Volume 11, 2000
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting
Tara J. Radin
Pages 495-511
A Legal Foundation For Stakeholder Theory
While law and stakeholder theory have been traditionally viewed as lying at odds, the purpose of this paper is to show how this is not the necessarily the case. In fact, principles of law—specifically torts, property, and contract law—actually contribute toward the foundation of stakeholder theory.