Stakeholder engagement has grown into a widely used yet often unclear construct in
business and society research. The literature lacks a unified understanding of the essentials …

Although there is wide recognition of the importance of entrepreneurship for generating
societal impact, entrepreneurial activities alone rarely achieve a positive impact without the …

This article explains how viewing resource-based theory within Brandenburger and Stuart's
value creation framework adds clarity to the theory as a whole and to its essential elements …

Ecosystems—communities of interdependent yet hierarchically independent heterogeneous
participants who collectively generate an ecosystem value proposition—often emerge …

We reflect on the past, present, and future of stakeholder theory, focusing on its link to
strategy and organization scholarship. Stakeholder theory was originally conceived as a …

In the face of intractable societal grand challenges, organizations increasingly resort to
responsible innovation–that is, they pledge to create value for multiple stakeholders through …

The new stakeholder theory (NST) grapples with two canonical questions: Which
stakeholders are enfranchised in organizations? How is the value created through …

We conduct a theory-guided review of the literatures on public–private partnerships and
grand challenges (GCs). We adopt an organization design approach to review and identify …

Patent management tasks involve many stakeholders from diverse disciplines and
hierarchies as well as from inside and outside the organization. By drawing on the …

Open innovation is now a widely used concept in academia, industry, and policy-making.
According to the recent report “The Open Innovation Barometer”, released by the Economist …