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01-03-2015

Scandinavian Stakeholder Thinking: Seminal Offerings from the Late Juha Näsi

Author: Robert Strand

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In June 1994, a symposium dedicated to outlining the state of the art of stakeholder thinking was hosted by the Department of Management and Economics at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. The major planning efforts were made by Juha Näsi of the University of Jyväskylä and Steven N. Brenner from Portland State University, Oregon, USA. The result was an international conference of the highest caliber. …

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Metadata
Title
Scandinavian Stakeholder Thinking: Seminal Offerings from the Late Juha Näsi
Author
Robert Strand
Publication date
01-03-2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Journal of Business Ethics / Issue 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1793-0

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