Small business political responsibility
提出小企业政治责任概念,构建以所有者管理者政治身份为中心的理论模型,强调小企业政治责任由管理自主权决定,而非社会规范评价。
While significant research addresses social responsibility in small businesses, studies on small business social responsibility (SBSR) overlook its political aspects. This gap persists despite a noticeable ‘political turn’ in corporate social responsibility research, which focuses on large multinationals tackling societal challenges amid ineffective state regulation. However, micro- and small businesses also engage with the political dimensions of social responsibility, albeit differently. This conceptual article introduces the concept of small business political responsibility (SBPR) and develops an original SBPR model centred on the political identities of owner-managers. It suggests that SBPR is dynamic, shaped by individual agency and highlights the importance of analysing the private sector’s political role from a small business perspective. Here, SBPR depends on managerial discretion rather than normative evaluations from civil society or local communities.