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So, this scenario states:
20% shares held by institutional investors
20% by employees and pensioners of the company
30% by the family who founded the company
rest is public
- the board is majority family members who are very active in day to day management
- a trade union rep works for the company and sits on the local council
- factory area is surrounded by expensive houses with affluent residents
- these residents have complained to the local council for smells coming from the factory due to a new and profitable widget
- in the area of the factory, the co is a large business and there are very few other businesses in the area
Q: analyze the principal stakeholders within the context 15 marks
i wrote:
Family - high power/high interest
residents - low power/high interest
trade union rep - high power/high interest
institutional investors: hi power because they can disinvest if company gets a bad reputation due to negative publicity/high interest
local council - may get dragged into a power position if residents urge/hi interest
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the answer had:
trade union rep - hi power/hi interest
affluent residents - low power/hi interest
other residents
institutional investors - lo power/hi interest
customers - potential hi power/lo interest
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my question:
1. why is the family NOT a principal stakeholder?
2. why are institutional investors low power?
3. why is the local council not a principal stakeholder?
4. hi/lo interest: what is interest? is it the level of involvement? please explain.
thank u!!!
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Mr. Mendelow
There can be different interptrtations and assumptions about power and influence and what's important is how you argue for where your position them.
I would certainly have put family as high/high.
Local concil might have little power over the company - it depends on local laws.
Institutional investors could wellhave high power and influence. For example, one fund might have 10% and in practice that has power even though it could not stop any vote.
Interest = how active a party is likely to be trying to enforce its wishes - even if has no power to do so. Power is whether it can actually do anything to enforce its wishes.
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