The Cambridge Handbook of Stakeholder Theory

Jeffrey S. Harrison is a University Distinguished Educator and the W. David Robbins Chair of Strategic Management at the Robins School of Business, University of Richmond. Jay B. Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and the Pierre Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. R. Edward Freeman is University Professor and Olsson Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia. Robert A. Phillips is Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy and the George R. Gardiner Professor in Business Ethics at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.

'The stakeholder approach to business is critical to bringing about widespread societal and planetary flourishing. This volume is an authoritative and indispensable contribution towards moving the stakeholder mindset to its deserved central place in business theory and practice.' Raj Sisodia, F. W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business, Babson College, Massachusetts and Co-founder and co-chairman of Conscious Capitalism International

• 1. Stakeholder theory Robert A. Phillips, Jay B. Barney, R. Edward Freeman and Jeffrey S. Harrison; 2. Pragmatism and pluralism: a moral foundation for stakeholder theory in the twenty-first century Paul C. Godfrey and Ben Lewis; 3. Critical management studies and stakeholder theory: possibilities for a critical stakeholder theory Michelle Greenwood and Raza Mir; 4. Stakeholder identification and its importance in the value creating system of stakeholder work Ronald K. Mitchell; 5. Sustainable wealth creation: applying instrumental stakeholder theory to the improvement of social welfare Thomas M. Jones and Jeffrey S. Harrison; 6. Connecting stakeholder theory to the law and public policy Andrew C. Wicks, F. A. Elmore and David Jonas; 7. Shareholder primacy vs stakeholder theory: the law as constraint and potential enabler of stakeholder concerns David Rönnegard and N. Craig Smith; 8. Business, the natural environment, and sustainability Jacob Hörisch and Stefan Schaltegger; 9. Motivating boundary-spanning employees to engage external stakeholders: insights from stakeholder marketing C. B. Battacharya and Daniel Korschun; 10. Stakeholder value equilibration and the entrepreneurial process S. Venkataraman; 11. Stakeholder theory and accounting Samantha Miles; 12. The stakeholder perspective in strategic management Douglas A. Bosse and Trey Sutton; 13. Stakeholder theory in management education Irene Henriques; 14. The practice of stakeholder engagement Johanna Kujala and Sybille Sachs; 15. Considering a behavioral view of stakeholders Jonathan Bundy; 16. Behavioral stakeholder theory Donal Crilly; 17. Sketches of new and future research on stakeholder management Sinziana Dorobantu; 18. Contextual richness at the core of new stakeholder research Lite J. Nartey.