Toward a theory of stakeholder identification and salience: Defining the principle of who and what really counts

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mitchell, RK; Agle, BR; Wood, DJ
• 署名单位: University of Victoria; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/259247
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 853-886
• 关键词: CORPORATE SOCIAL PERFORMANCE

摘要

Stakeholder theory hers been a: popular heuristic for describing the management environment for years, but it has not attained full theoretical status. Our aim in this article is to contribute to a theory of stakeholder identification and salience based on stakeholders possessing one or more of three relationship attributes: power, legitimacy, and urgency. By combining these attributes, we generate a: typology of stakeholders, propositions concerning their salience to managers of the firm and research and management implications.