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For the last decade or more, academics and some businesspeople have argued that corporations should become involved in acts of political corporate social responsibility (PSCR). The justification for PCSR is located variously in corporate capacities (Wettstein 2012), corporations’ status as citizens (Moon et al. 2006), multinational corporations’ replacing of the nation-state (Scherer and Palazzo 2011), etc. These defenses of PCSR are ungrounded to the extent that PCSR advocates either do not define what is meant by the “political,” or they define it in circular terms. To rectify this dangerous lack of analytical clarity, I offer a neo-Aristotelian approach to PCSR aimed at enabling us to more systematically ascertain which sorts of corporate political activities might be politically acceptable and which not. I conclude with some thoughts regarding the possibilities and limits of this approach to PCSR and highlight some significant ways in which it differs from other current approaches to PCSR.

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Drawing Upon Aristotle to Ground and Limit Political Corporate Social Responsibility (PCSR)

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    2026年

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  • Daryl Koehn

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For the last decade or more, academics and some businesspeople have argued that corporations should become involved in acts of political corporate social responsibility (PSCR). The justification for PCSR is located variously in corporate capacities (Wettstein 2012), corporations’ status as citizens (Moon et al. 2006), multinational corporations’ replacing of the nation-state (Scherer and Palazzo 2011), etc. These defenses of PCSR are ungrounded to the extent that PCSR advocates either do not define what is meant by the “political,” or they define it in circular terms. To rectify this dangerous lack of analytical clarity, I offer a neo-Aristotelian approach to PCSR aimed at enabling us to more systematically ascertain which sorts of corporate political activities might be politically acceptable and which not. I conclude with some thoughts regarding the possibilities and limits of this approach to PCSR and highlight some significant ways in which it differs from other current approaches to PCSR.