Abstract'Stakeholding'is a term laden with manymeanings. In this paper we attempt to put
someorder on the discourse by confining attentionto the corporation. We assess the …

All directors are faced with real, or imagined, conflicts of interest or competing demands for
time and resources, between shareholders and stakeholders. This has always been the …

In this article a critique of stakeholder theory is presented. The analysis highlights several
concerns regarding the scientific rigor of this body of knowledge revealing the assumptions …

The paper has three main objectives. The first aim is to examine and clarify the burgeoning
stakeholder literature that currently seeks to inform management practice, corporate …

The current debate and theorising on corporate governance has been polarised between a
shareholder perspective and a stakeholder perspective. While advocates and supporters of …

We develop a stakeholder theory of corporate governance grounded in classical property
rights theory, adopting the view that governance should help free individuals to maximize …

Existing criticisms of the stakeholder concept of corporate governance, cen tering on the
threat to private-property rights that it poses and the distor tion of traditional notions of …

This paper explores the development and articulation of the agency and stakeholder
theories of the firm and their corresponding logics of shareholder wealth maximisation and …

Traditional definitions of corporate governance are narrow, focusing on legal relations
between managers and shareholders. More recent definitions extend the boundaries of …

Those who use stakeholder theory as a reference are both underlining the correlation
between facts and a certain conceptualisation thereof (Section 1) and trying to make the …