How can stakeholder theory contribute to opportunity theory? We suggest that affords appropriate theoretical lenses for grounding the opportunity-actualization perspective more firmly within real-world constraints of business venturing. Actualization departs from a strong focus on entrepreneurial agency conceptualize how pre-existing environmental conditions determine what action achieve. expla...

Stakeholder theory offers a strong starting point for this analysis. Work following Freeman’s first conceptualization (Freeman, 1984) has focused on the definition and prioritization of actors related to the firm in a variety of contexts. Mitchell (1997) offered a chronology of stakeholder definitions, ranging from actors necessary for the survival of the firm, to actors in the environment whic...

Use of information and communication technology (ICT) in healthcare has increased substantially over the past decades. Implementation of ICT in municipal health services (eHealth) involves a variety of stakeholders, and may lead to changes in the roles of providers and patients. Coordination, communication, early identification and involvement of key stakeholders in eHealth projects have been h...

We study the relationship between the types of issuer and the governance codes contents in the neo-institutional social theory perspective, using a global sample of over 70 national governance codes. We hypothesize that the code recommendations are influenced by the nature of isomorphic pressure to embrace new social practices, exerted by the different types of issuer. The findings show that co...

This study investigates how an Ivy League school's football season ticket holders demonstrate their attachment and allegiance to the intercollegiate athletic product through the application of stakeholder theory as a marketing-based construct. This paper merges the tenets of stakeholder theory and the theoretical constructs of attachment and allegiance initially investigated in Covell (2004) to...

This study seeks to explain how stakeholders’ dynamics influence Information and Communication Technology (ICT) strategic projects implementation in Saudi Arabian public hospitals. Stakeholder theory, mainly the identification framework of Mitchell, Agle, and Wood, is used to identify stakeholders’ saliency throughout the project events. However, stakeholder theory is static and do not help in ...