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The Stakeholder Theory of the Firm Three Core Arguments for their positions : 1.Descriptive 2.Instrumental. 3.Normative.
The term stakeholder refers to persons and groups that affect, or are affected by, an organizations decisions, policies, and operations. The word stake , in this context, means an interest in or claim on a business enterprise. Market stakeholders are those that engage in economic transactions with the company as it carries out its primary purpose of providing society with goods and services. ( For this reason, market stkeholders are also sometimes called primary stakeholders.) Nonmarket stakeholders, by contrast, are people and groups who although they do not engage in direct economic exchange with the firm are nonetheless affected by or can affect its action ( also called secondary stakeholders ) Of further note, some individuals ar groups may play
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Stakeholder Engagement
Several experts have observed a shift from an inactive to a reactive to a proactive to an interactive relation. 1. Inactive Engagement 2. Reactive Engagement 3. Proactive Engagement 4. Interactive Engagement. Stakeholder dialogue
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