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Corporate Citizenship

Toward an Extended Theoretical Conceptualization

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ID23318330
AuthorsD Matten (0000-0001-8694-4798, University of London), A Crane (0000-0002-3139-0844, University of Nottingham)
Year2005
Volume30
Issue1
Pages166-179
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAcademy of Management Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-7425 • E-ISSN: 1930-3807
PublisherAcademy of Management (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5465/amr.2005.15281448
OpenAlexW2122155259
LanguageEN
Citations received205
References cited42

We critically examine the content of contemporary understandings of corporate citizenship and locate them within the extant body of research dealing with business-society relations. Our main purpose is to realize a theoretically informed definition of corporate citizenship that is descriptively robust and conceptually distinct from existing concepts in the literature. Specifically, our extended perspective exposes the element of “citizenship” and conceptualizes corporate citizenship as the administration of a bundle of individual citizenship rights—social, civil, and political—conventionally granted and protected by governments.

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