RT Article
T1 How Do European SME Owner–Managers Make Sense of ‘Stakeholder Management’?: Insights from a Cross-National Study
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 109
IS 1
SP 39
OP 51
A1 Schlierer, Hans-Jörg
A1 Werner, Andrea
A1 Signori, Silvana
A1 Garriga, Elisabeth
A1 von Weltzien Hoivik, Heidi
A1 Van Rossem, Annick
A1 Fassin, Yves
A2 Werner, Andrea
A2 Signori, Silvana
A2 Garriga, Elisabeth
A2 von Weltzien Hoivik, Heidi
A2 Van Rossem, Annick
A2 Fassin, Yves
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785645366
AB The vast majority of empirical research on stakeholder management has traditionally focused on multinational corporations. Only in recent years, scholars have begun to pay attention to the stakeholder management concept in relation to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The few existing studies in this area, however, discuss SMEs as a context free category or remain focused on single country analysis. This cross-national empirical research investigates SME owner–managers’ perceptions of stakeholder management in six European countries. The comparative analysis is followed by a discussion of how institutional, cultural and linguistic contexts can influence owner–managers’ sensemaking of stakeholder management. Our study questions the universality of specific management terms and proposes that more attention should be paid to the institutional, cultural and linguistic environments that shape economic activity in different parts of Europe.
K1 Stakeholder Management
K1 Small Business
K1 small- and medium-sized enterprises
K1 Sensemaking
K1 National business environments
K1 Language
K1 Comparative Research
DO 10.1007/s10551-012-1378-3