Three Interrelated Discourses: Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Sustainability (Article Critique Sample)

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In the first reading, Banerjee (2008) critically examines three interrelated discourses or concepts that include corporate citizenship and corporate sustainability as well as corporate social responsibility. The author contends that these concepts have been ideologically designed with emancipatory intentions, but instead, they have resulted in a specific system of corporate rationality serving to marginalize stakeholder groups. In particular, the author perceives that these discourses have turned out to be movements ideologically championing power consolidation and legitimization for large companies. In that case, business interests barely define the three discourses in a style that inhibits external stakeholders’ interest. Synthesizing the author’s arguments critically, it can be inferred the three discourses are strategies meant for the ultimate good of corporations, and not for social good and public good. In this line of argument, it becomes certain that corporate social responsibility and the other two discourses focus on upholding the identity of a corporation, limiting the scope of social responsibility.
In the second reading, Carroll (2004) explores the importance of business ethics to managers and corporations dealing with global stakeholders. Here, the author argues that business ethics with respect to the global corporate arena require high profile prioritization, radical practice, and cutting-edge thinking. This is because the scope of corporate sustainability, social responsibility, and stakeholders’ interests and rights is wider in the international business sphere than in the domestic corporate domain. Widening of this scope requires transcending the domestic prioritization of business ethics, and becoming totally performance-oriented in...