Stakeholder Theory Perspectives

This chapter foregrounds stakeholder theory, with various perspectives considered to explain how businesses mobilize and respond to various interest groups. In this sense the social license is the set of demands and expectations held by local stakeholders and broader society about how a business should operate. Coverage includes the process of gaining and maintaining a social license and the involvement of business stakeholders, before exploring specific stakeholder influences, such as the impact of community religion, workplace management immorality, the magnitude of offender recidivism, the effect of white-collar support groups, and the pursuit of former Chief Executives.