| Title |
Shake Your Stakeholder: Firms Leading Engagement to Cocreate Sustainable Value |
| ID_Doc |
78724 |
| Authors |
Sulkowski, AJ; Edwards, M; Freeman, RE |
| Title |
Shake Your Stakeholder: Firms Leading Engagement to Cocreate Sustainable Value |
| Year |
2018 |
| Published |
Organization & Environment, 31, 3 |
| DOI |
10.1177/1086026617722129 |
| Abstract |
While most extant scholarship has focused on how stakeholders influence firms, we propose that firms play a critical role in shaking stakeholders. Shaking stakeholders means to proactively initiate cooperation with those affected by a firm to alter awareness, behavior, and networks so as to catalyze change in society and the marketplace to reward cocreated innovations in core operations of the firm that improve social and environmental impacts. Two previously underappreciated aspects of stakeholder relations are highlighted. First, the firm can be the entity that leads engagement that shakes stakeholders out of complacency. Second, firms can catalyze collaborative relationships to cocreate sustainable value that is shared with stakeholders. We offer several cases to illustrate this strategy. While stakeholder shaking may be useful in any business environment, global ecological crises, societal problems, and governance failures heighten the need for firms to take action to bring about profound and systemic changes. |
| Author Keywords |
sustainability; sustainability management; stakeholder theory; stakeholder engagement; stakeholders; sustainable value; systemic change; sustainable business |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000443294500003 |
| WoS Category |
Environmental Studies; Management |
| Research Area |
Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Business & Economics |
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