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    Integrating business and society’s five frameworks: A critical appraisal of Schwartz and Carroll's proposal in the context of South African corporate governance and business ethics
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12) Beale, Thomas Jason; Hattingh, Johan P.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Philosophy: Centre for Applied Ethics.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research is to find or formulate a few, robust conceptual frameworks that can enable me to better answer—from a business ethics and South African corporate governance perspective—a number of questions regarding the relationships amongst five fields, frameworks and/or functions that feature in the governance and management of the relationship between business and society, viz. business ethics, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder relations, sustainability and corporate citizenship. This is done by strengthening and extending Schwartz and Carroll’s (2008) research on integrating and unifying these five frameworks, which compete for ‘pre-eminence’ in the field of business and society. The main outputs of their research are a conceptual framework for the comparative analysis of the five frameworks, and a proposed Value, Balance and Accountability (VBA) Model that can serve as a common, core construct in the field of business and society. Their two conceptual frameworks, strengthened through their incorporation into a concentric, conceptual framework of my own that highlights the importance of applied (business) ethics, are then used to analyse—and are checked against—the Institute of Directors of South Africa’s (IODSA’s) King Committee’s guidance on corporate governance. The analysis confirms the validity of the conceptual framework and VBA model in that context, and their usefulness for the explanatory purposes stated above.