Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society

Volume 16, 2005

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting

Stakeholder Salience and Corporate Performance
A Small Business Study

This paper reports the results of a study essentially replicating that of Agle, Mitchell, and Sonnenfeld (1999) concerning stakeholder salience, values, and organizational performance, but surveying small business managers instead of large-firm CEOs. The results in some ways parallel the findings of Agle et al. and in some ways diverge.