What is Stakeholder

An individual or entity involved or potentially impacted by a certain phenomenon. Learn more in: A Novel Approach to Studying Cultural Landscapes at the Watershed Level

Person, group or organization (or categories) that are interested in the system or have other related problems. Examples of stakeholders: customers, clients, project manager, system architect, the end user, developer, designer, staff, etc. Stakeholder interests impose a number of non-functional requirements (constraints) on the key characteristics of the system, which is also referred to as a system. Examples qualities: performance, fault tolerance, cost, etc. Learn more in: Development of Model and Software for Tracking Head Avatars in E-Learning Systems

Anyone who has interest and/or investment in the school’s well-being. Their support is typically is in the form of time or money. Learn more in: The Power of Educational Leadership in Rural, Impoverished Areas

Any person, organization, social group, or society at large that has a stake (vital interest) in the business, which can include ownership and property interests, legal interests and obligations, and moral rights. Learn more in: Value Creation via Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of Emerging Countries

Individuals who have a vested interest in education such as governments, agencies, policy-makers, administrators, faculty, and even students. Learn more in: Academic Misconduct and the Internet

A party who affects, or can be affected by, the company’s actions. Learn more in: Organizational Factors for Implementing E-Democracy in Organizations

A person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business. Stakeholder is a member of a type of organization or system in which as a member or participant seen as having an interest in its success. Learn more in: Current Scenario of Youth Entrepreneurship in India

A person, group, or organization that can affect or be affected by the focal organization’s actions. Some examples of external stakeholders are suppliers, customers, creditors, government agencies, local community. The key internal stakeholders are employees. Learn more in: Teaching Methods and Syllabus Design in Business Strategy Courses

A party that has an interest in an enterprise or project. The primary stakeholders in a corporation are its customers, suppliers, employees and shareholders. Modern theory goes beyond this conventional notion to embrace additional stakeholders such as the community, government and trade associations. Learn more in: Sustainability and Competitive Advantage: A Case of Patagonia's Sustainability-Driven Innovation and Shared Value

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Parents, students, teachers, school administrators, school board members, and anyone else who has a personal stake in a student’s academic success. Learn more in: What Is a Teacherpreneur?

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It is any group or individual who is affected by or can affect the achievement of an organization’s objectives. A stakeholder usually has a stake in the business, therefore, their needs and issues may affect outcomes. Learn more in: The Mythical Decision Maker: Models of Roles in Decision Making

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An individual, a group, an organization, a member, or a system that affects or can be affected by an organization's actions. Learn more in: Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises in Slovenia: Strengths and Weaknesses From an Analysis of the Institutional Framework

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Agricultural, wetland and municipal water users subject to the same regulatory constraints in a given watershed or drainage basin. Learn more in: Basin-Scale, Real-Time Salinity Management Using Telemetered Sensor Networks and Model-Based Salt Assimilative Capacity Forecasts

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Group of people or organizations that a firm has to manage because those groups have a “stake” in the firm’s business. Learn more in: Crisis Communications and Sharing Message Control

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Any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization’s objectives. Learn more in: The Role of Controlling in the Business Environment

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Person or group of people or entity that can affect or be affect by a decision, activity or exit from the project. Learn more in: Model Based on Ontological Engineering as Support for Stakeholder Management

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Engagement: Stakeholder engagement is the process by which a company deals with publics who can be affected by business strategies and tactics, or can influence the implementation of its decision-making process. Stakeholder engagement plays a key role in CSR and CSR communication, and helps attain the triple bottom line. Organisations involve their publics in open dialogue to better understand which social and environmental issues are more important to them to improve decision-making processes. Learn more in: Emerging Trends in Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Social Responsibility Communication

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A party that is either interested in or impacted by an organization and its activities. It complements the concept of shareholder, which comprehends only the financial facet of an organization. This concept was diffused by R. Edward Freeman in his book ‘Strategic management: a stakeholder approach’ of 1984. Learn more in: Exploring Ethics in Innovation: The Case of High-Fructose Corn Syrup

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A stakeholder of a system is a person or an organization that has an (direct or indirect) influence on the requirements of the system. Learn more in: When the Wisdom of Communication is Vital During the Requirements Elicitation Process: Lessons Learnt through Industry Experience

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Any party who is impacted in any way by the function the organisation or business (clients, buyers, employees, associates, etc.). Learn more in: Social Responsibility in Higher Education Institutions: The Example of Mentor Youth Guidance Programme by the University of Nicosia

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A person or organization with a stake in something, especially a business. Learn more in: Process for Maintaining Trust Between CEO of Family Businesses and Partners: The Case of Long-Term Buyer-Supplier Relationships Among Family Businesses

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People or organizations who will be affected by the system and who have a direct or indirect influence on the system requirements. They include end-users of the system, managers and others involved in the organizational processes. Learn more in: Integrating Natural Language Requirements Models with MDA

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Generally, stakeholders are individuals or groups with a claim or an interest in managerial decision making. Stakeholders typically include shareholders, employees, customers, managers, suppliers, financers, communities, citizens, and governments. Learn more in: Can Management Have Multi-Fiduciary Stakeholder Obligations?

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A person, group, or organization that has interest or concern in an organization. Learn more in: New Strategy and Thinking in Global Business System: Creating Value Through Supply Chain Management

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Someone who has an interest or concern in the outcome of a particular endeavor. Learn more in: Early, Often, and Repeat: Assessment and Evaluation Methodology for Ensuring Stakeholder Satisfaction with Information Technology Projects

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All real or legal entities that affect and are affected by an organization. Learn more in: Sustainability Reporting on Labor Practices: An Examination in Turkey

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Any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization's objectives. Learn more in: Soft Skills as a Critical Success Factor in Project Management

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An organization, a person, a community who affects or can be affected by an organization's actions. Learn more in: Use of Social Network for Business in Public Relations

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Any person or group of people that can affect, or is affected by, the activities of an organization, either in a positive or a negative way. Learn more in: Reporting Value Using Social Return on Investment Reports: An Overview and Analysis of Reports in Practice

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A person who has influence over or will be influenced by decisions made for an organization. Learn more in: NAIA to NCAA D-II Sports Transition: A Three-Year University Case Study

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An individual, team, or organization (or classes thereof) with interests in, or concerns relative to, service development, service deployment, or service operation. Learn more in: Service Description Ontologies

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In education, the term stakeholder typically refers to anyone who is invested in the welfare and success of a school and its students, including administrators, teachers, staff members, students, parents, families, community members, local business leaders, and elected officials such as school board members, city councilors, and state representatives. Learn more in: Leadership Model for Supply Chain Management in Business Schools

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Internal and external individual and groups affected by an organization’s decisions and actions. Learn more in: The Social Responsibility of Business Schools

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Are the people who have an interest in a company's or organization's affairs. Learn more in: Tourism on the Azores and the Liberalization of the Air Space: An Analysis of the São Miguel-Based Stakeholders

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It is a person or organization who influences a Web application or who is impacted by that Web application. Learn more in: A Model for Characterizing Web Engineering

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Any party that can be affected, positively or negatively, by a business decision. Learn more in: Business Ethics in the Information Age: The Transformations and Challenges of E-Business

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Any person or entity that has an interest in the success or failure of a program. Learn more in: Teaching MSE Students to Teach: A Design-Based Research Model for Introducing Professional Skills into the Technical Curriculum

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Anyone that has a stake within the organization which can include customers, employees, stockholders, suppliers, and the community. Learn more in: Research on Corporate Codes of Ethics and Its Application to University Honor Codes

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A representative group of people and organizations that share a common interest in the organization. In the FDIC context, stakeholders include clients, employees, vendors, banks, and regulators. Learn more in: The Risk Assessment Enhancement Process at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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Someone who holds the money that is bet by one or more persons and who pays it to the winner of the bet. Learn more in: The Cultural Clash: Traditional Automakers vs. Digital Companies – Can They Work Together? Transformation of Business Culture in the Digital Age

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A person, company, etc., with a concern or (esp. financial) interest in ensuring the success of an organization, business, system, etc. (taken from OED Online: http://dictionary.oed.com/). Learn more in: A Quality Assurance Approach to Healthcare: Implications for Information Systems

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A person or organization having a genuine concern or interest in a certain system or entity. Learn more in: Issues, Claims and Concerns of Different Stakeholders of Healthcare Systems

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A stakeholder is a party that has an interest in a company and can either affect or be affected by the business. Learn more in: A Stakeholder's Analysis of the Effect of Mobile Money in Developing Countries: The Case of Orange Money in Mali

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Stakeholders include people or organizations with a stake in a particular issue or resource. In this article, stakeholders are defined as faculty, staff, and administrators who work in systems of higher education. Learn more in: Accessibility of Technology in Higher Education

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An individual, team, organization, or classes thereof, having an interest in a system. Learn more in: A Tale of Two Agile Requirements Engineering Practices

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Any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization’s objectives. Learn more in: The Role of Internal Controls in Corporate Governance Systems

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An individual or organization with a legitimate interest in a specific activity or project. Learn more in: Setting up a Learning Environment in an Interdisciplinary Professional Collaboration

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In a decision-making process, a stakeholder is one of those involved in the situation as it is analyzed by organizers, and who have an interest which is at that moment in conflict with others. Along the mediation process, the definition of situation can change and some new actors can be involved. Sometimes people are identified as stakeholders, but do not recognize themselves as such and do not wish to participate in common decision making. Learn more in: Data Gathering to Build and Validate Small-Scale Social Models for Simulation

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A person or group having an interest in the outcome that is affected by the operation. Learn more in: The Visualization of a Critical Element in K-20 Learning: Trust from the Learner’s Perspective

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Stakeholders include individuals, groups, and institutions with an interest or concern in an endeavor. Learn more in: Managing Water Resources: Industry Initiative

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One who is involved in or affected by a course of action. Learn more in: Access, Relevance, and Inclusivity: Assessing What Matters Most to Virtual Faculty

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A party that has an interest in a company and can either affect or be affected by the business, like shareholders, employees, customers and suppliers. Learn more in: Ownership and Operating Performance of Spanish Family IPO Firms

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Stakeholders is as an individual, institution or an interest group that is related with the objectives and operations of a company in any way. Stakeholders of a company include the company’s shareholders and its workers; creditors, customers, suppliers, unions various non-governmental organizations, the government and potential investors who may consider to invest in the company. Learn more in: The Role of Institutionalized Corporate Communication Function on Good Governance: An Empirical Analysis on Turkey

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“Anyone who can share information about the system, its implementation constraints or the problem domain, including end users, indirect users, other customer representatives and developers” (Potts et al., 1994). Learn more in: Focused Requirements Engineering Method for Web Application Development

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An integral member of a system or group sharing same values working together. Learn more in: Application of Isenberg Model for Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as a Blueprint for Zimbabwe Socio-Economic Devolution

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People or organization who have an interest in the outcome, for examples, owner, customers, suppliers, or employees. Learn more in: Scenarios for E-Collaboration are Only Part of the Story

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Is a group or group of people who might be affected by the activities of any organizational structure. Learn more in: Instructional Technology Plans for Higher Education Institutions

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all roles which are affected by or have an interest in a socio-technical system Learn more in: Systems Design with the Socio-Technical Walkthrough

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A person or group that has interest in an organization and affected by the organizations actions and policies. Learn more in: International Quality Standards Application to Administrative Processes of Higher Education

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It is formed by the entire group affected by the activity of an organization. Learn more in: Quality Management Principles Application to Higher Educational Institutions

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Agent who represents an interest or a stake in a given community. Learn more in: Beyond Citizen Participation in Planning: Multi-Agent Systems for Complex Decision-Making

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A person or group interested in an organization’s performance, it can include: suppliers, customers, shareholders, employees, government and the community affected by organization’s decisions and actions. Learn more in: Sustainable Procurement to Enhance Organizational Performance in Supply Chain Management: Current Research and Practices

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Any person, organization, social group, or society at large, that has an interest in a company and can either affect or be affected by its business. Learn more in: Climate-Friendly Hotels and the Promotion of Sustainability in Tourist Destinations: A Study in Algarve From Hotel Management Perspectives

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An independent party who may have the ability to impact another party. Learn more in: Information Systems and Small Business

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People who is involved in the development of a product or process and/or who benefit from its implementation. Learn more in: Learning Analytics: A Lever for Professional Development of Teachers?

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An individual or group of individuals with an interest or concern in a business. Learn more in: Workplace Cyberbullying: A Nuanced Definition, Significant Consequences, and Collective Solutions

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Group of people composed by individuals with any interest regarding decision making regarding the HR intervention being evaluated, individuals with influence over decision makers who wanted to consider the formers’ opinions in the evaluation process, and anyone who transmit or receive HR measures (Boudreau, 1996 AU16: The in-text citation "Boudreau, 1996" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ; Edwards & Newman, 1982 ). Learn more in: Utility Analysis of HRM Effectiveness

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A person or organization that can be affected by or can affect a decision or activity of an organization. Learn more in: ICT as a Tool in Industrial Networks for Assessing HSEQ Capabilities in a Collaborative Way

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A person interested or invested in an outcome. Learn more in: Work-Life Synchronicity

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The definition of stakeholder was coined in 1963 by the Stanford Research Institute. It refers to all those individuals (or groups) who have an interest in a company and without whose support the organisation cannot survive. For this reason, this also includes groups which are not linked by an exclusively economic relationship with the organisation. According to Freeman (1984) , stakeholders include all individuals or groups who can substantially affect or are affected by the corporate performance. Learn more in: Extending the Field: An Empirical Research

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Any individual, group or organization that will have an impact on or will be significantly impacted by the quality of the product or service an organization or institution provides. For example, stakeholders in a distance learning program can include: a college dean, department chairperson, instructors, students, the financial aid office, the institution’s registrar, the student services support team and the information technology staff. Each of these individual have a stake in the program and can have a profound or limited impact on the program’s perceived quality. Learn more in: Quality Distance Learning Programs and Processes

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A person such as an employee, customer, citizen, who is involved with an organization, society, etc. and therefore has responsibilities towards it and an interest in its success. Learn more in: Sustainable Entrepreneurial Thinking: Developing Pro-Active, Globally Aware Citizens

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Any part, being an individual, a group or an organization that has an interest in a firm and/or, in some way, either directly or indirectly, either voluntarily or involuntarily, influence its activity. Learn more in: The Value Creation Process in Networked Organizations

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A person or business that has invested money in something (such as a company). Learn more in: The Starbucks Culture: Responsible, Radical Innovation in an Irresponsible, Incremental World

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A person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business. Learn more in: Sustainable Tourism Development in North India: Perception of Tourism Stakeholders

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Interested party of any organization (examples: owners, shareholders, investors, employees, suppliers, customers, unions, business and other associations, community where the company operates, competitors, press, municipalities, government, consumers). Learn more in: Corporate Social Responsibility and Management in a Glocal Context

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In general, stakeholder is a person or organization with a legitimate interest in a given situation, action or enterprise. In the context of this chapter, stakeholder is a person who involved in the business process development at different levels of abstraction, for instance, the business experts, system analysts, IT developers, and so forth. Learn more in: Modeling Process-Driven SOAs: A View-Based Approach

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A person such as an employee, customer, or citizen who is involved with an organization, society, etc., and therefore has responsibilities towards it and an interest in its success. Learn more in: XBRL and Smart Technologies

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Any group or individual who can affect, or is affected by, the achievement of a corporation’s purpose. Learn more in: The Role of Destination Management Organizations in Exploiting Global Opportunities of Tourism Destinations

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A person with an interest or concern in something such as the Reusable Learning Objects being developed. Learn more in: Participatory Approach in Reusable Learning Object (RLO) Development Using ASPIRE Framework: Taylor's University's Experience

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An institution, organization, or group that has some interest in a particular sector. Learn more in: Integrating ICT into Sustainable Local Policies

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An individual or organization who will be impacted by the outcome of the decision making process relevant to the natural resource in question. Learn more in: Collaborative, Stakeholder-Driven Resource Modeling and Management

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All individuals or organizations that can have an effect on the organization, and are directly or indirectly influenced by business processes and activities of an organization. Learn more in: Influence of CSR Activities on Stakeholders in Foreign Markets

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A person who has interest in a particular activity. Learn more in: Challenges of a Case Study

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