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Matten, D., Crane, A. and Chapple, W. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1834-8075,
2003.
Behind the mask: revealing the true face of corporate citizenship.
Journal of Business Ethics, 45 (1/2), pp. 109-120.
ISSN 0167-4544
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Abstract
This paper traces the development of corporate citizenship as a way of framing business and society relations, and critically examines the content of contemporary understandings of the term. These conventional views of corporate citizenship are argued to contribute little or nothing to existing notions of corporate social responsibility and corporate philanthropy. The paper then proposes a new direction, which particularly exposes the element of "citizenship". Being a political concept, citizenship can only be reasonably understood from that theoretical angle. This suggests that citizenship consists of a bundle of rights conventionally granted and protected by governments of states. However, the more that governmental power and sovereignty have come under threat, the more that relevant political functions have gradually shifted towards the corporate sphere — and it is at this point where "corporate" involvement into "citizenship" becomes an issue. Consequently, "corporate citizens" are substantially more than fellow members of the same community who cosily rub shoulders with other fellow citizens while bravely respecting those other citizens' rights and living up to their own responsibility as corporations — as the conventional rhetoric wants us to believe. Behind this relatively innocuous mask then, the true face of corporate citizenship suggests that the corporate role in contemporary citizenship is far more profound, and ultimately in need of urgent reappraisal.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of Business Ethics | ||||||
| Creators: | Matten, D., Crane, A. and Chapple, W. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
| Date: | 2003 | ||||||
| Volume: | 45 | ||||||
| Number: | 1/2 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0167-4544 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham Business School | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 30 Nov 2018 12:26 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2021 16:05 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/35195 |
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