'I used to be an employee but now I am a stakeholder': Implications of labelling employees as stakeholders

Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 186-200

  Greenwood, Michelle ^a   Anderson, Eve ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Employees; Ethics; Pluralism; Stakeholder identification; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949104568     PISSN: 10384111     EISSN: 17447941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1038411109105441     Document Type: Article

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