The Evolution of Corporate Social Responsiveness
通过芬兰和加拿大四家大型林业公司的案例，检验了议题生命周期理论、合法性理论和利益相关者理论在企业议题管理中的适用性，发现三种视角各有价值但分析层次和时间框架不同。
In this article, the authors investigate the applicability and usefulness of three alternative perspectives on corporate issues management: issue life cycle theory, legitimacy theory, and stakeholder theory. Each perspective makes certain as- sumptions about the nature of issues management activities and certain general predictions about corporate social responsiveness. The authors test the relative applicability of the three theories through a case study of the issues management activities of four large forestry companies in Finland and Canada. The authors conclude that all three perspectives have value but differ in the level of analysis and time frame to which they apply.