Stakeholder theory advocates that firms bear responsibility for the implications of their actions. However, while a … firm affects or can affect stakeholders, stakeholders can also affect the corporation. Previous stakeholder theorising has … stakeholders argues that various stakeholder attributes differ for different categories of stakeholders. This analysis presumes …

This paper is the third in a series of four that is directed at understanding and assessing stakeholder theory for the … approach, but accepting that implementation problems require limiting both the number of groupings admitted to stakeholder … version of the stakeholder approach in a fourth paper drawing upon this one and the previous two. Copyright Springer 2006 …