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    Supports→Stakeholder theory is more accommodating of prosocial activity by firms than shareholder primacy

    Stakeholder theory permits firms to pursue goals other than increasing shareholder wealth

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    Many writers connect the debate about CSR with the debate about the ends of corporate governance. Thus Friedman (1970) objects to CSR, saying that managers should be maximizing shareholder wealth instead. (Friedman also thinks that CSR is a usurpation of the democratic process and often wasteful, since managers aren’t experts in solving social problems.) Stakeholder theory (Freeman et al. 2010) is thought to be more accommodating of prosocial activity by firms, since it permits firms to do thing

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