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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Stakeholders and You
Stakeholders and You
In Marcia Miceli's preceding essay, we learned about the pressures exerted by stakeholders on schools of business. In considering stakeholders, we usually focus on how the organization can best respond to their concerns. The stakeholders are classified as being part of the external environment, and the organization is seen as responding to these pressures from the external environment, whether proactively or reactively. The goal, of course, is organization effectiveness, or—ultimately—survival. In this chapter I will focus specifically on three specific stakeholder groups and their effects over time on schools: faculty, students, and publics.
Faculty, Students, and Strategic Contingencies
What mechanisms do business schools—or any organizations, for that matter—use to respond to stakeholder pressures in the external environment? To approach this question ...
