Stakeholder

1. Corporate social responsibility - company law - corporate governance.

Stakeholders are all the people and bodies who have a legitimate interest in an organisation's activities, including shareholders but also covering a much wider group of interest holders.

One important group of stakeholders are lenders - also known as debt investors.

The term Stakeholders may be defined very broadly, and the breadth of its definition has been increasing over time.

In the business context, stakeholders are normally considered to include, as a minimum, shareholders, lenders and employees.

2. Gambling.

A trusted independent party with whom the gamblers lodge the amounts bet, until the outcome of the bet is determined.

See also

• Bond
• Capital
• Company law
• Corporate governance
• Corporate social responsibility
• Employee
• Equity
• Financial reporting
• Interest
• Loan
• Member
• Section 172
• Share
• Shareholder
• Shareholder value
• Shareholders’ funds
• Shareholders’ wealth
• Stakeholder analysis
• Stakeholder governance
• Stakeholder pension scheme
• Stakeholder value
• Sustainability
• Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures