This introductory essay argues that the use of the concept of deliberative democracy in CSR re-search needs to be theoretically extended. We review three developments that have recently oc-curred in deliberative democracy theory within political science and philosophy: (1) the concep-tualization...

In this paper we draw on insights from Habermasian deliberative democracy to reshape the discussion around corporate citizenship and present an enhanced concept by focusing on the process of legitimation of corporate actions. In the age of globalization, multinational corporations have expanded...