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Recognition is a basic precondition of participation. This article applies the dimension of recognition to business ethics. A case is made for normative stakeholder management as a voluntary commitment at the level of corporate leadership; this also meets management’s strategic demands. A vitality criterion is offered as a heuristic instrument, suggesting that any operation should be avoided which would violate the legitimate interests of stakeholders. For this reason, the recognition of mutually-conditioned stakeholder claims is understood as the central management idea.
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Brink, A., Eurich, J. Recognition Based upon the Vitality Criterion: A Key to Sustainable Economic Success. J Bus Ethics 67, 155–164 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9020-x
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