R. Edward Freeman
| R. Edward Freeman | |
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| Role: | Professor |
| Location: | Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Affiliation: | University of Virginia Darden School of Business |
| Education: | •Duke University •Washington University |
| Website: | Official website |
R. Edward Freeman is a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. [1] He has written or edited over 180 works about stakeholder management, business strategy, and business ethics.[1]
Freeman is best known for his 1984 work, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, in which "he traced the origins of the stakeholder idea to a number of others and suggested that businesses build their strategy around their relationships with key stakeholders."[1]
Career
Education
- Bachelor's degree, mathematics and philosophy, Duke University, 1973
- Ph.D., philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 1978[2]
Work
- 2016: Co-editor-in-chief, Journal of Business Ethics[2]
- 2004-2014: Academic director, Business Roundtable Institute of Corporate Ethics, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
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- 2011-Present: Adjunct professor of management, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2011-Present: Visiting professor, Nottingham University Business School, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- 2009-Present: Visiting professor, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2009-2010: Gourlay professor of ethics, Melbourne Business School and Trinity College, Melbourne, Australia
- 2004-Present: Adjunct professor of stakeholder management, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1987-Present: Professor, University of Virginia
- 1983-1987: Associate professor, University of Minnesota
- 1981-1983: Assistant professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- 1979-1981: Lecturer, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- 1977-1981: Various roles, The Wharton Applied Research Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- 1977-1979: Adjunct assistant professor of business, LaSalle College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1976-1977: Senior management research analyst, The Busch Center, University of Pennsylvania
Freeman has also written books and articles in a variety of publications, including The Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Management Studies, and Business and Society Review.[2] He is known for writing Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, first published in 1984.[1]
What is the stakeholder model of the corporation?
The stakeholder model of the corporation is a term referring to a theory of corporate governance that argues the firm should serve the wider interests of stakeholders rather than those of shareholders only.[3] The stakeholders in this model include shareholders, employees, creditors, suppliers, customers, and the local community, according to R. Edward Freeman, one of the scholars who developed much of the theory.[3]
Scholars often contrast the stakeholder model with the shareholder model of the corporation, which "regards the corporation as a legal instrument for shareholders to maximise [sic] their own interests—investment returns."[3]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 University of Virginia, "R. Edward Freeman," accessed February 1, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 University of Virginia, "R. Edward Freeman, CV," accessed February 1, 2021
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Corporate Governance, "Shareholding Versus Stakeholding: a critical review of corporate governance," accessed February 8, 2021
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