ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author begins with his recollection of the Arctic project to highlight complementary dictums of stakeholder inclusion in the context of sustainable organizing. Sustainability discourse is thus characterized by multiple, often-competing stakeholder voices and interests, giving rise to different sets of meaning that make sense according to stakeholders’ diverse positionalities. In some cases, mere public articulations of sustainability agendas can mobilize stakeholders and force organizations (and politicians) to action, regardless of their original intent. The author outlines how stakeholder inclusion may be conceptualized in each of these scholarship traditions, arranging them along two parameters of stakeholder inclusion. Along the vertical axis, he considers the primary stakeholder interests being served, ranging from the interests of the organization itself to broader, more collective social and ecological interests. The second parameter is the locus of enactment, traced on the horizontal axis, which might range from the organization itself to a broader dispersal of stakeholders.
