But a stakeholder’s relationship with a company can be more complex than that of a shareholder. Stakeholders can be company employees, suppliers, vendors, customers and even the local community.

Stakeholders include shareholders, employees, customers, and communities that interact with a company. Conflicts between stakeholders, such as cost vs. safety, direct corporate decisions ...

Today we’re checking in on what happened after almost 200 high profile CEOs signed a statement in 2019 promising to serve stakeholders like employees and consumers along with their shareholders.

Power players like the Business Roundtable; the World Economic Forum; and Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, have embraced the phrase stakeholder capitalism but not ...