Scholars of stakeholder management have long grappled with the question of how to communicate with stakeholders to enhance cooperation and reduce conflict. We build on insights from the literature on stakeholder dialog to highlight the importance of four elements of firm-stakeholder dialog...

Despite growing engagements between firms and non-market stakeholders — such as local communities and nongovernmental organizations — research has yet to examine the emergence of formal contracts between them. Given that a very large number of such contracts are theoretically possible but...

This paper examines when and how a critical mass of social and political stakeholders mobilizes against a corporate organization, and the impact of such mobilization on the value of the organization. We examine the conditions and dynamics that explain whether an isolated, stakeholder-initiated...