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Refining The Firm-Stakeholder Engagement Model: An Expanded Theory Of Salience And Firms' Responses To Stakeholder Influence, Elise Perrault
Refining The Firm-Stakeholder Engagement Model: An Expanded Theory Of Salience And Firms' Responses To Stakeholder Influence, Elise Perrault
2012
This dissertation revisits the theory of stakeholder salience set forth by Mitchell, Agle and Wood (1997), exploring the ways in which the salience model might be expanded to more fully capture the elements to which managers pay attention, as well as the accuracy of the attributes that define stakeholders' relationship with the firm. Two main questions are investigated: (1) what stakeholder elements affect salience? (2) Which of these stakeholder elements and attributes are most relevant to the explanation of salience? In a first tense, the nuances of the concept of stakeholder salience (Eesley & Lenox, 2006; Mitchell, Agle, & Wood, …