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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1. Kodak Stakeholder Impact Analysis Shareholders The shareholders of Kodak want a good return on their investment. Kodak has been exhausting resources through acquisitions and joint ventures with other companies‚ which leads to decreased shareholder profits. Kodak lost over $1.7 billion in already manufactured cameras and a patent suit where Polaroid sued them for violations on seven of their patents which also led to decreased shareholder profits. Competition was increasing in all areas and
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A critical appraisal of stakeholder analysis: Defining the stakeholder: The development sector is awash with participatory methodology‚ in part as a result of and a continued commitment to the Paris Declaration‚ but equally as a means to lend credence and legitimacy to development activities and interventions. One such methodology is the stakeholder analysis which is‚ agreeably‚ rather a nice tool and very much in keeping with current development themes of local empowerment and participation.
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marketing mix to make it beneficial for service sector companies like Antone Displays. These includes‚ People These people are the main face of the company that represent their services and work to their business associates and consumers. It is important for company to have presentable and professional employees that clearly convey their plans and message to their client. Moreover‚ in case of Antone Displays it is observed that the company have competent employees that help the company to maintain
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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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responsibility of business — to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game‚ which is to say‚ engages in open and free competition‚ without deception or fraud.” Friedman did not support firms acting illegally‚ unethically‚ or immorally; he believed the goal of firms was to maximize shareholder wealth within the legal boundaries of society. Government and citizens should assume their rightful roles by setting and maintaining
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industrial park on 400-acres of land just outside of San Jose‚ CA 2. Who are the relevant market and non-market stakeholders in this situation? a. Market Stake holders: Cisco employees‚ suppliers‚ customers‚ retailers‚ creditors‚ community b. Non Market stake holders: community‚ activist‚ general public‚ environmentalist 3. What are their interests? Please indicate if each stakeholder is in favor or opposed to the Coyote Valley development project‚ and why? a. Cisco employees – Favor. The plan
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Stakeholders Key stakeholders can either have a positive or negative effect towards a business‚ or who are important to an organisation. Examples of key stakeholders may be funders‚ government‚ head of businesses and other community figures. Customers: The customers are external stakeholders and they want the most they can get out of the business (in this case - school they have chosen to go to). As a business the customers want to see improvements in the organisation; for example improvements
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Executive summary We decide to do this project because we want to know how the Assumption university’s students perceive about the Asean Economic Community (AEC) which is expected to come in year 2015 and also how the factors‚ quality of university‚ tuition fees‚ social factor and government policy relate to the perceiving in AEC. We found that the quality of university‚ tuition fees‚ social factor and government policy influence the perceiving value on AEC education industry‚ moreover‚ we also
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Explain the points of view of 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
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