Stakeholders

Edited by Robert A. Phillips, Associate Professor, University of Richmond, US and R. Edward Freeman, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, The Darden School, University of Virginia, US

‘The specialists in stakeholder theory Robert A. Philips and R. Edward Freeman have done a very good job in making this collection of what they consider as the most important articles in stakeholder theory. The book is a central reference collection that is indispensable for the scholar and student in stakeholder theory. . . this is a well-selected collection of the field of stakeholder management that contains all the most important articles and positions of the field of stakeholder theory.’

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroductionRobert A. Phillips and R. Edward Freeman1. R. Edward Freeman (1984), ‘Stakeholder Management: Framework and Philosophy’2. R. Edward Freeman and William M. Evan (1990), ‘Corporate Governance: A Stakeholder Interpretation’3. R. Edward Freeman (1994), ‘The Politics of Stakeholder Theory: Some Future Directions’4. Margaret M. Blair (1995), ‘Whose Interests Should Corporations Serve?’5. Thomas M. Jones (1995), ‘Instrumental Stakeholder Theory: A Synthesis of Ethics and Economics’6. Margaret M. Blair (1998), ‘For Whom Should Corporations Be Run? An Economic Rationale for Stakeholder Management’7. Thomas Donaldson and Lee E. Preston (1995), ‘The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications’8. Ronald K. Mitchell, Bradley R. Agle and Donna J. Wood (1997), ‘Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts’9. Robert A. Phillips (1997), ‘Stakeholder Theory and a Principle of Fairness’10. Timothy J. Rowley (1997), ‘Moving Beyond Dyadic Ties: A Network Theory of Stakeholder Influences’11. Jeff Frooman (1999), ‘Stakeholder Influence Strategies’12. Russell W. Coff (1999), ‘When Competitive Advantage Doesn’t Lead to Performance: The Resource-based View and Stakeholder Bargaining Power’13. Shawn L. Berman, Andrew C. Wicks, Suresh Kotha and Thomas M. Jones (1999), ‘Does Stakeholder Orientation Matter? The Relationship Between Stakeholder Management Models and Firm Financial Performance’14. Thomas M. Jones and Andrew C. Wicks (1999), ‘Convergent Stakeholder Theory’15. Stuart Ogden and Robert Watson (1999), ‘Corporate Performance and Stakeholder Management: Balancing Shareholder and Customer Interests in the U.K. Privatized Water Industry’16. Richard Marens and Andrew Wicks (1999), ‘Getting Real: Stakeholder Theory, Managerial Practice, and The General Irrelevance of Fiduciary Duties Owed to Shareholders’17. Thomas A. Kochan and Saul A. Rubinstein (2000), ‘Toward a Stakeholder Theory of the Firm: The Saturn Partnership’18. Michael C. Jensen (2002), ‘Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function’19. S. Venkataraman (2002), ‘Stakeholder Value Equilibration and the Entrepreneurial Process’20. Marguerite Schneider (2002), ‘A Stakeholder Model of Organizational Leadership’21. R. Edward Freeman and Robert A. Phillips (2002), ‘Stakeholder Theory: A Libertarian Defense’22. Richard A. Wolfe and Daniel S. Putler (2002), ‘How Tight Are the Ties that Bind Stakeholder Groups?’23. Robert A. Phillips, R. Edward Freeman and Andrew C. Wicks (2003), ‘What Stakeholder Theory is Not’24. Timothy J. Rowley and Mihnea Moldoveanu (2003), ‘When Will Stakeholder Groups Act? An Interest-and Identity-based Model of Stakeholder Group Mobilization’25. Robert Phillips (2003), ‘Stakeholder Legitimacy’26. Anant K. Sundaram and Andrew C. Inkpen (2004), ‘The Corporate Objective Revisited’27. R. Edward Freeman, Andrew C. Wicks and Bidhan Parmar (2004), ‘Stakeholder Theory and “The Corporate Objective Revisited”’28. Anant K. Sundaram and Andrew C. Inkpen (2004), ‘Stakeholder Theory and “The Corporate Objective Revisited”: A Reply’29. Cheryl Carleton Asher, James M. Mahoney and Joseph T. Mahoney (2005), ‘Towards a Property Rights Foundation for a Stakeholder Theory of the Firm’30. John F. McVea and R. Edward Freeman (2005), ‘A Names-and-Faces Approach to Stakeholder Management: How Focusing on Stakeholders as Individuals Can Bring Ethics and Entrepreneurial Strategy Together’31. James P. Walsh (2005), ‘Book Review Essay: Taking Stock of Stakeholder Management’32. Thomas M. Jones, Will Felps and Gregory A. Bigley (2007), ‘Ethical Theory and Stakeholder-related Decisions: The Role of Stakeholder Culture’33. Jerry D. Goodstein and Andrew C. Wicks (2007), ‘Corporate and Stakeholder Responsibility: Making Business Ethics a Two-Way Conversation’34. R. Edward Freeman (2007), ‘Managing for Stakeholders’, from ‘The Purpose of the Corporation’35. Mary Sully De Luque, Nathan T. Washburn, David A. Waldman and Robert J. House (2008) ‘Unrequited Profit: How Stakeholder and Economic Values Relate to Subordinates’ Perceptions of Leadership and Firm Performance’Name Index