Finance

Corporate social responsibility

Sociology

Business

Stakeholder

Pure mathematics

Mathematics

Knowledge management

Operating system

Engineering

Principal (computer security)

Political science

Order (exchange)

Stakeholder analysis

Stakeholder theory

Process management

Public relations

Computer science

Management science

Field (mathematics)

Academy of Management Review

This article presents conclusions from a 10-year research program, the purpose of which has been to develop a framework and methodology, grounded in the reality of corporate behavior, for analyzing and evaluating corporate social performance. There are three principal sections: (a) a summary of the approaches, models, and methodologies used in conducting more than 70 field studies of corporate social performance from 1983-1993; (b) a discussion of the principal conclusions derived from the data that (1) corporations manage relationships with stakeholder groups rather than with society as a whole, (2) it is important to distinguish between social issues and stakeholder issues, and (3) it is necessary to identify the appropriate level of analysis in order to evaluate CSP; and (c) a discussion of propositions and areas for further research.

A Stakeholder Framework for Analyzing and Evaluating Corporate Social Performance