ETHICS WITHOUT STAKEHOLDERS Joseph Heath Abstract: One of the most influential ideas in the field of business ethics has been the suggestion that ethical conduct in a business context should be analyzed in terms of a set of fiduciary obligations toward various "stakeholder" groups. Moral problems‚ according to this view‚ involve reconciling such obligations in cases where stakeholder groups have conflicting interests. The question posed in this paper is whether the stakeholder paradigm represents
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Darden Graduate School of Business Administration University of Virginia Working Paper No. 01-02 A Stakeholder Approach to Strategic Management R. Edward Freeman John McVea This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection at: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=263511 A Stakeholder Approach to Strategic Management R. Edward Freeman And John McVea The Darden School University of Virginia Forthcoming in M. Hitt
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Identify Blessed Farm’s stakeholders. b) What is motivating them to become involved with Blessed Farm? c) Evaluate each proposal identifying: i. Blessed Farm’s relative strengths and weaknesses in respect of each proposal; ii. The information required before such a proposal can be undertaken; iii. The sources of that information; iv. Which Stakeholders are likely to be for or against the proposal and their relative power to obstruct its implementation; v. The changes which have to be made
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Stakeholders Stakeholders can be defined as “anyone who has an interest in what an organisation does” (Wright‚ 2001). These stakeholders can include governments‚ investors‚ political groups‚ customers‚ communities‚ employees and suppliers. It is important to keep stakeholders satisfied and gain their support in order to run a successful event. This will be further developed in this essay‚ with further recommendations in distinguishing and managing stakeholders. Stakeholder management is the process
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Assignment # 1 Stakeholder analysis on the British Petroleum oil spill disaster Stakeholder: UK and USA Government The British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico flowed unabated for three months in 2010. It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. This event affected individuals and groups‚ know as stakeholders‚ in different ways according to the impact that the catastrophe meant to their situation. The stakeholders treated in this case are the U
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different stakeholders seeking to influence the strategic aims and objectives of these two contrasting organisations. I have chosen SportsDirect (PLC) and Lush Cosmetics (Ltd) Sports Direct’s stakeholders’ Point of View Banks – Banks have an interest in the money the business makes as if the business have taken out any loans‚ the bank wants to make sure that they get their money back. Shareholders – Just like banks‚ they have an interest in the amount of profit the business makes. This is because
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Stakeholders can be defined as all entities that are impacted through a business running its operations and conducting other activities related to its existence. The impact can be direct in the case of the business’s customers and suppliers or indirect in the case of the communities in which the business chooses to place its locations. Businesses must consider the needs and expectations of its stakeholders‚ though it need not consider them to be of equal importance. Certain stakeholders such as owners
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When talking about healthcare reform‚ one must always think about the stakeholders. Stakeholders are “people and organizations that have a stake (interest) in what a healthcare organization does and that could affect the healthcare organization” (Olden‚ 2011). There are many different stakeholders in our case study but we will focus on the main ones. In Massachusetts‚ the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act had a considerable impact on hospitals and the health care system. Most community health
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Case 1: “Monsanto Attempts to Balance Stakeholder Interests” Dr. Obradovich Monsanto is one of the world’s largest industrial agriculture businesses‚ especially focusing on genetically modified products. The company specializes in biotechnology‚ modifying crops and genetic manipulation of organisms. These modifications help farmers by using less land and creating more crops‚ which equals more profits. Genertitically modified (GM) food also helps create solutions to world hunger
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Administration and Stakeholders factor Administration and Stakeholders factor A current study shown by the Health Resources and Services Administration (2004) confirmed that a variety of factors affect the demand and supply of direct-care in health care. These factors can be divided into two groups: policy controllers which they have important impact and exogenous factors‚ which policy makers have little or no control. Policy controls are recognized as; employee’s pay‚ behavior of employees‚ unionization
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