Research on CSR has also accommodated various efforts to bring explicitly feminist perspectives to bear on the analysis of CSR. Feminist scholarship is historically and philosophically a broad church (Ahl 2006; Jaggar 1983), and this is reflected in feminist theoretical contributions to CSR literature. Explicitly feminist contributions may be grouped into at least four conversations, with the caveat that these are broad, non-exhaustive categories. One important set of feminist contributions probes key aspects of the influential stakeholder view of the firm, pointing out, for example, ways in which stakeholders may have been implicitly construed as ancillary, rather than integral, to the identity” of a corporation “basic (Buchholz & Rosenthal 2005; Spence 2014; Wicks, Gilbert, Daniel, & Freeman, 1994). These feminist contributions challenge the view of the firm as an entity that can be meaningfully excised from the relationships and communities in which it is situated, and detail the implications of this analysis (Burton & Dunn 1996; Lampe 2001; Wicks et al., 1994). A second and partially overlapping body of scholarship concerns feminist ontological and epistemological perspectives on the nature and situation of a firm, emphasizing the need to be attentive to the presence of masculinist assumptions such as atomic individualism (Buchholz & Rosenthal, 2005; Wicks, 1996) and the imperative towards control (Wicks, 1996), as well as to the gendered nature of labor markets (Pearson, 2007) and organizational practices (Marshall, 2007) when undertaking CSR scholarship. A third set of contributions articulates areas in which feminist ethics may advance understanding of corporations and citizenship (Grosser, 2009), governance (Machold et al., 2008), business ethics (Borgerson, 2007), and the practice of gender equality as CSR objective (Grosser, 2009; Larrieta-Rubín, Velasco-Balmaseda, Fernandez, Alonso-Almeida, & Intxaurburu-Clemente, 2015). Finally, scholarship exploring potential contributions from theorists emphasizing relationship and the ethic of care (much drawing on canonical work from scholars outside the field of business
Research on CSR has also accommodated various efforts to bring explicitly feminist perspectives to bear on the analysis of CSR. Feminist scholarship is historically and philosophically a broad church (Ahl 2006; Jaggar 1983), and this is reflected in feminist theoretical contributions to CSR literature. Explicitly feminist contributions may be grouped into at least four conversations, with the caveat that these are broad, non-exhaustive categories. One important set of feminist contributions probes key aspects of the influential stakeholder view of the firm, pointing out, for example, ways in which stakeholders may have been implicitly construed as ancillary, rather than integral, to the “basic identity” of a corporation (Buchholz & Rosenthal 2005; Spence 2014; Wicks, Gilbert, Daniel, & Freeman, 1994). These feminist contributions challenge the view of the firm as an entity that can be meaningfully excised from the relationships and communities in which it is situated, and detail the implications of this analysis (Burton & Dunn 1996; Lampe 2001; Wicks et al., 1994). A second and partially overlapping body of scholarship concerns feminist ontological and epistemological perspectives on the nature and situation of a firm, emphasizing the need to be attentive to the presence of masculinist assumptions such as atomic individualism (Buchholz & Rosenthal, 2005; Wicks, 1996) and the imperative towards control (Wicks, 1996), as well as to the gendered nature of labor markets (Pearson, 2007) and organizational practices (Marshall, 2007) when undertaking CSR scholarship. A third set of contributions articulates areas in which feminist ethics may advance understanding of corporations and citizenship (Grosser, 2009), governance (Machold et al., 2008), business ethics (Borgerson, 2007), and the practice of gender equality as CSR objective (Grosser, 2009; Larrieta-Rubín, Velasco-Balmaseda, Fernandez, Alonso-Almeida, & Intxaurburu-Clemente, 2015). Finally, scholarship exploring potential contributions from theorists emphasizing relationship and the ethic of care (much drawing on canonical work from scholars outside the field of business