What is Stakeholder Influence?
– We are influenced by many stakeholders? What is a stakeholder if not a web of managing and organizing influences? … the concept of “stakeholder” denotes in the first place the management and employees of the firm; in the second place it denotes those whom it buys its services and goods; in the third place it denotes its owners, the shareholders; in the fourth place it denotes the unions; in the fifth place it denotes the lawmaking institutions and those that regulate it in the service of the public. Finally it also denotes nature, the voiceless mammals, the whole organic and inorganic world of used and still unused resources, to which a voice must be ascribed. Finally it denotes the future (Kirkeby, 2000: 58). As a postmodernist I very much appreciate Kirkeby’s attention to the voiceless world of plants and animals. Kirkeby’s approach to stakeholders also gives attention to power, how a web of stakeholders network to influence one another and the events that interconnect them from
