Stakeholder Theory: Reviewing a Theory That Moves Us

By André O. Laplume, Karan Sonpar, Reginald A. Litz. 2008

1,235 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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In Marketing

1. Ann Buchholtz
2. D. Bosse
3. Colina Frisch
4. Christopher Marquis
5. K. Bondy
6. Richard S. Coughlan
7. Dirk Matten
8. Markus Huppenbauer

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. A. Carroll
2. J. Moon
3. Dirk Matten
4. Yuan Lu
5. Mia Raynard
6. Ann Buchholtz
7. D. Bosse
8. Colina Frisch

In Strategy and Management

1. A. Carroll
2. J. Moon
3. Mia Raynard
4. Yuan Lu
5. Dirk Matten
6. Chung-Ming Lau
7. Q. Liang
8. Christopher Marquis

Citations in the corpus

• Supply chain finance: From traditional to supply chain credit rating (2019, background): “Stakeholder theory fits well with a supply chain perspective, since benefits such as increased legitimacy, environmental stability, trust, and cooperation (Jones, 1995; Heugens et al., 2002; Meyer and Rowan, 1977; Suchman, 1995; Laplume et al., 2008) are shared among the interconnected companies on ”
• Strategic Cognition and Issue Salience: Toward an Explanation of Firm Responsiveness to Stakeholder Concerns (2013, background): “In pursuing these objectives, we contribute to the literature by developing a strategic cognition perspective to understand how managers process and respond to the ever-expanding range of issues championed by stakeholders (Laplume et al., 2008).”
• Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives on the CSR Construct’s Development and Future (2021, background): “In response, the distinction between explicit CSR and implicit CSR as posited by Matten and Moon (2008), the notion of political CSR (pCSR) (Scherer & Palazzo, 2011), and the application of CSR in developing countries (Jamali et al., 2017), were presented.”
• Exploring corporate social responsibility and financial performance through stakeholder theory in the tourism industries (2017, methodology): “…artefacts used, for instance, empirical methods, CSR and CFP dimensions, data sets, multi-industry/crosssectional perspective and organisational culture, but also to the lack of a solid theoretical foundation (Coles et al., 2013; Endrikat et al., 2014; Lee, 2008; Orlitzky et al., 2003).”
• Stakeholder Relationship Bonds (2016, positive): “Considering the emphasis placed on stakeholder relationships in many recent works, however, the causes and effects of decisions made when managing stakeholder relationships are not well understood (Freeman et al., 2010; Jones, 2011; Laplume et al., 2008).”
• An Institution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Multi-National Corporations (MNCs): Form and Implications (2012, background): “Where historically companies were happy to define their responsibility to society as largely philanthropic (e.g. Davis, 1960; Sethi, 1975; Brammer and Millington, 2003), and based on stakeholder issues (Mitchell et al., 1997; Phillips, 1997; Laplume et al., 2008) their definition was changing.”