According to S. Venkataraman, value is discovered (orcreated) when the entrepreneur productively combines resources, ideas, andstakeholders in order to bring new goods and services into existence. Entrepreneurship theory works in conjunction with ethics, which is concernedwith the methods used...

Can shareholder-owned corporations maximize profits without harming their stakeholders? This was the central question of the first QUASI (Questions and Unanswers About Social Innovation) webinar. The ‘Yes’ side argues that 1) firms are conditioned to avoid harming stakeholders, 2) firms with...

As stakeholder relationships and business in society have become increasingly central to the unfolding of stakeholder thinking, important new topics have begun to take centre stage in both the worlds of practice and academia. The essays in this book focus on the practice of stakeholder engagement