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Series: Elements in Organization Theory
Stakeholder Theory
Concepts and Strategies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2018
Summary
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 firms and their managers. They present a number of tools that managers can use to implement stakeholder thinking, better understand stakeholders and create value with and for them. The Element concludes by discussing how managers can create stakeholder oriented control systems and by examining some of the important stakeholder-related issues that are worthy of future scholarly and managerial attention.
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- Series: Elements in Organization TheoryOnline ISBN: 9781108539500Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication: 30 August 2018
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