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Kuch, H. Der Zwang der Konkurrenz und die Macht der Vereinigung: Unternehmensverantwortung und Multi-Stakeholder-Initiativen. Sozialer Fortschritt, 73(3), 195-220. https://doi.org/10.3790/sfo.2024.1432904
Kuch, Hannes "Der Zwang der Konkurrenz und die Macht der Vereinigung: Unternehmensverantwortung und Multi-Stakeholder-Initiativen" Sozialer Fortschritt 73.3, 2024, 195-220. https://doi.org/10.3790/sfo.2024.1432904
Kuch, Hannes (2024): Der Zwang der Konkurrenz und die Macht der Vereinigung: Unternehmensverantwortung und Multi-Stakeholder-Initiativen, in: Sozialer Fortschritt, vol. 73, iss. 3, 195-220, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/sfo.2024.1432904
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Der Zwang der Konkurrenz und die Macht der Vereinigung: Unternehmensverantwortung und Multi-Stakeholder-Initiativen

Kuch, Hannes

Sozialer Fortschritt, Vol. 73 (2024), Iss. 3 : pp. 195–220

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Kuch, PD Dr. Hannes, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

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Abstract

Abstract: Competitive Pressures and the Power of Association: Corporate Responsibility and Multi-Stakeholder-Initiatives

The paper examines multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) as a response to a fundamental problem: this is the problem of competitive pressures to which firms in capitalist market economies are fundamentally subjected, pressures that have only intensified in the era of globalization. For business ethics, the importance of MSIs lies primarily in the fact that they provide a key institutional device to counteract and reshape the anonymous pressures of competition. In the literature, this particular strength of MSIs is either neglected or there is a lack of clarity as to how exactly MSIs transform competitive pressures. The paper distinguishes two fundamental types of MSIs: the ethical-consumerism approach and the market-power approach. Both types of MSIs show significant social potentials for penetrating and liquefying competitive pressures. But MSIs in their existing form are far from living up to their potential. Four widely diagnosed shortcomings of MSIs are reconstructed, namely window-dressing, lack of participation, power imbalances and fragmentation. It is shown to what extent and in which specific way the ethical-consumerism approach and the market-power approach are affected by these shortcomings. Finally, several distinct pathways towards a social transformation of MSIs are opened up.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Hannes Kuch: Der Zwang der Konkurrenz und die Macht der Vereinigung: Unternehmensverantwortung und Multi-Stakeholder-Initiativen 195
Zusammenfassung 195
Abstract: Competitive Pressures and the Power of Association: Corporate Responsibility and Multi-Stakeholder-Initiatives 195
Einleitung 196
1. Was heißt ‚Konkurrenzzwang‘? 198
2. Die Macht der Vereinigung und Potentiale von MSIs 200
3. Konsumethische und marktmachtbasierte MSIs 202
4. Schwächen von MSIs 206
(1) Schönfärberei 207
(2) Beteiligungsmangel 209
(3) Machtasymmetrien 211
(4) Fragmentierung 213
5. Zusammenfassung und Ausblick auf Transformationspotentiale 215
Literatur 218

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