Stakeholder: Essentially Contested or Just Confused?

Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of who and What Really Counts

Ronald K. Mitchell, Bradley R. Agle, Donna J. Wood · Academy of Management Review · 1997 · 9.5K citations

Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management +11

The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications

Thomas Donaldson, Lee E. Preston · Academy of Management Review · 1995 · 9.2K citations

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A Stakeholder Framework for Analyzing and Evaluating Corporate Social Performance

Max Clarkson · Academy of Management Review · 1995 · 6.1K citations

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INSTRUMENTAL STAKEHOLDER THEORY: A SYNTHESIS OF ETHICS AND ECONOMICS

Thomas M. Jones · Academy of Management Review · 1995 · 3.1K citations

Business, Strategic Management, Strategy +11

The Politics of Stakeholder Theory: Some Future Directions

R. Edward Freeman · Business Ethics Quarterly · 1994 · 2.7K citations

Business, Business Administration, Business Ethics +11