Corporate Governance and Ethics: A Feminist Perspective

Silke Machold, Pervaiz K. Ahmed, Stuart S. Farquhar

Journal of Business Ethics · 2008 · Volume 81 · Issue 3

Abstract

The mainstream literature on corporate governance is based on the premise of conflicts of interest in a competitive game played by variously defined stakeholders and thus builds explicitly and/or implicitly on masculinist ethical theories. This article argues that insights from feminist ethics, and in particular ethics of care, can provide a different, yet relevant, lens through which to study corporate governance. Based on feminist ethical theories, the article conceptualises a governance model that is different from the current normative orthodoxy.

Keywords

corporate governance, ethical theories, feminist ethics

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