Stakeholder Theory at the Crossroads

The stakeholder perspective has provided a rich forum for a variety of debates at the intersection of business and society. Scholars gathered for two consecutive years, first in North America, and then in Europe, to discuss the major issues surrounding what has come to be known as stakeholder theory, to attempt to find common ground, and to uncover areas in need of further inquiry. Those meetings led to a list of “tensions” and a call for papers for this special issue to help address them. In this article, we introduce the resulting articles and provide some brief commentary on their importance. We end with a few of our own observations about the stakeholder perspective and stakeholder research.

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Rethinking Work: Pathways and Practices in Business and Society. Introduction to the Special Issue.

STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI ◽

10.3280/so2018-002001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 9-27

Author(s):

Luigi Moschera ◽

Mario Pezzillo Iacono ◽

Giovanna Lo Nigro ◽

Laura Lucia Parolin

Keyword(s):

Business And Society ◽

Special Issue

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Magic and Politics

Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions ◽

10.1525/nr.2020.23.4.5 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 5-14

Author(s):

Sabina Magliocco

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

North America ◽

Human Behavior ◽

Presidential Election ◽

The United States ◽

Right Wing ◽

Special Issue ◽

Far Right ◽

Cultural Expression ◽

Spirit World

This essay introduces a special issue of Nova Religio on magic and politics in the United States in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. The articles in this issue address a gap in the literature examining intersections of religion, magic, and politics in contemporary North America. They approach political magic as an essentially religious phenomenon, in that it deals with the spirit world and attempts to motivate human behavior through the use of symbols. Covering a range of practices from the far right to the far left, the articles argue against prevailing scholarly treatments of the use of esoteric technologies as a predominantly right-wing phenomenon, showing how they have also been operationalized by the left in recent history. They showcase the creativity of magic as a form of human cultural expression, and demonstrate how magic coexists with rationality in contemporary western settings.

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Human–Animal Relations in Business and Society: Advancing the Feminist Interpretation of Stakeholder Theory

Journal of Business Ethics ◽

10.1007/s10551-021-04840-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Linda Tallberg ◽

José-Carlos García-Rosell ◽

Minni Haanpää

Keyword(s):

Stakeholder Theory ◽

Business And Society ◽

Feminist Interpretation ◽

Nonhuman Animals ◽

Human Animal ◽

Care Relationships ◽

Human Actors ◽

The Impact ◽

Animal Care ◽

Scholarly Attention

AbstractStakeholder theory has largely been anthropocentric in its focus on human actors and interests, failing to recognise the impact of nonhumans in business and organisations. This leads to an incomplete understanding of organisational contexts that include key relationships with nonhuman animals. In addition, the limited scholarly attention paid to nonhumans as stakeholders has mostly been conceptual to date. Therefore, we develop a stakeholder theory with animals illustrated through two ethnographic case studies: an animal shelter and Nordic husky businesses. We focus our feminist reading of Driscoll and Starik’s (J Bus Ethics 49:55–73, 2004) stakeholder attributes for nonhumans and extend this to include affective salience built on embodied affectivity and knowledge, memories, action and care. Findings reveal that nonhuman animals are important actors in practice, affecting organisational operations through human–animal care relationships. In addition to confirming animals are stakeholders, we further contribute to stakeholder theory by offering ways to better listen to nontraditional actors.

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Framing Forest Carbon for Policy in Temperate North America: Baby Steps toward National Carbon Goals

Forests ◽

10.3390/f12081033 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (8) ◽

pp. 1033

Author(s):

Lloyd C. Irland ◽

John Hagan

Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

North America ◽

North American ◽

American Options ◽

Forest Carbon ◽

Special Issue

Why have a special issue on North American options for reducing national CO2 footprints through forest management [...]

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Introduction to the special issue: parallel manipulators.

Robotica ◽

10.1017/s0263574797000428 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 353-353

Author(s):

François Pierrot

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Parallel Manipulators ◽

Parallel Robots ◽

Parallel Mechanisms ◽

Special Issue ◽

Industrial Areas

It has been a pleasure for me to arrange this Special Issue of Robotica on Parallel Robots which provides 9 papers from authors from Asia, Oceania, North America and Europe; worldwide research on this topic is proof of the growing interest of both the scientific and the industrial areas of parallel mechanisms. I truly believe that the main reason for this enthusiasm is that parallel mechanisms research extends from theoretical mathematics and kinematics to applied robotics, and even beyond, creating new technological challenges.

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Special Issue in the recent advancement in North America on the field of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry ◽

10.1007/s10973-014-3779-2 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 116 (3) ◽

pp. 1101-1103

Author(s):

Riko Ozao ◽

Wei-Ping Pan

Keyword(s):

Thermal Analysis ◽

North America ◽

Special Issue ◽

Recent Advancement ◽

And Calorimetry

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CPI Welcomes Carol Lee's Special Issue

Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry ◽

10.18733/c39h4j ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ali Abdi ◽

Ali Abdi

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Natural Disasters ◽

South Asia ◽

Special Issue ◽

The South ◽

Nation States

CPI Welcomes Carol Lee’s Illustrated Anthology of Poetry:No ReturnCarol Lee’s Special Issue is well timed given the magnitude of the recent natural disasters experienced in several tropical and subtropical parts of North America, as well as in south Asia, and the toll on human lives as millions are forced to relocate or flee their homes and seek asylum elsewhere because of wars, persecution, and discrimination. With clarity and precision, Lee’s Special Issue, unapologetically specifically questions, responses by leaders and citizens in northern nation-states to impacts of man-made and natural disasters and tragedies, especially in the south.

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Funding, financing and governing urban infrastructures

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098018824014 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 56 (7) ◽

pp. 1291-1303 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Peter O’Brien ◽

Phil O’Neill ◽

Andy Pike

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Urban Development ◽

Policy Making ◽

Urban Infrastructure ◽

Future Research ◽

Special Issue ◽

Infrastructure Provision ◽

Infrastructure Policy ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Empirical Material

This Special Issue aims to further understanding and explanation of the funding, financing and governing of urban infrastructure amidst its engagements with contemporary financialisation. Drawing upon empirical material from international cases from Europe, North America, Africa and Asia, it identifies critical issues to advance work in this area. These themes concern: the impacts of financialisation upon shifting the definitions and conceptualisations of urban infrastructure; the worth of adopting more actor-oriented and grounded approaches to financialisation; the importance of affording greater recognition to national and local states as the objects and agents of financialising relations, processes and practices; the substance and ramifications of the emergent informalisation of infrastructure policy-making and governance; and, the implications of financialisation for the evolving and uneven landscapes of urban infrastructure provision. The arguments are, first, that how infrastructure is funded, financed and governed is integral to explaining socially and spatially uneven infrastructural provision and its urban development ramifications; and second, the engagements of urban infrastructure with contemporary financialisation have become central in such accounts. Future research avenues are identified. These comprise: identifying exactly how revenues are generated from infrastructure assets; specifying the relations of financialisation with other processes such as ‘assetisation’, ‘marketisation’ and privatisation; extending the geographical and comparative reach of current studies; elaborating the spaces of regulation in negotiating and accommodating infrastructure financialisation; and, scrutinising the roles of decentralised powers and resources in financialising urban infrastructure and exploring its alternatives.

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