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 …

Scaling has recently found its way into the academic discourse. However, the term has been
used inconsistently and mixed up with other terms such as growth. To overcome these …

Business models are developed and managed to create value. While most business model
frameworks envision value creation as a uni-directional flow between the focal business and …

A powerful new stakeholder theory (NST) of strategic management is emerging. The theory,
which is yet incomplete, offers novel and precise tools for understanding stakeholder …

A number of tensions have been suggested between stakeholder theory and strategic
management (SM). Following a brief review of the histories of stakeholder theory and …

Instrumental stakeholder theory considers the performance consequences for firms of highly
ethical relationships with stakeholders, characterized by high levels of trust, cooperation …

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 …

Capitalism works when actors are motivated to engage in joint value creation. Stakeholder
theorists have long argued that this is most likely when firms “manage for stakeholders,” but …

This paper aims to investigate how stakeholder groups engaged by the company contribute
to the value flow of business models for sustainability. The research aims to expand the …

The “business case for sustainability” is a notion often referenced in the corporate
sustainability and corporate social responsibility literature. Whereas some see sustainability …