Talk:Stakeholdership

Stakeholdership refers to the office of or state of holding and controlling a stake in an undertaking. A Stake is an expression of interest, mainly in something of value and importance and can create more values. Such expression of interest could be a financial commitment in a business, or an expression of opinion on something that is of value. In the same way, a Stakeholder is someone who 'holds' a 'stake' in an undertaking. To have a stake in something means that the individual(s) has a personal interest in or commitment to that thing.

My knowledge of the subject was derived from my PhD research, where I used the Stakeholder Theory to construct my theoretical framework. While conducting my research and reviewing the literature, I kept being encouraged to use the word Stakeholdership, even though my computer already underlined it with a red line (meaning it is a wrong spelling) and also the fact that the word could not be found in almost every dictionary I looked at, and where it is included, it was not clearly explained and properly detailed. As my research went on, I felt the need to clarify the term Stakeholdership and to establish the connections it has with relative terms such as a Stakeholder and a Stake. Simplicity was on my mind while drawing the links between the terms and defining them the way everyone should understand what these terms are and their connections with each other.