MACMILLAN Unknown Values and Stakeholders: The Pro-Business Outcome and the Role of Competition

This second edition demonstrates that there are more conditions and actors prevalent in the economy than are considered today, and builds a balanced view of responsibility that would not be shunned by corporate executives. The wider economic responsibilities of organizations have been identified for corporations, and responsibility has been focused on business. Unknown Values and Stakeholders argues that all organizations, including public administration, should be accountable for their economic responsibilities. The authors reveal the unknown values and stakeholders of the accountability game and the new inequality in working conditions of the employed while, at the same time, showing a path towards effective economic development. From the Back Cover This second edition demonstrates that there are more conditions and actors prevalent in the economy than are considered today, and builds a balanced view of responsibility that would not be shunned by corporate executives. The wider economic responsibilities of organizations have been identified for corporations, and responsibility has been focused on business. Unknown Values and Stakeholders argues that all organizations, including public administration, should be accountable for their economic responsibilities. The authors reveal the unknown values and stakeholders of the accountability game and the new inequality in working conditions of the employed while, at the same time, showing a path towards effective economic development. About the Author Paolo D’Anselmi is a lecturer of CSR at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, and has been a practitioner of management consultancy and policy analysis since 1981. He is the author of Values and Stakeholders in an Era of Social Responsibility 1 st edition, and coeditor of SMEs as the Unknown Stakeholder and Public Management as Corporate Social Responsibility: the Economic bottom line of Government. Athanasios Chymis is a Senior Researcher at KEPE, Centre of Planning and Economic Research, Athens, Greece. He is also the coeditor of Public Management as Corporate Social Responsibility: the Economic bottom line of Government Massimiliano Di Bitetto is a senior executive at the Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy. He is co-editor of SMEs as the Unknown Stakeholder and Public Management as Corporate Social Responsibility: the Economic bottom line of Government