The Meaning of Shared Value : New Perspective on Creating Shared Value (Paperback)

1. Introduction

2. The starting point: Creating Shared Value, the Big Idea, and following debate

2.1. The self-styled ‘Big Idea’: Creating Shared Value

2.2. The opponents’ position and the main criticisms to CSV

2.3. The defenders of CSV

2.4. The middle position: cautious enthusiasm and constructive criticism

2.5. What about our perspective?

3. A critical exegesis of the meaning of value

3.1. What essentially is value?

3.2. The beginnings: the concept of value in Economics

3.3. The creation of the false dichotomy

3.3.1. The concept of value in Financial and Strategic Management

3.3.2. A walk around a ‘socially sensitive’ stream: stakeholder theory and CSR literature

3.4 Value creation vs value capture: the distributional question

4. The disputed naivete of CSV and its roots in a primordial contrast

4.1. A naive or rather an optimist concept?

4.2. Philosophical roots of Optimism and Pessimism

4.3. Towards a rationally founded Optimism

5. Concluding reflections