The lack of specificity around stakeholder identity remains a serious obstacle to the further development of stakeholder theory and its adoption in actual practice by business managers. Nowhere is this shortcoming more evident than in stakeholder theory's treatment of the constituency known as...

This paper seeks to bridge the gulf between business ethics scholarship and management practice by exploring the links between two topics that have, to date, been neatly divided by what Freeman terms the Separation Thesis. The first topic is moral imagination, an issue of growing interest to...

In this paper, we propose that we will not be able to develop compelling explanations of entrepreneurial activity until we make a fundamental adjustment to our underlying assumptions of human action, replacing our reliance upon a rational actor model of human behavior with a model that...