The Role of Corporations in Shaping the Global Rules of the Game: In Search of New Foundations
本文指出当前管理框架难以解释企业参与塑造全球规则的现象,呼吁跨学科探索新概念基础,以连接规范性与实证研究。
ABSTRACT: Although a research focus on the increasing involvement of corporations in shaping and maintaining the global rules of the game points out promising avenues for future research, it simultaneously makes clear how little currently established, mostly managerial conceptual frameworks have to offer in making sense of these developments. It is argued that we need to expand the rather restricted perspectives that these frameworks provide, in order to explore new conceptual foundations that will not only enable us to travel the confines of the different disciplines involved with the study of the changing role of business in shaping the global rules of the game, but that can also systematically connect normative and positive research questions at the conceptual level. Three directions for this search for new foundations are briefly explored.