Business environment class research paper
Business & Society Ethics, Sustainability & Stakeholder Management 10th Edition
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Chapter 3 The Stakeholder Approach to Business, Society, and Ethics
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Stakeholders
Stakeholder -
Any individual or group who can affect or is affected by the actions, decisions, policies, practices, or goals of the organization.
Stakeholder is a variant of the concept of stockholder—an investor/owner of businesses.
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Learning Outcomes
Identify origins of the stakeholder concept by explaining what a stake is and what a stakeholder is.
Explain who business’s stakeholders are in primary and secondary terms.
Differentiate among the three stakeholder approaches—strategic, multifiduciary, and synthesis.
Identify and explain the three values of the stakeholder model.
Name and describe the five key questions that capture the essence of stakeholder management.
Explain major concepts in effective stakeholder management to include stakeholder thinking, stakeholder culture, stakeholder management capability, and stakeholder engagement.
Describe the three strategic steps toward global stakeholder management.
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Chapter Outline
Origins of the Stakeholder Concept
Who Are Business’s Stakeholders?
Stakeholder Approaches
Three Values of the Stakeholder Model
Stakeholder Management Five Key Questions
Effective Stakeholder Management
Strategic Steps Toward Global Stakeholder Management
Summary
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
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Who are Business’s Stakeholders?
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Origins of the Stakeholder Concept
Stake -
An interest or a share in an undertaking.
Can be categorized as:
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Three Views of the Firm
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Production and Managerial Views of the Firm
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Stakeholder View of the Firm
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Missing Stakeholder
Media →
- Broadcast
-Social Media
- Independent
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Primary & Secondary Stakeholders
Primary stakeholders -
Have a direct stake in the organization and its success.
Secondary stakeholders -
Have a public or special interest stake in the organization that is more indirect.
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Social Stakeholders
| Primary social stakeholders | Secondary social stakeholders |
| Shareholders and investors | Government regulators |
| Employees and managers | Civic institutions |
| Customers | Social pressure groups |
| Local communities | Media and academic commentators |
| Suppliers and other business partners | Trade bodies |
| Competitors |
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Nonsocial Stakeholders
| Primary nonsocial stakeholders | Secondary nonsocial stakeholders |
| Natural environment | Environmental interest groups |
| Future generations | Animal welfare organizations |
| Nonhuman species |
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Important Stakeholder Attributes: Legitimacy, Power, Urgency
Legitimacy -
Refers to the perceived validity or appropriateness of the stakeholder’s claim to a stake.
Power -
Refers to the ability or capacity of a stakeholder to produce an effect.
Urgency -
Refers to the degree to which the stakeholder’s claim demands immediate attention or response.
Proximity -
The spatial distance between the organization and its stakeholders.
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Stakeholder Typology
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Stakeholder Approaches
Strategic approach -
Views stakeholders primarily as factors managers should manage in pursuit of shareholder profits.
Multifiduciary approach -
Views stakeholders as a group to which management has a fiduciary responsibility.
Stakeholder synthesis approach -
Considers stakeholders as a group to whom management owes an ethical, but not a fiduciary, obligation.
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Three Values of the Stakeholder Model
Descriptive Value
Instrumental Value
Normative Value
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Stakeholder Management: Five Key Questions
Who are our organization’s stakeholders?
What are our stakeholders’ stakes?
What opportunities and challenges do our stakeholders present to the firm?
What responsibilities (economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic) does the firm have to its stakeholders?
What strategies or actions should the firm take to best address stakeholder challenges and opportunities?
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Who Are Our Stakeholders?
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What Are Our Stakeholders’ Stakes?
To identify them, consider -
the nature and legitimacy of a group’s stakes.
the power of a group’s stakes.
subgroups within a generic group.
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What Opportunities and Challenges do Stakeholders Present?
Opportunities
Build productive working relationships with stakeholders
The potential for cooperation
Challenges
Representative of how the firm handles its stakeholders
The potential for threat
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What Responsibilities Does a Firm Have to its Stakeholders?
Apply Corporate Social Responsibility -
Responsibilities are
Economic
Legal
Ethical
Philanthropic
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The Stakeholder Responsibility Matrix
| Stakeholders | Economic | Legal | Ethical | Philanthropic |
| Owners | ||||
| Customers | ||||
| Employees | ||||
| Community | ||||
| Public at large | ||||
| Social Activists | ||||
| Other |
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What Strategies or Actions Should Management Take?
Do we deal directly or indirectly with stakeholders?
Do we take the offense or the defense in dealing with stakeholders?
Do we accommodate, negotiate, manipulate, or resist stakeholder overtures?
Do we employ a combination of the above strategies or pursue a singular course of action?
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Four Stakeholder Types -
The Supportive Stakeholder
High potential for cooperation, low for threat
The Marginal Stakeholder
Low potential for cooperation and threat
The Nonsupportive Stakeholder
High potential for threat, low for cooperation
The Mixed-Blessing Stakeholder
High on potential for threat & cooperation
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Effective Stakeholder Management
Stakeholder thinking -
The process of always reasoning in stakeholder terms throughout the management process.
Increases the complexity of decision-making, but most consistent with today’s business environment.
Is facilitated by
Stakeholder culture
Stakeholder management capability
Stakeholder corporation model
Principles of stakeholder management
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Developing a Stakeholder Culture
Stakeholder Culture embraces the beliefs, values, and practices that organizations have developed for addressing stakeholder issues and relationships.
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Stakeholder Management Capability
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Stakeholder Engagement -
An approach by which companies successfully implement the transactional level of strategic management capability.
Interaction with stakeholders must be integrated into every level of decision-making in the organization.
A ladder of stakeholder engagement depicts a continuum from low engagement to high engagement.
Transparency means working toward the open corporation.
Sustainability is the latest emphasis on engaging stakeholders.
Dialogue is primarily focused on exchanging communications with stakeholder groups.
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The Stakeholder Corporation
In the future, development of loyal relationships with customers, employees, shareholders, and other stakeholders will become one of the most important determinants of success.
The central element: Stakeholder inclusiveness
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The “Clarkson Principles” of Stakeholder Management
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Strategic Steps Toward Global Stakeholder Management
Governing Philosophy Integrate stakeholder management into the firm’s governing philosophy.
Values Statement Create a stakeholder-inclusive “values statement.”
Measurement System Implement a stakeholder performance measurement system.
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Implementation
Indicators of successful stakeholder management include:
Survival
Avoided costs
Continued acceptance and use
Expanded recognition and adoption
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Key Terms (1 of 2)
Clarkson principles
descriptive value (of stakeholder model)
instrumental value (of stakeholder model)
key questions (in stakeholder management)
legitimacy
managerial view of the firm
marginal stakeholder
mixed-blessing stakeholder
multifiduciary approach (to stakeholders)
nonsupportive stakeholder
normative value (of stakeholder model)
power
primary social Stakeholders
principles of stakeholder management
process level
production view of the firm
proximity
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Key Terms (2 of 2)
rational level
secondary nonsocial stakeholders
secondary social stakeholders
stake
stakeholder
stakeholder corporation
stakeholder culture
stakeholder engagement
stakeholder inclusiveness
stakeholder management
stakeholder management capability
stakeholder map
stakeholder mindset
stakeholder responsibility matrix
stakeholder symbiosis
stakeholder thinking
stakeholder unity
stakeholder view of the firm
supportive stakeholder
synthesis approach to stakeholders
transactional level
urgency
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