Sometimes the solution to a modern business quandary is a century-old management theory. When it comes to stakeholders, that solution is called integrative unity. In 1984, Edward Freeman, an American ...

Most entrepreneurs have a healthy appetite for profit. But keeping that appetite at bay can prove challenging. The trouble with an appetite for profit is that it's never satisfied. Too often, hungry ...

Editor’s note: The Kenan Institute of Free Enterprise takes another look at stakeholder capitalism. CHAPEL HILL – In our recent Insight, we asked whether the benchmark set by the ideal shareholder ...

The public forms opinions from many sources, thus attracting and retaining stakeholders’ attention is challenging. Effective communication programmes understand stakeholder attitudes, allowing for the ...

Long ago Voltaire noted that the Holy Roman Empire, decaying into ruin in the middle of Europe, was neither Holy nor Roman, nor an Empire. Most of my generation ran across the line, if they did, in a ...

Engaging with stakeholders can be one of the most rewarding parts of academic life, but also one of the least well understood. In our work on research impact, we’ve found that too often, engagement is ...

Stakeholders are different groups of people that have an interest in the operations of a business. Shareholders are a prominent stakeholder group for a publicly-owned company. However, customers, ...

Reforming corporate governance is quickly ceasing to be a polite debate among specialists and turning into a hot topic among leading presidential candidates. And for good reason. As Thomas Piketty’s ...

Two terms in the finance industry commonly believed to be synonymous are “stakeholder” and “shareholder.” The similarity between the two words is understandable — both refer to people or groups who ...