What We Talk About When We Talk About Stakeholders

2021 ◽  
pp. 000765032110530
Author(s):  
Michael E. Johnson-Cramer ◽  
Robert A. Phillips ◽  
Hussein Fadlallah ◽  
Shawn L. Berman ◽  
Heather Elms
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
60Th Anniversary ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Creation

Will stakeholder theory continue to transform how we think about business and society? On the occasion of this journal’s 60th anniversary, this review article examines the journal’s role in shaping stakeholder theory to date and suggests that it still has transformative potential. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of co-citations in the literature from 1984 to 2020. Reporting these results, we examine the field’s evolving structure. Contextualized theoretically as an accomplishment of institutional work—the creation of a meaningful and innovative field ideology—this structure is remarkable for how it integrates ethical and behavioral arguments, invites engagement from adjacent domains, and arrives at important insights for business and society. We advance a research agenda consistent with this larger institutional project.

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

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.

scholarly journals Mapping and Clustering Analysis on Environmental, Social and Governance Field a Bibliometric Analysis Using Scopus

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7304
Author(s):  
Shang Gao ◽  
Fanchen Meng ◽  
Zhouyang Gu ◽  
Zhiyuan Liu ◽  
Muhammad Farrukh
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Clustering Analysis ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Scopus Database

Academic interest in ESG has grown significantly in recent years. Nevertheless, bibliometric and visualization research on this topic is still insufficient. This study aims to conduct publication metrics on the literature connected with ESG and attempt to give a research agenda for future research. In this study, we used data from the Scopus database. Various bibliometric techniques, such as bibliographic coupling and co-occurrence analysis, were combined with assorted themes to present an overview. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study that analyses the bibliographic data on ESG fields; this study is a unique contribution to the literature. This study also provides an overview of the trends and trajectories with a visual and schematic frame for the research of this topic. This may help researchers understand the current trends and future research directions, and enable future authors to conduct their studies more effectively.

scholarly journals Trading in influence: a research agenda for New Zealand?

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Gluck ◽  
Michael Macaulay
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations

In November 2015 the Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill was passed by Parliament. An omnibus bill, it amended numerous different acts in relation to (among other things) money laundering, organised crime, corruption and bribery offences. One of its stated aims was to bring New Zealand legislation up to date to enable New Zealand to finally ratify the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), which it did in December that year. The merits and potential demerits of the bill have been discussed previously (Macaulay and Gregory, 2015), but one thing that requires further attention is the creation of a new offence of ‘trading in influence’.

‘Sustainable Security’

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-128
Author(s):  
Fiona de Londras
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Community ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
National Institutions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Dominant Discourses

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 commits the international community to promoting ‘just, peaceful and inclusive societies’ with a clear focus on security. Central to the goal, is the creation of ‘strong’ national institutions. Rather than taking this to licence the creation of repressive institutions, this chapter argues that SDG 16 invites a radical re-imagining of dominant discourses on security. This would see interpersonal insecurity as a core concern that must be addressed together with geopolitical insecurity, and recognize that strong institutions are those that are robust, well-resourced, responsive, and well-governed. In the absence of a shift towards sustainability in our pursuit of security, the transformative potential of Sustainable Development Goal 16 will be difficult to realize; indeed, the goal may instead be used to legitimate oppressive, repressive, and often fundamentally undemocratic measures and institutions said to be needed to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime.

scholarly journals Spiritual Leadership: Meaning in the Sustainable Workplace

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Samul
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Leadership Theory ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Spiritual Leadership Theory

The topic of leadership enjoys unflagging interest among management theorists and practitioners. One of the trends that arose in the 1990s is spiritual leadership. Some authors have pointed out the importance of spiritual leadership is to create a sustainable workplace for employees. Thus, there is a need to present the achievements of academic knowledge in this topic. The aim of the paper is to synthesize research in the emerging spiritual leadership theory and its importance for the creation of a sustainable workplace. This study explores the concept of spiritual leadership and proposes a conceptual model of spiritual leadership within the context of the sustainability of the workplace. The study is based on a literature review and bibliometric analysis of 373 publications from the Scopus database, spanning the period from 1980 to 2019. The findings obtained indicate that the development of the spiritual leadership theory is relevant and applicable to the creation and maintenance of a sustainable workplace for employees.

The Creativity of Cities: A Review Article

1961 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia L. Thrupp
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Creation

Cities have led high civilization for so long that one can scarcely imagine one without the other. Yet it is not easy to delimit their place in the creation of values and the organizing power to implement them that constitute a developing civilization. They can be described in innumerable ways, for as is true also of small towns and villages each city has a unique personality. The existing literature leans either to extreme particularity of detail or to an unconvincing generality. The two articles that follow are the first of a series in which common general questions will be brought to bear on the rise of different types of city in different societies and on the conditions under which they play particular creative and organizing roles. Since three recent books have attempted large-scale comparison along these lines our own series had best open with an attempt to review their contributions.

New Directions in Strategic Management and Business Ethics

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Elms ◽  
Stephen Brammer ◽  
Jared D. Harris ◽  
Robert A. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Managerial Discretion ◽  
Behavioral Strategy ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Strategy As Practice ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT:This essay attempts to provide a useful research agenda for researchers in both strategic management and business ethics. We motivate this agenda by suggesting that the two fields started with similar interests, diverged, and are beginning to converge again. We then identify several streams that hold particular promise for developing our understanding of the relationship between strategy and ethics: stakeholder theory, managerial discretion, behavioral strategy, strategy as practice, and environmental sustainability.

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