1 June, 2020
Covid-19 pandemic ‘has accelerated shift to stakeholderism’
There have been many claims that stakeholder capitalism is the future for business, particularly since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. But one group says it now has evidence that stakeholder ...
18 May, 2020
Business Roundtable members ‘should become benefit corporations’
Academics have called on member of the Business Roundtable—whose luminaries include Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Larry Fink of BlackRock—adopt the legal status of benefit corporations to ensure their ...
21 April, 2020
Government bail-outs indicate ‘shift in mindset’ towards societal purpose
Denmark’s recent statements on bail-outs for companies illustrates a trend seen widely at the moment: if companies want state aid they have to do right by the societies in which they do business. ...
20 April, 2020
Will Covid-19 accelerate the shift towards stakeholder governance?
Prior to the last financial crisis, the shareholder primacy model of corporate governance was unchallenged. Companies were run solely to the benefit of shareholders, with share price performance being...
15 April, 2020
What every business can do to help during this crisis
The 2020 Edelman Trust Barome...
23 March, 2020
Stakeholder accountability at risk from the Covid-19 crisis
It’s becoming clear that businesses responding to the Covid-19 crisis are putting their reputations on the line. As the pandemic increases in intensity and governments shut down whole countries to c...
28 February, 2020
Company purpose and profit are not mutually exclusive
The past few years have seen a vivid international debate about the purpose of companies and the purport of their directors’ duties towards various stakeholder groups, pursued against the backdrop o...
25 February, 2020
Bank of England economist Andy Haldane enters stakeholder debate
When a central banker talks about an issue, it has for all intents and purposes hit the mainstream. This week, the Bank of England’s chief economist Andy Haldane began to talk about the need to shif...
12 February, 2020
Stakeholder debate should not be used to weaken shareholder rights
Relations between investors and boards have reached a low ebb. That was the verdict recently of Andy Griffiths, executive director of the
7 February, 2020
