Ethics and Incentives
通过医疗行业案例和法律案例，指出利益相关者理论只关注伦理而忽视激励，限制了其指导管理行为和解释管理行为的能力，并说明加入伦理与激励的交互作用能增强理论的解释力和指导力。
This paper utilizes a qualitative case study of the health care industry and a recent legal case to demonstrate that stakeholder theory’s focus on ethics, without recognition of the effects of incentives, severely limits the theory’s ability to provide managerial direction and explain managerial behavior. While ethics provide a basis for stakeholder prioritization, incentives influence whether managerial action is consistent with that prioritization. Our health care examples highlight this and other limitations of stakeholder theory and demonstrate the explanatory and directive power added by the inclusion of the interactive effects of ethics and incentives in stakeholder ordering.