In the decades since R. Edward Freeman first introduced stakeholder theory, which views firms in terms of their relationships to a broad set of partners, the stakeholder approach has drawn increasing attention as a model for ethical business. Edited by Freeman, alongside other leading scholars...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Managing for Stakeholders -- Chapter 2: Business in the Twenty-first Century -- Chapter 3: The Basic Framework -- Chapter 4: Stakeholders, Purpose, and Values -- Chapter 5: Everyday Strategies for Creating Value for...

Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation, and Success, the culmination of twenty years of research, interviews, and observations in the workplace, makes a major new contribution to management thinking and practice. Current ways of thinking about business and stakeholder management usually...

The stakeholder perspective is an alternative way of understanding how companies and people create value and trade with each other. Freeman, Harrison and Zyglidopoulos discuss the foundation concepts and implementation of stakeholder management as well as the advantages this approach provides to...