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Stakeholders in business organisations

What are stakeholders?

1.1 Definition

A stakeholder is an individual who has an interest in what the
organisation does, or who affects, or can be affected by, the
organisation’s actions.

1.2 Types of stakeholder

There are three categories of stakeholder.

Internal e.g.
employees and

managers

Connected, External,
e.g. e.g. local

shareholders, community,
customers and government

suppliers

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