 Prioritization of organizational stakeholders: A managerial decision-making perspectiveAlex Chernyi and Juha Uotila Journal of Business Research, 2024, vol. 185, issue C Abstract: This study investigates the decision-making logics that managers use in their day-to-day stakeholder prioritization decisions. Our empirical data consists of semi-structured interviews of senior managers with stakeholder management responsibilities in different organizational contexts. We find that managers rely on three distinct logics – introspective, relational, and attributive – in justifying their stakeholder prioritization decisions. Introspective logic is the main determinant of the long-term stakeholder prioritization strategy, which managers adjust case-by-case based on relational and attributive logics. We further find that managers in mature companies generally draw on a more comprehensive set of factors in their stakeholder prioritization decisions than those in startups. These findings contribute to the literature by providing important nuance to our understanding of how managers interpret stakeholder salience and demonstrating that internal organizational factors, rather than stakeholder attributes, are frequently the primary driver of stakeholder prioritization decisions. Keywords: Stakeholder management; Stakeholders; Stakeholder theory; Decision making (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:185:y:2024:i:c:s0148296324003862 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114882 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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