Conceptualizing data‐deliberation: The starry sky beetle, environmental system risk, and Habermasian CSR in the digital age
Informazioni aggiuntive
Autori
Schultz M. D.,
Seele P.
Tipo
Articolo pubblicato in rivista scientifica
Anno
2020
Lingua
Inglese
Abstract
Building on an illustrative case of a systemic environmental threat and its multi-stakeholder response, this paper draws attention to the changing political impacts of corporations in the digital age. Political Corporate Social Responsibility (PCSR) theory suggests an expanded sense of politics and corporations, including impacts that may range from voluntary initiatives to overcome governance gaps, to avoiding state regulation via corporate political activity. Considering digitalization as a stimulus, we explore potential responsibilities of corporations toward public goods in contexts with functioning governments. We show that digitalization - in the form of transparency, surveillance, and data-sharing - offers corporations’ scope for deliberative public participation. The starry sky beetle infestation endangering public and private goods is thereby used to illustrate the possibility of expanding the political role of corporations in the digital sphere. We offer a contribution by conceptualizing data-deliberation as a Habermasian variation of PCSR, defined as the (1) voluntary disclosure of corporate data and its transparent, open sharing with the public sector (2) along with the cooperation with governmental institutions on data analytics methods for examining large-scale data sets (3) thereby complying with existing national and international regulations on data protection, in particular with respect to privacy and personal data.
Rivista
Business Ethics: A European Review
Volume
29
Numero
2
Mese
aprile
Pagina inizio
303
Pagina fine
313
