Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach
"R. Edward Freeman's book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, is THE seminal book in the field. It is the authoritative source that created the field and has had immeasurable impact on scholars, executives, and students. Ed Freeman is clearly the Father of Stakeholder Theory / Management / Approach."Archie B. Carroll, Director, Nonprofit Program & Professor Emeritus,  Terry College of Business, University of Georgia"Freeman's Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach helped to define and shape our understanding of how good management practice really is based on relationships - relationships with the stakeholders who both comprise and affect or are affected by the business. This seminal book's message that these relationships are fundamental to success has become part of the DNA of progressive and socially sustainable companies, and has influenced new generations of scholars and managers."Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy, Professor of Management,  Boston College