Firm Responses to Secondary Stakeholder Action

Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 765-782

Posted: 7 Oct 2010

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Charles E. Eesley

Stanford University - Management Science & Engineering

Michael Lenox

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Date Written: 2006

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the conditions under which secondary stakeholder groups are likely to elicit positive firm responses. To this end, we build upon and advance Mitchell, Agle, and Wood’s (1997) stakeholder saliency and identification framework by defining saliency in terms of actions, not perceptions, and by proposing that power, legitimacy, and urgency arise out of the nature of stakeholder - request - firm triplets. To test this framework, we build a unique dataset of over 600 secondary stakeholder actions within the United States, all concerning environmental issues over the period 1971-2003.

Keywords: stakeholder theory, environmental management, self-regulation

Suggested Citation

Eesley, Charles E. and Lenox, Michael, Firm Responses to Secondary Stakeholder Action (2006). Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 765-782, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1687948

Charles E. Eesley

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Michael Lenox (Contact Author)

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business ( email )

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United States

HOME PAGE: http://faculty.darden.virginia.edu/LenoxM/index.htm

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