Stakeholder Management Theory

“Thinking about stakeholders is thinking about business. And thinking about stakeholders is thinking about ethics. It comes to the same thing.”¹

                     -Edward Freeman, Professor at University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Listen to Hannah Cumming explain how we use R. Edward Freeman’s Stakeholder Management Theory to assess our companies:

References

¹“Freeman, Edward. "Stakeholder Theory: Stakeholders are People." Interview by Institute for Corporate Ethics. Accessed on June 1, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=106&v=keED9l3zVi8.

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