Stakeholder Integration

2002/03/01 by Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens, Pursey Heugens, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch +3
Business, Management and Accounting · #Management and Organizational Studies #Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting #Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

paper · doi:10.1177/000765030204100104

Abstract

This study examines the central contention of instrumental stakeholder theory— namely, that firms that breed trust-based, cooperative ties with their stakeholders will have a competitive advantage over firms that do not. Acase study of the introduction ofgenetically modified food products in the Netherlands provided the basis for the empirical analysis. The results support the instrumental stakeholder management thesis, showing that stakeholder integration, through the development ofmutually enforcing relationships with external parties, may result in both organizational learning and societal legitimacy.

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