Stakeholder theory : a model for strategic management / Maria Bonnafous-Boucher, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff.

This book presents an academic introduction, presentation and argument of stakeholder theory as as a model for strategic management of business firms and corporations and public organizations and institutions. The concept of stakeholder is generally used for the parties that affect or are affected b...

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Main Authors: Bonnafous-Boucher, Maria (Author), Rendtorff, Jacob Dahl, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Series:SpringerBriefs in ethics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: From "The Stakeholder" to Stakeholder Theory; Definitions; Conceptual Framework: R.E. Freeman (1984-2010) and His Followers; Parameters of the Theory; Epistemological Debates and Theoretical Pluralism; Is Stakeholder Theory a Theory?; A Concrete Theory: Categorizing the Actors Who Count in Corporate Strategy; A Theoretical Pluralism Revealed by Donaldson and Preston (1995); Critiques of the Theory; The Scope of the Theory and Its Potential for Expansion; Chapter 2: Stakeholder Theory in Strategic Management.
  • Representations of the Corporation in Strategic Management and the Emergence of Stakeholder Theory (1980-1990) Between 1950 and 1968, an Economistic Approach to the Corporation; 1968 and 1985: Strategic Representations of the Corporation; 1985 and 1995: A Financial Vision Combined with Multi-ƯCriteria Performance and a Conception Offering an Alternative to Financial Orthodoxy; Since 1995: A Multitude of Different Perspectives; The Role of Stakeholder Theory in Corporate Strategy; The Corporation Between Dependence on the Environment and Policy Self-Determination.
  • Stakeholder Theory: Promoting Strategic Management, 1970-1980 A Pluralist Representation of the Corporation and of the Organization: Toward Partnership-Based Corporate Governance; Strategic Models Which Are Not Congruent with Stakeholder Theory: Michael Porter; Michael Porter's Competitive Advantage; Richard D'Aveni's Hyper-Competition Model (1994-2010); Strategic Models Compatible with Stakeholder Theory; The Corporation as a Political System: The Francophone School of 1980-2009; Resource and Skills-Based Strategy; The Relational View.
  • Impact of Stakeholder Theory on Strategic Marketing and Research in Negotiation Conclusion; Chapter 3: Stakeholder Theory as a Theory of Organizations; Stakeholder Theory, a Factor of Change in Organization Theory; From Structure to Its Fragmentation: The Internationalization of Organizations and of Inter-Ưorganizational Relations; The Increasing Internationalized of Firms: From Very Large Companies to Companies That Are Born Global; International Regulatory Organizations with a Global Vocation; Public Organizations Undergoing Profound Changes.
  • Organization Theory and Stakeholder Theory The Organization as Relation and as Organized But Unexpected Action; Organized Action as Sensemaking; Other Currents Relevant to Stakeholder Theory; The Neo-Institutionalist Current; Political Approaches; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Political Philosophy Interpellated by Stakeholder Theory; Conflict Between Institutions and Organizations; From Civil Society to Stakeholder Society?; The Hegelian Theory of Civil Society; Three Factors of Correspondence Between Civil Society and Stakeholder Society; Stakeholder Theory and the Social Contract.