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Company Stakeholder Responsibility: A New Approach to CSR

R. Edward Freeman S. Ramakrishna Velamuri Brian Moriarty

Featuring a Thought Leader Commentary™ with Charles O. Holliday, Jr. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DuPont

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Foreword ....................................................................................................2 introduction ..............................................................................................2 Company stakeholder responsibility in Practice: Four Levels of Commitment to the stakeholder approach ...................4 Ten Principles of Company stakeholder responsibility .........................5 a New Csr – Company stakeholder responsibility ..............................8 Thought Leader Commentary™ with Charles O. Holliday, Jr. ...............9 about the authors ...................................................................................13

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