Drawing primarily on the business ethics/corporate responsibility and strategic management/management literatures, Phillips (management, Robins School of Business, U. of Richmond) and Freeman (business administration, Darden School, U. of Virginia) present 35 of the "most important and insightful" writings in the development of stakeholder theory, which they suggest began in 1984 with the publication of Freeman's own Strategic Management; A Stakeholder Approach (an excerpt of which is included here as the first chapter). In addition to general developments in stakeholder theory, the volume addresses such topics as corporate governance, stakeholder-agency theory, management models, ethical theory, and stakeholder orientation. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)