Steven L. Wartick

Toward a Substantive Definition of the Corporate Issue Construct: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature

This article works toward a more meaningful answer to the question, What is a corporate issue? The article builds from existing literature in business strategy, public policy, and business and society. It synthesizes and integrates this literature and then expands the major points. The result is a reformulated definition of the corporate issue construct that enhances theory building and research activities in the area of issues management.

Assessing corporate social performance: linking strategy and stakeholders of the firm

This paper is an attempt to merge the concepts of social performance, strategy and stakeholders into a useful framework. The utility of the framework is meant to aid practitioners in making decisions and assessing the interplay of social performance, strategy and stakeholders in day-to-day managerial operations. In addition, we have proposed a model and approach that we believe are useful for future research. Finally, we propose a methodology for actual measurement of corporate social performance that is of value to practising managers and researchers.