is concerned. The research result is the answer to the question about an applicability of
the deliberation concept proposed by J. Habermas, which is commonly used by the CSR
researchers.
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