Stakeholder Engagement in and Beyond the Organization

David Foster and Jan Jonker

Chapter 8 in The Challenge of Organizing and Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility, 2006, pp 115-130 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The involvement of stakeholders in organizations has been the subject of considerable research and debate since Freeman wrote his seminal work in 1984. Building on the work of contingency theorists, engagement with stakeholders has come to be seen as a mechanism by which the organization can learn to adapt to what is happening in the world around it. This adaptation is often viewed in an adversarial way as the organization tries to steer its way towards its own ends. In this regard stakeholders have generally been perceived as a negative force that can disrupt the operations and goals of the organization. This perspective reflects a particular organismic view of an organization as an isolated, self-contained entity that interacts with its (hostile) environment through the auspice of various (organismic) stakeholder groups in order to achieve its legitimate goals.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Stakeholder Theory; Corporate Social Performance; Stakeholder Engagement; Total Quality Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230626355_8

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