Stakeholder Integration: Building Mutually Enforcing Relationships
通过荷兰转基因食品引入的案例，检验了工具性利益相关者理论，发现通过建立与外部各方的相互强化关系，企业能获得组织学习和社会合法性，从而形成竞争优势。
textabstractThis study examines the central contention ofinstrumental stakeholder theory— namely, that firms that breed trust-based, cooperative ties with their stakeholders will have a competitive advantage over firms that do not.Acase study of the introduction ofgenetically modified food products in the Netherlands provided the basis for the empirical analysis. The results support the instrumental stakeholder management thesis, showing that stakeholder integration, through the development ofmutually enforcing relationships with external parties, may result in both organizational learning and societal legitimacy.