BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Stakeholder
- a person or organization with a vested interest in the successful operation of a company or organization. A stakeholder may be an employee, customer, supplier, partner, or even the local community within which an organization operates.
Wiktionary Definition for: Stakeholder
- A person or organisation with a legitimate interest in a given situation, action or enterprise.
Additional Resources
- Shareholder v. Stakeholder: Whose Company Is It?
- Yesterday we asked whether your business has good karma. At the heart of the question is the shareholders v. stakeholders debate. Or to put it another way: for whose benefit does your company exist? The shareholders alone, or a more expansive group including employees and customers? Some...
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Stakeholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance And Firm Value
- The authors have considered the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and suppliers as well as shareholders compared to shareholder-oriented firms. Societies with stakeholder-oriented firms have higher prices, lower output, and can have greater firm value than shareholder-oriented societies. In some circumstances, firms may voluntarily...
- White papers 2006-05-09
- Creating sustainable directions: evolving stakeholder approach in seven multinationals *.(Diageo PLC, Heineken N.V., ING Bank N.V., Koninklijke Ahold N.V., Numico, Shell Chemicals U.K. Ltd., Unilever Group)
- This paper examines the importance of a collaborative stakeholder approach to business strategies and corporate, social and ecological responsibility CSR. It summarises the findings of an investigation into the stakeholder approach in seven multina This paper examines the importance of a collaborative stakeholder approach to...
- Research articles 2003-06-22
- News: Fidelity's group stakeholder product boosts DC market.
- The stakeholder pensions market was given a boost this week after the world's largest fund manager announced it was broadening its defined contribution DC pension offering with a group stakeholder product. The stakeholder pensions market was given a boost this week after the...
- Research articles 2004-11-29
- British Bank Pulls Out of Company Stakeholder Pensions.
- By Toby Walne, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 4--Abbey National is withdrawing from company stakeholder pensions after disastrous sales since their launch a year ago. The bank will continue to service 2,000 stakeholder plans already sold...
- Research articles 2002-08-04
- Stakeholder Reporting Process - A Link To Balance The Balanced Scorecard
- In strategic management one of the vexed issues is how to include stakeholder input into strategy to enable more effective and accountable implementation. Implementation tools such as the Balanced Scorecard appear to be popular with organisations with widespread applications yet most stakeholders do not feature as an important balance. Should...
- White papers 2004-11-03
- The Armed Forces appoints Scottish Widows as Stakeholder and Additional Voluntary Contribution (AVC) provider.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-15 August 2001-UK Government: The Armed Forces appoints Scottish Widows as Stakeholder and Additional Voluntary Contribution AVC provider C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15082001 The Ministry of Defence has conducted a rigorous tender process and selected Scottish Widows as...
- Research articles 2001-08-15
- Abbey to pull out of stakeholder market.
- Abbey National is the latest provider of company stakeholder pensions taking steps to withdraw from the market after admitting that take-up of the low-cost schemes had been substantially less than expected.The 2,500 stakeholder plans that Abbey National has already sold to companies will continue to be...
- Research articles 2002-08-05
- Abbey to avoid new stakeholder business.(Brief Article)
- ABBEY National has stopped its salesforce from seeking new group stakeholder business. The provider, which runs 2500 stakeholder plans, is to discourage new business after acknowledging take-up of schemes has been less than expected. From 1 September, it will no longer...
- Research articles 2002-08-12
- Walker Information Stakeholder Database Now Available on Internet
- INDIANAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--July 22, 1997--Walker Information's Customer Stakeholder Database, one of the world's largest repositories of stakeholder opinion, is now accessible on the Internet at Walker's web site, www.walkernet.com . Walker Information is a global resource for stakeholder measurement and management. While protecting customer confidentiality,...
- Research articles 1997-07-22
- The Stakeholder Pension Lottery: An Analysis of the Default Funds in UK Stakeholder Pension Schemes
- The paper analyzes the range of default funds offered by UK stakeholder pension schemes, against the background of research that shows the majority of pension scheme members passively accept the default arrangements offered by the scheme sponsor. It finds the default funds vary substantially in their strategic asset allocation and...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Stakeholder Theory and Balanced Scorecard to Improve IS Strategy Development in Public Sector
- Implementation of the Balanced ScoreCard BSC in public sector organizations is more likely to succeed if the organizations already possess clear conceptions of vision, strategy and outcomes. This is a paradox, as the BSC holds the promise of providing apt techniques for supporting organizations in the strategy developing process. The...
- White papers 2005-06-13
- OSHA Schedules Stakeholder Meetings on Hearing Conservation for Construction Workers
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is inviting the public to participate in informal stakeholder meetings next month for discussions on reducing noise exposures and hearing loss of workers in the constWASHINGTON, Feb. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is...
- Research articles 2004-02-24
- News: NatWest and RSA quit stakeholder.(Royal Scottish Assurance)(Brief Article)
- The Royal Scottish Assurance and NatWest Life, part of the RBS Group, have pulled out of the stakeholder market following a low take-up of the product since its launch in 2001. The Royal Scottish Assurance and NatWest Life, part of the RBS Group, have...
- Research articles 2004-02-16
- Stakeholder Strength: PR Survival Strategies in the Internet Age
- With the advent of the Internet, stakeholder communication behavior has changed and will continue to change in the future. Stakeholders can now communicate with each other about an organization in a very public way. The public relations function will in most cases be the department dealing with these unplanned messages....
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Corporate Social Performance: A Stakeholder Approach
- Stuart Cooper. Corporate Social Performance: A Stakeholder Approach. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004, 212 pages, $84.95 hardcover.Roughly 20 years ago, Freeman (1984) popularized the concept of stakeholder management, expanding the ways in which we think about corporate strategy formulation and implementation. Since that time, the emphasis placed on stakeholders-initially conceptualized as...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Mutuals attack CTF stakeholder ruling.(child trust funds)
- BUILDING societies want the government to back down over planned stakeholder rules for child trust funds. Mutual societies said they believed they would be hindered by Inland Revenue recommendations that child trust fund providers offered a stocks and shares-based product. The...
- Research articles 2004-04-07
- Mutuals attack CTF stakeholder ruling.(child trust funds)
- BUILDING societies want the government to back down over planned stakeholder rules for child trust funds. Mutual societies said they believed they would be hindered by Inland Revenue recommendations that child trust fund providers offered a stocks and shares-based product. The...
- Research articles 2004-02-19
- The ABC of stakeholder pensions
- Do high charges on personal pensions leave you cold? Or do you want to top up your company scheme? Amanda Jarvis considers the virtues of stakeholder pensions Stakeholder pensions will be available from 6 April 2001. They are low-cost personal pensions designed to supplement the state pension for people...
- Research articles 2001-03-01
- Beyond compliance - Update - white paper "A New Focus on Governance: Managing Stakeholder Expectations to Sustain Business Value"
- IN A RECENTLY RELEASED KPMG white paper, "A New Focus on Governance: Managing Stakeholder Expectations to Sustain Business Value," the accounting giant suggests boards of directors add value to their organizations by exceeding stakeholder expectations. After briefly exploring the current governance environment, the report concludes that directors need to look...
- Research articles 2002-12-01
