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Chapter 2: Stakeholders
and the Corporate Mission
Text by
Charles W. L. Hill
Gareth R. Jones

Multimedia Slides by
Milton M. Pressley
Univ. of New Orleans

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Figure 2.1: Stakeholders and the


Enterprise
External Stakeholders The Firm
• Customers Contributors
• Suppliers
• Governments
• Unions Inducements
• Local Communities
• General Public

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Figure 2.1: Stakeholders and the


Enterprise
External Stakeholders The Firm
• Customers Contributors
• Suppliers
• Governments
• Unions Inducements
• Local Communities
• General Public
Contributors Inducements

Internal Stakeholders
• Stockholders
• Employees
• Managers
• Board Members
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Stakeholder Impact Analysis


• Identify Stakeholders
• Identify Stakeholders’ Interests and Concerns
• Identify Resulting Claims Stakeholders Are
Likely to Make
• Identify Most Important
Stakeholders (From
Organization's
Perspective)
• Identify the Resulting
Strategic Challenges

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Mission Statement
• Defined
• Built Around Three Main Elements:
– Overall “Vision” or “Mission”
– Key Philosophical Values Management
Is Committed to and That Influence the
Decisions They Make
– Statement of Key Goals Necessary to
Attain the Mission That Are Consistent
With the Values Above

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The Mission Statement


(Continued)
• Vision (or Mission)
– Strategic Intent
– Customer Orientation
and Business Definition
# 1
– Consumer-oriented
vs. Product-oriented

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Figure 2.3: Abell’s Framework


for Defining the Business
Who is being What is being
satisfied? satisfied?

Customer Customer
Groups Definition Needs
of Business

How are
customer needs
satisfied?
Distinctive
Source: Derek F. Abell, Determining the
Business: the Starting Point of Strategic Competencies
Planning (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-
Hall) 1980. p. 17.
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Strategy and Ethics


• Purpose of Business Ethics
– NOT to teach right & wrong
– IS to provide tools
• Thinking Through Ethical Problems
→ Corporate Social Responsibility

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Figure 2.6: Model of Ethical


Decision Making
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4

Evaluate Decision Evaluate Establish Engage


From Ethical Decision Moral In
Standpoint. From Ethical Intent Ethical
Identify Affected Standpoint. Behavior
Stakeholders. Moral
Are Stakeholder Principles
Rights Violated

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