Stakeholder Analysis

Reading: Kenneth Goodpaster 1991, Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis



Questions

A. Introduction
1. Does anyone boycott any companies e.g. Nestle, Coca Cola? If so why?
2. What is a stockholder in a company?
3. Vote: Do businesses managers have a responsibility to anyone but their stockholders?

B. Understanding
4. What is a 'stakeholder'?
5. What is 'stakeholder analysis'? Why is it morally neutral (according to Goodpaster)?
6. What is 'stakeholder synthesis'?
7. What is 'strategic stakeholder synthesis'?
8. What does 'fiduciary' mean?
9. What is 'multi-fiduciary stakeholder synthesis'?
10. What is the 'stakeholder paradox'?
11. What is Goodman's thesis?

C. Discussion

12. Do you think there really is a 'stakeholder paradox'?
13. What about the laws that govern our markets and corporations? Do they affect the responsibilities that business managers have, and the expectations of the citizens?
14. Is Goodman's suggestion practical? Do you think that we can reasonably expect business managers to follow it?
15. If you owned a company, how would you run it with respect to the stakeholders?





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