Stakeholder Theory by Freeman Assignment
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ACADEMIC & BUSINESS RESEARCH2Learning Log TasksUnit 3While conducting a literature search, the following articles were identified and rated according to the journal in which they are published in and ranked in the Association of BusinessSchools Guide (ABS list). The following are the best three articles are picked and placed as they appear in the order of importance in the ABS list. 1.Deng, X., Kang, J.K. and Low, B.S., 2013. Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder value maximization: Evidence from mergers. Journal of Financial Economics, 110(1), pp.87-109.The article by Deng and colleagues was chosen because among the selected items, and it was rated the best with ISSN number of 0304-405X, SJR number 2 and SNIP 2. The document has received a total citation of about 249. 2.Russo, A. and Perrini, F., 2010. Investigating stakeholder theory and social capital: CSR in large firms and SMEs. Journal of Business Ethics, 91(2), pp.207-221.The article by Russo and Perrini as having SJR and SNIP numbers of 16 and 15 respectively and ISSN of 0167-4544. 3.Jensen, M.C., 2010. Value maximization, stakeholder theory, and the corporate objective function. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 22(1), pp.32-42.This article by Jensen is marked as 1078-1196 and it appears below the other two articles selected in the article To begin the search, Google Scholar was selected as a suitable search engine owing to its massive database and short response time upon research request. Based on the objective of the study which was to conduct a literature search for relevant published papers on the topic on
ACADEMIC & BUSINESS RESEARCH3stakeholder theory a stipulated by Freeman, the search was limited to the specifics of the subject.Practically, this was to minimize the time taken to deliberate what was the driving force behind the substantial and compelling will to online literary journals. The final selection of the articles was obtained after a rigorous literature analysis. Using various keywords such as stakeholder theory, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder theory of the modern corporation, numerous articles popped up. Google Scholar provided approximately 57,000 searches within 0.04 seconds when the keyword was stakeholder theory, 16, 700 results in 0.03 seconds with stakeholder theory and corporate social responsibility as a keyword and finally 17,100 outcomes with stakeholder theory of the modern corporation as keywords. This particular stage was considered vital in the literature search process as it allowed me to have a panoramic perspective of the available materials that relate to the subject area of interest.Well, to narrow down the search, I provided specific publication dates to range between 2013 and 2017 to ensure that the literature gathered are of recent updates. Taking into cognizance the developmental nature of research and studies, I considered reviewing recent publications as fundamental to understanding and even have a feel of the new developments in the stakeholder theory. It also allowed proper integration and incorporation of the theory in the modern corporate environment.After a random selection of same sample papers that meet the specified criterion. With strict adherence to my established guidelines, I sampled approximately 163 articles which met the publication dates range as earlier defined. Out of the total sampled articles, 148 of them were excluded after reviewing their titles and abstracts. The remaining 15 articles were further subjected to critical examination against the inclusion criterion according to which stakeholder
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