Towards and Ethical Theory of Stakeholders Identification and Salience: Responsibility, Intentionality and Prevision, Power and Dependency, Urgency and Vulnerability

Abstract

We focus in this work in a critical analysis of the theory of identification and salience of stakeholders. We argue that instrumental and descriptive theories of stakeholders have easier that managers focus their attention on results and not in prevention of consequences being them intentional or not. We propose that legitimation, power and urgency may be jointed with an identification of dependent groups given special relevance to the more vulnerable groups.