The purpose of this paper is to examine the recent controversy in health care delivery around whether or not it should be conceptualized as a business. Concurrently, should health care organizations adopt standard business practices? We suggest that such questions implicitly appeal to a common...

Stakeholder theory tends to focus on basic business assumptions, assigning simple roles to stakeholders and relying on a separation thesis (the idea that business and ethics can be separated).The role of the stakeholder in business relationships is reconsidered, choosing to focus on...

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...