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Stakeholder Engagement: Practicing the Ideas of Stakeholder Theory

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Stakeholder Engagement: Clinical Research Cases

Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics ((IBET,volume 46))

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Stakeholder theory has become one of the major ways to conceptualize and comprehend business organizations in the fields of strategy and management.

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  1. 1.

    To provide the reader a good start on stakeholder theory, we refer to Freeman et al. (2007, 2010), Friedman and Miles (2006), Phillips (2003) and Bonnafous-Boucher and Rendtorff (2016) for recent overviews and syntheses of the burgeoning literature.

  2. 2.

    This chapter is a reprint of “Supply Chains in the Apparel Industry: Do Transnational Initiatives for Social Sustainability Improve Workers’ Situation?”, published in International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning (IJMKL; 2015 Vol. 4, Issue 1, p. 27–40).

  3. 3.

    This chapter is a reprint of “Innovation in Multistakeholder Settings: The Case of a Wicked Issue in Health Care”, published in Journal of Business Ethics, DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2589-1. We offer our gratitude to Springer for granting this reprint.

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  1. Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, 100 Darden Boulevard, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA

    R. Edward Freeman

  2. Faculty of Management, University of Tampere, Pyynikintie 4, 33230, Tampere, Finland

    Johanna Kujala

  3. Institute for Strategic Management: Stakeholder View, HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich, Lagerstrasse 5, 8021, Zurich, Switzerland

    Sybille Sachs & Christian Stutz

  4. Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich, Lagerstrasse 5, 8021, Zurich, Switzerland

    Sybille Sachs

  5. Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Christian Stutz

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    R. Edward Freeman

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    Johanna Kujala

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    Sybille Sachs

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Freeman, R.E., Kujala, J., Sachs, S., Stutz, C. (2017). Stakeholder Engagement: Practicing the Ideas of Stakeholder Theory. In: Freeman, R., Kujala, J., Sachs, S. (eds) Stakeholder Engagement: Clinical Research Cases. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 46. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62785-4_1

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