Research Tidbits

Here’s our latest pick of interesting articles covering stakeholder trust. Is fair treatment enough? Fairness and stakeholder behaviour  Fairness and justice are core issues in stakeholder theory. Although such considerations receive more attention in the ‘normative’ branch of the stakeholder literature, they have critical implications for ‘instrumental’ stakeholder theory as well. In research in the instrumental vein, although the position has seldom been articulated in significant detail, a stakeholder’s inclination to take action against the [...]

A selection of interesting articles we found recently considering what pushes stakeholders to take action. What mobilises stakeholders to take action against the firm? Although the possibility that a firm’s stakeholders may take damaging measures against it in response to its activities has been an underlying assumption of stakeholder theory from inception, the conditions that predispose stakeholders to act against firms remain largely unexplored in the literature. Based on work in equity theory, expectancy theory, [...]