This is a short note describing a work in progress to explain how business organizations should behave in the context of both market place and society. These behaviors would be described as the two most important imperatives of business organizations; the first is the imperative of sustainable...

In this paper I illustrate a simple informal model to explain how a firm or business organization in its efforts in conducting innovation, may affect the welfare of a stakeholder. In this simple model, time is partitioned into three periods and the business organization’s effort to innovate...

In this paper I illustrate my simple thoughts on what I argue to be empty and vague concepts of 'responsibility' and 'engagement'. I argue that 'responsibility' and 'engagement' are aspirations of the hegemonic stakeholders that are imposed to the subaltern stakeholders. In other words the...

In this paper I outline a process of stakeholder engagement from the point of view of the customer of a business organization in the context of a purchase transaction. This process or model has 2 main components. The first is time, which is divided into 3 periods: before purchase, after purchase...

In this paper I consider a framework to analyse how a firm may engage with a stakeholder with regards to responsible business innovation. In this simple framework, I present how a weak and relatively powerless stakeholder and a more powerful firm interact with each other, given that the firm has...

In this paper I reconsider and update a conference paper on the construction of case study questions from DiMaggio and Powell’s (1983) hypotheses. In this paper I reconsider case study questions that are derived from DiMaggio and Powell’s (1983) hypotheses in a more detailed manner. I will...

This paper is a continuation from the previous paper: A Consideration of DiMaggio and Powell's (1983) Hypotheses. Continuing from that previous paper, I reconsider case study questions derived from Meyer and Rowan's (1977) propositions in a detailed manner. I also consider issues of measurement...

In this paper, we review some theoretical propositions related to isomorphism, diffusion and decoupling to study Malaysian organizations, particularly those organizations that are currently engaged in R&D activities and doing innovation related to emerging technological applications such as...

In this paper I present a tentative methodology to analyze how a firm engages with one of its subaltern stakeholders. This methodology has two main components. The first is to identify and analyze the voice of that stakeholder. The second is to analyze the respond of the firm to the...

In this paper I outline a simple and naïve framework that may be used to analyze how a firm engages with a stakeholder. In this simple framework, I present how a weak and relatively powerless stakeholder and a more powerful firm interact with each other, given that the firm has violated an...