Today's successful companies are those that recognise that they have responsibilities to stakeholders that go beyond mere compliance with the law or meeting the fiduciary responsibility inherent in maximizing returns. This book focuses on engaging stakeholders for long-term value creation

According to S. Venkataraman, value is discovered (orcreated) when the entrepreneur productively combines resources, ideas, andstakeholders in order to bring new goods and services into existence. Entrepreneurship theory works in conjunction with ethics, which is concernedwith the methods used...