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Introduction Corporate Citizenship and the allocation of public goods. Prof. Dr. André Habisch Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Center for Corporate Citizenship ICCSR Nottingham Business School. ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’.
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Introduction Corporate Citizenship and the allocation of public goods Prof. Dr. André Habisch Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Center for Corporate Citizenship ICCSR Nottingham Business School
‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ Against Materialism: relevance of values/ norms/ Weltanschauung Normative foundations of Capitalist Society
‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ Point of departure: Vicious cycle of consumptive economy lives from hand to mouth and produces (only) what is consumed No stock of (investment) capital is accumulated V a l u e s poverty “In order that a manner of life well adapted to the peculiarities of capitalism could come to dominate others, it had to originate somewhere, and not in isolated individuals alone, but as a way of life common to whole groups of man."
Webers´ conceptof ‚HeroicEntrepreneurs‘ ‚cultureofinvestment ‘ (calvinist protestantism) HeroicEntrepreneurs: Extended motivation Overcomes balance of underdevelopment
HeroicEntrepreneurshipin timesofGlobalisation? Corporate Citizenship
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Citizenship is different from virtue-orientation Whatis Corporate Citizenship? Not ISOLATED ACTION... CITIZEN moral behavior individual moral standards ...it means INTERACTION! social order CITIZEN CITIZEN interaction
Traditional trade-off concept Corporate Citizenship – Basics SOCIETY COMPANY contrast EC.INTERESTS PHILANTHROPY zero-sum game concept
systemic thinking - WIN-WIN Corporate Citizenship – Basics SOCIETY WIN-WIN traditional trade-off concept COMPANY
Gallup – resultsofmotivation Emotionally bound Work torule Adverse feelings
Changingsocial Environment: Demography (Christa kolling)
CITIZEN: institutions PARTNER: networks SPONSOR: money Corporate CitizenshipStrategythethreestepsofcorporatecitizenship time horizon of investment impact on social environment
Challangesfor Companies Professional Management Structure Profil Partnership … examples …
Center for Corporate Citizenship: Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt: Auditoring in several Rakings Good company ranking: 120 CSR reports of German and European companies/ category society Results presented at the World Economic Forum 2007 Davos Results published in ManagerMagazin CC education: MA concept/ Summer school at the Univ. Lib. Bolzano
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The Commission is promoting the competitiveness of the European economy in the context of the relaunchedLisbon Partnership for Growth and Jobs. • In turn it calls on the European business community to pub-licly demonstrate its commitment to sustainable develop-ment, economic growth and more and better jobs, and to step up its commitment to CSR, including cooperation with other stakeholders. • More than ever Europe needs active entrepreneurs, positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship, and confidence and trust in business. Europe needs a public climate in which entrepreneurs are appreciated not just for making a good profit but also for making a fair contribution to addressing certain societal challenges.
‚HeroicEntrepreneurs‘ in the 21st century? cultureofinvestment in publicgoods civilsociety, politicians, capitalmarkets, scientists Corporate Citizens: Extended motivation Overcomes balance of social problems
Introduction Corporate Citizenship and the allocation of public goods Prof. Dr. André Habisch Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Center for Corporate Citizenship ICCSR Nottingham Business School End of presentation