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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT


Finding Hard Evidences for the Soft Rhetoric of the Stakeholder Theory

Author(s): Evandro Bocatto, Eloisa Perez-de-Toledo

Citation: Evandro Bocatto, Eloisa Perez-de-Toledo, (2018)"Finding Hard Evidences for the Soft Rhetoric of the Stakeholder Theory," American Journal of Management, Vol. 18, Iss. 1, pp. 61-75

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

The hard-science type of rhetoric present in the dominant model in management is put under scrutiny. As a result, the shareholders’ profit maximization ideal is understood as just a competing socially
constructed rhetoric. We are motivated by: 1. why is it taken for granted that the dominant model of
business activity is scientific? and, 2. How the competing stakeholder approach would look like? We
present mathematical equations that capture other constructs (e.g. women and employee participation,
CSR, CER) and propose a stakeholder index (GOV-Icompr). Results indicate that companies that include other stakeholders have superior market value (measured by Tobin’s q).