Question: What are your thoughts on Stakeholder Capitalism?
Answer: All of my thoughts about it are negative. Philosophically this is an applied business ethics concept. A contrast between egoism, in moral theory, and forms of altruism and/or collectivism in moral theory become applied to business.
The best way to see this is to consider the status say of a single person in business dealing with a single customer. The stockholder, which say it is, is my business, I will enter into this transaction with this potential customer if it serves my interest; and the assumption is that the customer is also looking after his or her interests. If we both agree, we will do the deal, if not we will go our separate ways.
The stakeholder approach by contrast makes the assumption that one has an obligation to be in business, or if one is already in business, anyone who has a stake, has an equal say in how the business should go, and that sometimes is going to involve some sacrifices on the part of the business owner and that I reject.
Stephen R. C. Hicks is a Senior Scholar for The Atlas Society and Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University. He is also the Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University.
Es autor de El arte de razonar: Lecturas para el análisis lógico (W. W. Norton & Co., 1998), Explaining Postmodernism: Escepticismo y socialismo de Rousseau a Foucault (Scholargy, 2004), Nietzsche y los nazis (La navaja de Ockham, 2010), La vida empresarial (CEEF, 2016), Liberalism Pro and Con (Connor Court, 2020), Arte: Modern, Postmodern, and Beyond (con Michael Newberry, 2021) y Eight Philosophies of Education (2022). Ha publicado en Business Ethics Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics y The Wall Street Journal. Sus escritos se han traducido a 20 idiomas.
Ha sido Profesor Visitante de Ética Empresarial en la Universidad de Georgetown en Washington, D.C., Profesor Visitante en el Social Philosophy & Policy Center de Bowling Green, Ohio, Profesor Visitante en la Universidad de Kasimir el Grande, Polonia, Profesor Visitante en el Harris Manchester College de la Universidad de Oxford, Inglaterra, y Profesor Visitante en la Universidad Jagiellonian, Polonia.
Es licenciado y máster por la Universidad de Guelph (Canadá). Se doctoró en Filosofía por la Universidad de Indiana, Bloomington (EE.UU.).
En 2010 ganó el Premio a la Excelencia Docente de su universidad.
Su serie de podcasts Open College está publicada por Possibly Correct Productions, Toronto. Sus conferencias y entrevistas en vídeo están en línea en CEE Video Channel, y su sitio web es StephenHicks.org.
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