Stakeholders Matter

A New Paradigm for Strategy in Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-107-62463-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Business, Value Creation, and Society

The dominant shareholder-value model has led to mismanagement, market failure and a boost to regulation, as spectacularly demonstrated by the events surrounding the recent financial crisis. Stakeholders Matter challenges the basic assumptions of this model, in particular traditional economic views on the theory of the firm and dominant theories of strategic management, and develops a new understanding of value creation away from pure self-interest toward mutuality. This new 'stakeholder paradigm' is based on a network view, whereby mutuality enhances benefits and reduces risks for the firm and its stakeholders. The understanding of mutual value creation is operationalized according to the license to operate, to innovate and to compete. The book develops a vision for a strategy in society in which, rather than the invisible hand of the market, it the visible hands of the firm and the stakeholders that lead to an overall increase in the welfare of society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sachs, Sybille

Rühli, Edwin

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
List of tables
Foreword Edward Freeman
1. Challenges for a new paradigm in strategic management
Part I. Development of the Basic Assumptions of a New Stakeholder Paradigm:
2. The economic paradigm and its basic assumptions
3. Contribution of stakeholder theory to our understanding of the stakeholder paradigm
4. The stakeholder paradigm
Part II. Our Understanding of the Stakeholder Paradigm and its Operationalization:
5. Our understanding of the stakeholder paradigm operationalized in the three licenses
6. License to operate
7. License to innovate
8. License to compete
9. Challenges resulting from a paradigm shift
Appendix
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Rühli, Edwin
Edwin Rühli is Professor Emeritus for Business Administration at the University of Zurich. He is also Senior Advisor at the Institute for Strategic Management: Stakeholder View of the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich. He is the author of the groundbreaking German management book Unternehmungsführung I-III and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of international management, corporate governance, strategic management and stakeholder management.

Sachs, Sybille
Sybille Sachs is Professor and Head of the Institute for Strategic Management: Stakeholder View at the University of Applied Sciences Zurich (HWZ). In addition, she is an affiliate professor of the University of Zurich, where she established the module for Business and Society in 2000. She has published numerous articles and books in the fields of strategic management and stakeholder management and is co-author of the book Redefining the Corporation (2002).