Encyclopedia of Stakeholder Management

Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management series

编辑by Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Professor of Philosophy of Management and Ethics, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark and Maria Bonnafous-Boucher, Director of European and International Affairs towards High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (Hcéres), Paris, France

This Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the most important concepts of stakeholder theory and management in business and public administration. It identifies that stakeholders are essential for value-creation in democratic societies.

‘A century has passed since Cassirer first called for all of Western philosophy – largely undisturbed from Euclid until Einstein's Theory of Relativity – to be tested anew. Few concepts have contributed so practically and effectively to a complex systems understanding of organisations and society, than stakeholder theory. Such an outcome might easily be congruent with strands of Ed Freeman’s openly pragmatist approach. In this encyclopedic, revised companion volume and through 81 expert, scholarly entries, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff and Maria Bonnafous-Boucher marshal a collective tour de force. This book presents an effective deconstruction of the manifold, complex and inseparable stakeholder themes that overwrite defunct, neo-classical logic, agency theory and shareholder primacy. Compelling and comprehensive stakeholder reference material for scholars, students and professionals.’
– David Bevan, St Martin's Institute of Higher Education, Malta