Stakeholder Theory

Maria Bonnafous-Boucher, PhD, HDR Paris-Dauphine University, is currently Deputy Counsellor at the Embassy of France in Turkey. Previously Director of Research at Novancia Business School, Paris, and Vice-President in charge of Research at EBEN France, she is the author of several books and articles on stakeholder theory and governance, including Stakeholder Theory , Palgrave, 2005; Décider avec les parties prenantes (“Making decisions with stakeholders”), La Découverte, 2006;  “Towards a stakeholder society: stakeholder theory vs the theory of civil society in European Management Review, special issue, “Re-thinking the firm in a post-crisis world”, eds., Freeman E. and Zollo, M., 2010; and La théorie des parties prenantes (“Stakeholder Theory”), La Découverte, 2014. In 2016, she was awarded the FORDE Prize (France, Rennes School of Law and Business Studies) for the body of her work on stakeholder theory.< Born in 1965, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, PhD and dr. scient. adm. is Associate Professor of Responsibility, Ethics and Legitimacy of Corporations at Roskilde University, Denmark. Rendtorff has a research background in ethics, business ethics, bioethics, information ethics, political theory and the philosophy of law. He has written a substantial number of articles and twelve books on existentialism and hermeneutics, French philosophy, ethics, bioethics and business ethics, as well as the philosophy of law, and has either co-authored or edited  a dozen more. Notable amongst them are Basic Ethical Principles in European Bioethics and Biolaw, Copenhagen and Barcelona, 2000 (with Peter Kemp); and Responsibility, Ethics and Legitimacy of Corporations, Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen 2009. More recently, he published French Philosophy and Social Theory. A Perspective for Ethics and Philosophy of Management, Ethical Economy Series, Springer 2014. Rendtorff is also one of the editors of The Balanced Company. Organizing for the 21st Century, Gower, London 2013. He is Head of the Scandinavian Chapter of EBEN (European Business Ethics Network).