Chapter 2

Stakeholders and
the Corporate Mission

Strategic Charles W. L. Hill

Management Gareth R. Jones

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An Integrated Approach Charlie Cook
 Stakeholders and the Enterprise
Contributions

Inducements

Contributions Inducements

FIGURE 2.1

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Stakeholder Impact Analysis

1. Identify stakeholders
2. Identify stakeholders’ interests and
concerns
3. Identify resulting claims stakeholders are
likely to make
4. Identify most important stakeholders (from
the organization's perspective)
5. Identify the resulting strategic challenges

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Mission Statement

A formal commitment to stakeholders that the

firm’s strategy incorporates and recognizes
their claims on the organization.
Mission statement elements:
 A declaration of the overall vision, or mission.
 A summation of managerial philosophical values.
 An articulation of key organizational goals.

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Vision, or Mission
A statement of purpose (strategic intent)
committing the organization to ambitious
overarching (stretch) goals.
 Provides a sense of direction and purpose.
 Drives strategic decision making
and resource allocations.
 Forces the seeking of
significant performance
improvements to
attain goals.

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Customer Orientation and Business Definition

Abell’s Framework
for Defining the
Business
 Consumer-oriented
versus
Product-oriented
business definition

FIGURE 2.2

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 Values

Johnson & Johnson’s credo

sets its responsibilities to:
1. J&J product users.
2. J&J employees.
3. Communities in which J&J
employees live and work.
4. J&J stockholders.

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Goals
Good goal characteristics:
 Precise and measurable
 Address important issues
 Challenging but realistic
 Time period specified

The overriding organizational goal:

 Maximizing shareholder returns.

Firms need both short and long-term goals.

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The Corporate Governance Problem

On-the-job consumption
 Elaborate and expensive
perks for top management.
Excessive pay not linked
to performance
 Down markets and upward spirals of executive pay.

Empire building
 Buying additional businesses that increase the size of
the company without increasing shareholder wealth.

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 The Tradeoff Between Profitability
and Growth Rate

FIGURE 2.4

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Corporate Governance Mechanisms

Board of directors
Stock-based compensation
Corporate takeovers
 Takeover constraints
 Corporate raiders
 Greenmail

Leveraged buyouts
 Managers offer to exchange equity for debt in a
leveraged buyout (purchase of the company).
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Strategy and Ethics

The purpose of business ethics

 To provide the tools for dealing with moral complexity
in strategic decisions.
Shaping the organization’s ethical climate
 Emphasizing the importance
of strong ethical values by top
management.
 Including the values in the
organization’s mission statement.

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 Thinking Through Ethical Problems

A model of ethical decision making

FIGURE 2.5

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Corporate Social Responsibility

The sense of obligation to include social

criteria in strategic decision making.
Pro:
 It is the right way for a firm to behave.
 Economic actions have social consequences.
 Social behavior affects the firm’s market value.

Con:
 A firm’s primary obligation is to maximize profits for
its stakeholders in open competition.

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