Stakeholder Engagement: Past, Present, and Future
Tampere University · Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration
Abstract
Stakeholder engagement has grown into a widely used yet often unclear construct in business and society research. The literature lacks a unified understanding of the essentials of stakeholder engagement, and the fragmented use of the stakeholder engagement construct challenges its development and legitimacy. The purpose of this article is to clarify the construct of stakeholder engagement to unfold the full potential of stakeholder engagement research. We conduct a literature review on 90 articles in leading academic journals focusing on stakeholder engagement in the business and society, management and strategy, and environmental management and environmental policy literatures. We present a descriptive…
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- FWCI
- 64.46
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- 100%
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- 226
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5Topics & keywords
- Stakeholder engagement
- Stakeholder
- Construct (python library)
- Stakeholder analysis
- Legitimacy
- Stakeholder management
- Public engagement
- Stakeholder theory