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Stakeholder Engagement: Past, Present, and Future Open
Stakeholder engagement has grown into a widely used yet often unclear construct in business and society research. The literature lacks a unified understanding of the essentials of stakeholder engagement, and the fragmented use of the stake…
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Stakeholder Theory As an Ethical Approach to Effective Management: applying the theory to multiple contexts Open
"This article provides a brief overview of stakeholder theory, clears up some widely held misconceptions, explains the importance of examining stakeholder theory from a variety of international perspectives and how this type of research wi…
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The science of stakeholder engagement in research: classification, implementation, and evaluation Open
In this commentary, we discuss the science of stakeholder engagement in research. We propose a classification system with definitions to determine where projects lie on the stakeholder engagement continuum. We discuss the key elements of i…
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Stakeholder Governance: Solving the Collective Action Problems in Joint Value Creation Open
Capitalism works when actors are motivated to engage in joint value creation. Stakeholder theorists have long argued that this is most likely when firms “manage for stakeholders,” but have only recently explicitly recognized that stakehold…
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Integrating Insights From the Resource-Based View of the Firm Into the New Stakeholder Theory Open
A powerful new stakeholder theory (NST) of strategic management is emerging. The theory, which is yet incomplete, offers novel and precise tools for understanding stakeholder involvement in organizations. This article identifies open quest…
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Secondary Stakeholder Influence on CSR Disclosure: An Application of Stakeholder Salience Theory Open
The aim of this study is to analyse how secondary stakeholders influence managerial decision-making on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure. Based on stakeholder salience theory, we empirically investigate whether differences i…
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Trade-offs in ecosystem services and varying stakeholder preferences: evaluating conflicts, obstacles, and opportunities Open
In efforts to increase human well-being while maintaining the natural systems and processes upon which we depend, navigating the trade-offs that can arise between different ecosystem services is a profound challenge. We evaluated a recentl…
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Who and What Really Counts? Stakeholder Prioritization and Accounting for Social Value Open
Research in stakeholder management has theorized extensively the prioritization of stakeholders as a key dynamic of firms’ value creation, but has paid less attention to the organizational practices involved in the process of deciding ‘who…
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Value creation in circular economy business for sustainability: A stakeholder relationship perspective Open
A circular economy (CE) requires companies to rethink their value creation and stakeholder relationships. While value creation in a CE business is typically understood from a company‐centric perspective, this article utilises stakeholder t…
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Stakeholder Engagement for Inclusive Water Governance: “Practicing What We Preach” with the OECD Water Governance Initiative Open
A cursory glance at the literature on water governance reveals that stakeholder engagement has long been considered an integral part of sound governance processes. However, a closer look at the literature reveals that, beyond this general …
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A framework for integrating systematic stakeholder analysis in ecosystem services research: Stakeholder mapping for forest ecosystem services in the UK Open
The concept of ecosystem services offers a useful framework for the systematic assessment of the multiple benefits ecosystems deliver. However, the anthropogenic focus of the concept also requires a detailed understanding of the stakeholde…
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Stakeholder engagement and dialogic accounting Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how sustainability reporting and stakeholder engagement processes serve as vehicles of dialogic accounting (DA), a form of critical accounting that creates opportunities for stakeholders to e…
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Stakeholder Theory at the Crossroads Open
The stakeholder perspective has provided a rich forum for a variety of debates at the intersection of business and society. Scholars gathered for two consecutive years, first in North America, and then in Europe, to discuss the major issue…
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A stakeholder theory approach to creating value in higher education institutions Open
Purpose This paper aims to empirically verify whether the development of improved relationships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and their stakeholders based on the principles of stakeholder theory creates more value. Design/me…
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Stakeholder engagement for responsible innovation in the private sector: critical issues and management practices Open
Although both EU policy makers and researchers acknowledge that public or stakeholder engagement is important for responsible innovation (RI), empirical evidence in this field is still scarce. In this article, we explore to what extent com…
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Stakeholder and Public Involvement in Risk Governance Open
Stakeholder involvement has been a major requirement for effective, efficient, and fair risk governance. Since risk management includes uncertain outcomes that affect different parts of the population to different degrees it is essential t…
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Antecedents and outcomes of sustainable shipping practices: The integration of stakeholder and behavioural theories Open
This paper analyses the drivers and outcomes of sustainable shipping practices through the lenses of stakeholder, planned behaviour, and resource dependence theories. Theoretical models were systematically developed and compared using surv…
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Stakeholder engagement in business models for sustainability: The stakeholder value flow model for sustainable development Open
This paper aims to investigate how stakeholder groups engaged by the company contribute to the value flow of business models for sustainability. The research aims to expand the knowledge on business models for sustainability by highlightin…
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A framework for stakeholder engagement during systematic reviews and maps in environmental management Open
People have a stake in conservation and environmental management both for their own interests and the sake of the environment itself. Environmental decision-making has changed somewhat in recent decades to account for unintentional impacts…
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Shake Your Stakeholder: Firms Leading Engagement to Cocreate Sustainable Value Open
While most extant scholarship has focused on how stakeholders influence firms, we propose that firms play a critical role in “shaking” stakeholders. Shaking stakeholders means to proactively initiate cooperation with those affected by a fi…
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An applied methodology for stakeholder identification in transdisciplinary research Open
In this paper we present a novel methodology for identifying stakeholders for the purpose of engaging with them in transdisciplinary, sustainability research projects. In transdisciplinary research, it is important to identify a range of s…
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Stakeholder theory, strategy, and organization: Past, present, and future Open
We reflect on the past, present, and future of stakeholder theory, focusing on its link to strategy and organization scholarship. Stakeholder theory was originally conceived as a theory of strategic management, but for most of its history …
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Balancing stakeholder needs in the evaluation of healthcare quality improvement Open
Quality improvement (QI) efforts affect a broader range of people than we often assume. These are the potential stakeholders for QI and its evaluation, and they have valuable perspectives to offer when they are consulted in planning, condu…
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Strengthening governance processes to improve benefit-sharing from tourism in protected areas by using stakeholder analysis Open
In tourism, the concept of “benefit-sharing” refers to the idea that the benefits arising from tourism should be distributed across a wide range of stakeholders. We argue that the development of synergetic interactions between stakeholders…
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Stakeholder Mapping to Co-Create Nature-Based Solutions: Who Is on Board? Open
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are inspired and supported by nature but designed by humans. Historically, governmental stakeholders have aimed to control nature using a top-down approach; more recently, environmental governance has shifted t…
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Stakeholder initiatives in flood risk management: exploring the role and impact of bottom-up initiatives in three ‘Room for the River’ projects in the Netherlands Open
In recent years stakeholder participation has become a popular topic in flood management. Little is known about how and under which circumstances local stakeholders initiate and develop successful flood management strategies and how govern…
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Stakeholder engagement through empowerment: The case of coffee farmers Open
While most studies on stakeholder engagement focus on high‐power stakeholders (typically, employees), limited attention has been devoted to the engagement of low‐power stakeholders. These have been defined as vulnerable stakeholders for th…
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A Systematic Review of Eco-Innovation and Performance from the Resource-Based and Stakeholder Perspectives Open
The growing concerns surrounding the precarious state of the biosphere have triggered organizations to develop and implement innovations that curb environmental degradation (eco-innovation). However, eco-innovation is a risky proposition f…
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Understanding of Public–Private Partnership Stakeholders as a Condition of Sustainable Development Open
The strategic goal of city management is to ensure its sustainable development which requires a balance of rare resources. From the operational perspective, namely projects implementing sustainable development, the balance refers to human …
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How Shareholders Impact Stakeholder Interests: A Review and Map for Future Research Open
Research on how shareholders influence the interests of stakeholders has proliferated in recent years, at pace with the active debate on the merits of “stakeholder capitalism.” This research has sought to unpack: (1) the types of sharehold…