Internal and external stakeholders

Stakeholders can be categorised in various ways. A common method for a non-public organisation is:

Internal Stakeholders:
Employees
Managers

Connected Stakeholders (have a contractual relationship, but not part of the day-to-day running of the company):

Distributors
Shareholders
Customers
Suppliers
Financiers
Retailers

External Stakeholders:
Government
Press/Media
Pressure Groups
Local Communities
Professional Bodies
Society

Moving to a publically owned company ie government owned:

No changes in internal stakeholders.

In connected, shareholders would become Government and customers would mostly become clients/users of the service.

External stakeholders….government not there as it has moved to connected though you can look at govern,emt as a number of ministries so one ministry could be the connected stakeholder and other ministries could be external. So, a nationalised rail system (connected = transport ministry) can affect the operations of other parts of government (eg the movement of goods and a ministry dealing with the environment).

It depends on the organisation and what you are told, but usually the government is a key player because it is the source of funds. Sometime employees might be eg militant doctors and the health service, or a heavily unionised work force such as train drivers.