Thomas Donaldson

21.3k citations
80 papers · 14.0k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 27

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Thomas Donaldson

73 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

Ties That Bind: A Social Contracts Approach to Business Ethics 1999 · 720 citations
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Thomas Donaldson
Comparison fields: 5 of 138
  • Strategy and Management 8.2k
  • Information Systems and Management 3.5k
  • Marketing 3.9k
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 3.5k
  • Accounting 2.5k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20250
2 20235
3 202123
4 20210
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Normative Stakeholder Capitalism: Getting from Here to There
20151
6 20103
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Advancing Business Ethics Education
200817
8 20001
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Ethics in business and economics
19973
10 19969
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The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications
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19953432
12 19951
13 199568
14 199416
15 19941
16 1994334
17 19931
18 19856
19 198012
20 19731

About Thomas Donaldson

Thomas Donaldson is a scholar working on Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Theoretical Computer Science and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 80 papers that have together received 14.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ethics in Business and Education (39 papers), Management and Organizational Studies (19 papers), Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (14 papers), Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (7 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (5 papers), Corporate Law and Human Rights (3 papers) and War, Ethics, and Justification (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Strategy and Management (8.2k citations), Information Systems and Management (3.5k citations), Marketing (3.9k citations), Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (3.5k citations) and Accounting (2.5k citations). Thomas Donaldson has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Lee E. Preston, Thomas W. Dunfee, Patricia H. Werhane, James P. Walsh, R. Edward Freeman, Bradley R. Agle, Donna J. Wood, Michael C. Jensen, Ronald K. Mitchell and Al Gini. Their work appears in journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, California Management Review and Ethics.

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