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Conceptualising a public health disaster Alternative business interpretations

Conceptualising a public health disaster Alternative business interpretations This paper applies models from the literature of business to the aftermath of the e‐coli outbreak at Wishaw, Lanarkshire, in November 1996. Interpretations of social responsibility derived from Milton Friedman, social marketing, and stakeholder theory are used. It is suggested that Friedman’s approach is too narrow and limiting to allow all lessons to be drawn. While social marketing adds wider principles, it tends to focus primarily on the exchange dyad. Descriptive stakeholder theory allows the full range of implications to be appreciated, but the fullest treatment and best prescription for conceptualising such a disaster occurs through a normative stakeholder model with explicit ethical foundations. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png British Food Journal Emerald Publishing

Conceptualising a public health disaster Alternative business interpretations

British Food Journal , Volume 102 (2): 12 – Mar 1, 2000

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
ISSN
0007-070X
DOI
10.1108/00070700010313134
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Abstract

This paper applies models from the literature of business to the aftermath of the e‐coli outbreak at Wishaw, Lanarkshire, in November 1996. Interpretations of social responsibility derived from Milton Friedman, social marketing, and stakeholder theory are used. It is suggested that Friedman’s approach is too narrow and limiting to allow all lessons to be drawn. While social marketing adds wider principles, it tends to focus primarily on the exchange dyad. Descriptive stakeholder theory allows the full range of implications to be appreciated, but the fullest treatment and best prescription for conceptualising such a disaster occurs through a normative stakeholder model with explicit ethical foundations.

Journal

British Food JournalEmerald Publishing

Published: Mar 1, 2000

Keywords: Health; Social responsibility; Marketing; Stakeholders; Ethics

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