S. Aßländer, Michael2019-09-252019-09-252013-01-022012http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/188692Recent discussions on Corporate Citizenship (CC) highlight the new socio-political role of corporations in society by arguing that corporations increasingly act as quasi-governmental actors and take on what hitherto had originally been governmental tasks. By examining political and sociological citizenship theories, we show that such a corporate engagement can be explained by a changing (self-) conception of corporate citizens from corporate bourgeois to corporate citoyen. Whereas the corporate bourgeois is acting mainly for private business purposes, the corporate citoyen engages in society by performing his civil and political rights and duties. As an intermediate actor in society, the corporate citoyen therefore assumes co-responsibilities for social and civic affairs and actively collaborates with his fellow-citizens beyond governmental regulation. In order to clarify the mode of such a corporate citizenship contribution to society, we introduce the tenet of subsidiarity as a governing principle which allows for specifying corporations’ tasks as intermediate actors in society.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderBourgeois, Citoyen, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Responsibility, SubsidiarityPolitical ethicsEthics of lawRights based legal ethicsGovernance and ethicsConference proceedings