R. Edward Freeman is Olsson Professor of Business Administration and Co-Director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I. The Genesis of Stakeholder Theory: 1. The problems that stakeholder theory tries to solve; 2. The development of stakeholder theory: a brief history; 3. Stakeholder theory, pragmatism, and method; Part II. Stakeholder Theory and the Traditional Disciplines of Business: 4. Stakeholder theory and strategic management; 5. Stakeholder theory in finance, accounting, management and marketing; 6. Stakeholder theory in law, health care, public policy and environment; Part III. Stakeholder Theory, Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): 7. Stakeholder theory and business ethics; 8. Stakeholder theory and corporate social responsibility (CSR); Part IV. Stakeholder Theory: Some Future Possibilities: 9. Stakeholder theory and capitalism; 10. Questions on the horizon; Bibliography; Index.