Summer Seminar in Stakeholder Theory

Re-launched in 2022, the Summer Seminar in Stakeholder Theory is an opportunity to join the best junior faculty and PhD students in the world in learning and sharing how to integrate the stakeholder perspective into their research. Through the Seminar’s week of structured dialogs, lectures by leading stakeholder experts, participant paper presentations, individual and team feedback sessions, and structured opportunities to collaborate on papers across disciplines, past seminars have served to create an active, interdisciplinary network of young scholars who’s research leverages stakeholder theory. We hope the activities of the Seminar fully integrate participants into that network of young scholars working in this field, and into the Darden scholarly community, and also give participants connections to leaders in stakeholder theoretical research.

Each successful applicant will bring to the seminar at least one paper-in-progress, wherein they have developed a stakeholder idea within the parameters of their discipline. They will also have the opportunity to develop at least one additional paper while at the Seminar, with input and assistance from Darden faculty and other leaders in stakeholder theoretical approaches.

R. Edward Freeman
University Professor
Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration
Stephen E. Bachand University Professor of Business Admin
Business Administration Distinguished Chair
Senior Fellow, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics
Academic Director, Institute for Business in Society
FreemanE@darden.virginia.edu

Joey Burton
Executive Director
Institute for Business in Society
BurtonJ@darden.virginia.edu

Johanna Kujala
Vice Dean for Research
Professor of Management & Organization
Director, RESPMAN Responsible Management Research Group
johanna.kujala@tuni.fi

Financial support from the Foundation for Economic Education is gratefully acknowledged!

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