Stakeholder Strategy
When a departing family CEO actively mentors a younger family leader, that leader is more likely to keep the business financially successful, especially if non-family advisors also weigh in.
When companies engage in harmful actions like polluting the environment or violating human rights, it’s known as corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). Such CSI incidents tend to happen more frequently in certain regions or countries as compared to others.
September 19, 2025 from 8:00 – 9:00 am CDT.
Technology startups still lack diversity across race and gender. A new study published in the Strategic Management Journal highlights an important way to support black women in founding their own startups—working as startup employees.
Social networks provide entrepreneurs with invaluable resources, from finding funding and building a customer base to sourcing suppliers and specialists. The right social network not only reduces start-up risk, but…
Strategic Management of Fault Lines, Contradictions, and Divergences
Drawing inspiration from the original Toronto Conference on stakeholder theory and the SMS Annual Conference’s return to a location so strongly associated with a critical period in the development of stakeholder theory, this conference extension at the University of Toronto will focus on revisiting essential historical foundations of stakeholder theory and contemplate its future.