Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/313365 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Business Ethics [ISSN:] 1573-0697 [Volume:] 184 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Springer Netherlands [Place:] Dordrecht [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 333-351
Publisher: 
Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
Abstract: 
Research studying the effects of non-financial goals on stakeholder relationships remains inconclusive, with scholars disagreeing on which goals increase or decrease a firm’s proactive stakeholder engagement (PSE). Instead of examining which goals act as forces for good or evil, we shift the focus of recent discussions by emphasizing the mechanisms that can explain the positive and negative stakeholder outcomes of non-financial goals under the umbrella of one theoretical lens. We do so by introducing an ethics of care perspective. Specifically, we first show that four of the five most distinctive non-financial goals of family owners jointly stipulate care-based morality, which likely enhances PSE. However, we subsequently argue that one goal, namely, the wish to exert power and influence, interacts with other goals and related care-based morality to lower PSE. Finally, we show how female family directors temper these interactions. Our insights into the additive and interactive effects of non-financial goals on PSE contribute to corporate social responsibility research, to the organizational goal literature, to family business studies and to work drawing on care ethics in management studies.
Subjects: 
Ethics of care
Family firms
Non-financial goals
Proactive stakeholder engagement
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Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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