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Stakeholder Engagement in and Beyond the Organization

In: The Challenge of Organizing and Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility

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  • David Foster
  • Jan Jonker

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The involvement of stakeholders in organizations has been the subject of considerable research and debate since Freeman wrote his seminal work in 1984. Building on the work of contingency theorists, engagement with stakeholders has come to be seen as a mechanism by which the organization can learn to adapt to what is happening in the world around it. This adaptation is often viewed in an adversarial way as the organization tries to steer its way towards its own ends. In this regard stakeholders have generally been perceived as a negative force that can disrupt the operations and goals of the organization. This perspective reflects a particular organismic view of an organization as an isolated, self-contained entity that interacts with its (hostile) environment through the auspice of various (organismic) stakeholder groups in order to achieve its legitimate goals.

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  • David Foster & Jan Jonker, 2006. "Stakeholder Engagement in and Beyond the Organization," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jan Jonker & Marco Witte (ed.), The Challenge of Organizing and Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility, chapter 8, pages 115-130, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62635-5_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230626355_8
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