concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: stakeholder theory

corporate social responsibility
type: Concept
narrower: stakeholder theory

cybernetic and systems orientations
type: Concept
narrower: stakeholder theory

group and organizational concepts
type: Concept
narrower: stakeholder theory

organizational theory
type: Concept
narrower: stakeholder theory

stakeholder theory
type: Concept
broader: strategic management
broader: organizational theory
broader: group and organizational concepts
broader: cybernetic and systems orientations
broader: corporate social responsibility
definition: Stakeholder theory has its roots in business and organization studies and is an umbrella term describing attempts to identify, explain, and prescribe an organization's relationship and responsibility to other actors. In the conventional model of the corporation, managers are seen as primarily beholden to the interests of their stockholders, or those with an economic share in the corporation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Stakeholder Theory]

strategic management
type: Concept
narrower: stakeholder theory