“Let the Water Speak” Using Fictional Writing to Revisit Stakeholder Theories and Give a Voice to Invisibilized Stakeholders

Understanding the dynamic relationships of the entities that have the most impact on an organization—or that the organization impacts the most—is at the core of stakeholder management approaches. In this article, we present an experiential exercise that provides a creative practical, low-overhead, d...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inManagement teaching review Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 243 - 252
Main Authors Agogué, Marine, Blanche, Charlotte
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2024
Subjects
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

Loading…
Abstract Understanding the dynamic relationships of the entities that have the most impact on an organization—or that the organization impacts the most—is at the core of stakeholder management approaches. In this article, we present an experiential exercise that provides a creative practical, low-overhead, discussion-oriented classroom activity to engage in a critical examination of the concept of stakeholders. This exercise is especially effective for the stakeholders usually invisibilized. Rather than relying on presenting stakeholder theory, this exercise uses fictional writing as a way for students to give a voice to water, a most often invisibilized stakeholder on an academic campus. The activity encourages reflection on the perception we hold toward certain stakeholders and aims to raise awareness toward the underrepresentation of some of them despite the centrality of their contribution to the organization. The exercise also enables students to grasp that there are limits when trying to speak on behalf of someone or something that structurally does not have a voice. This exercise can be used at the graduate level. Recommendations for adapting the exercise to the large classes are included.
AbstractList Understanding the dynamic relationships of the entities that have the most impact on an organization—or that the organization impacts the most—is at the core of stakeholder management approaches. In this article, we present an experiential exercise that provides a creative practical, low-overhead, discussion-oriented classroom activity to engage in a critical examination of the concept of stakeholders. This exercise is especially effective for the stakeholders usually invisibilized. Rather than relying on presenting stakeholder theory, this exercise uses fictional writing as a way for students to give a voice to water, a most often invisibilized stakeholder on an academic campus. The activity encourages reflection on the perception we hold toward certain stakeholders and aims to raise awareness toward the underrepresentation of some of them despite the centrality of their contribution to the organization. The exercise also enables students to grasp that there are limits when trying to speak on behalf of someone or something that structurally does not have a voice. This exercise can be used at the graduate level. Recommendations for adapting the exercise to the large classes are included.
Author Agogué, Marine
Blanche, Charlotte
Author_xml – sequence: 1
  givenname: Marine
  orcidid: 0000-0003-0110-7371
  surname: Agogué
  fullname: Agogué, Marine
– sequence: 2
  givenname: Charlotte
  surname: Blanche
  fullname: Blanche, Charlotte
BookMark eNp90EFOAjEUBuDGYCIiB3DXCwy2U4Zpl4YIkpCYKMhy0mlfoTBOSVtJdMVB9HKcRCa4IDFx9V7-5PsX_zVq1a4GhG4p6VGa53cpy0UqOE0ZTQmjnFygdpMlTdg6-69QN4Q1IYQOCGGcttH-sP-aQsRxBXghI3j8sgW5Oey_8TzYeolHVkXralnhhbexSaLDz7CzwUb8EuUGVq7SRzdbgfMWApa1xmO7Ayzxq7MKGjCpG1Dayn6CPmfhBl0aWQXo_t4Omo8eZsPHZPo0ngzvp4miGY1JKXLDQTDO-ECWKWMpZyITRvK-ZkLmXJZaCWVKI_qqXzKic5NlQg-01IIzxTqInnqVdyF4MMXW2zfpPwpKimbF4s-KR9M7mSCXUKzduz_uEP4BPwegdyA
Cites_doi 10.1080/00208825.1992.11656584
10.1177/0149206321993576
10.3166/rfg303.69-84
10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.11.052
10.1002/bse.3168
10.2307/258887
10.1177/1350507620978860
10.1108/20408021111162191
10.3917/vaca.054.0040
10.1007/BF00881435
ContentType Journal Article
Copyright The Author(s) 2023
Copyright_xml – notice: The Author(s) 2023
DBID AAYXX
CITATION
DOI 10.1177/23792981231203180
DatabaseName CrossRef
DatabaseTitle CrossRef
DatabaseTitleList CrossRef

DeliveryMethod fulltext_linktorsrc
Discipline Business
EISSN 2379-2981
EndPage 252
ExternalDocumentID 10_1177_23792981231203180
10.1177_23792981231203180
GrantInformation_xml – fundername: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  grantid: 430-2020-01035
  funderid: https://doi.org/501100000155
GroupedDBID .2L
0R~
1~K
31W
31X
54M
56W
5VS
AADIR
AAJPV
AARIX
AATAA
AAUIH
AAZCK
ABAWP
ABCCA
ABFXH
ABPNF
ABQPY
ABQXT
ABRHV
ACDXX
ACFUR
ACFZE
ACGFS
ACLZU
ACOXC
ACROE
ACSIQ
ACTQU
ACUIR
ACZOB
ADRRZ
ADTOS
AEDXQ
AERDR
AESZF
AEUHG
AEUIJ
AEVPJ
AEWDL
AEWHI
AFKRG
AFMOU
AFQAA
AFUIA
AGDVU
AGKLV
AGNHF
AGNWV
AGUGZ
AHWHD
AIOMO
AJUZI
ALFTD
ALMA_UNASSIGNED_HOLDINGS
ANDLU
ARTOV
ARYUH
ATKJL
AUTPY
AUVAJ
AYPQM
B8T
B8Z
BDZRT
BMVBW
BPACV
DG~
DV7
DV8
EBS
EJD
FHBDP
GROUPED_SAGE_PREMIER_JOURNAL_COLLECTION
H13
J8X
JCYGO
M4V
O9-
Q7P
ROL
SCNPE
SFC
SFK
SFT
SGU
SGV
SHB
SPP
SSDHQ
ZPLXX
ZPPRI
AAYXX
ACJER
CITATION
ID FETCH-LOGICAL-c151t-b97f8e938386ab233283959fa84d39a78abdc9cfbf94c4b30d7f559d6dad983c3
ISSN 2379-2981
IngestDate Fri Dec 06 09:11:46 EST 2024
Sun Aug 18 05:40:28 EDT 2024
IsPeerReviewed false
IsScholarly false
Issue 3
Keywords experiential exercise
fictional writing
invisibilization
stakeholders
Language English
LinkModel OpenURL
MergedId FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-c151t-b97f8e938386ab233283959fa84d39a78abdc9cfbf94c4b30d7f559d6dad983c3
ORCID 0000-0003-0110-7371
PageCount 10
ParticipantIDs crossref_primary_10_1177_23792981231203180
sage_journals_10_1177_23792981231203180
PublicationCentury 2000
PublicationDate 20240900
PublicationDateYYYYMMDD 2024-09-01
PublicationDate_xml – month: 9
  year: 2024
  text: 20240900
PublicationDecade 2020
PublicationPlace Los Angeles, CA
PublicationPlace_xml – name: Los Angeles, CA
PublicationTitle Management teaching review
PublicationYear 2024
Publisher SAGE Publications
Publisher_xml – name: SAGE Publications
References Starik 1995; 14
Gond, Mercier 2006; 2
Santoro, Bertoldi, Giachino, Candelo 2020; 119
Dayre, Gauthier 2020
Freeman, Dmytriyev, Phillips 2021; 47
Aït-Touati 2011
Donaldson, Preston 1995; 20
Marcon Nora, Alberton, Ayala 2022; 32
Alvarez, Merchán 1992; 22
Latour 1996; 47
Adams, Heijltjes, Jack, Marjoribanks, Powell 2011; 2
Painter, Pérezts, Deslandes 2021; 52
Julliot, Lenglet, Rouquet 2022; 303
Latour B. (bibr11-23792981231203180) 1996; 47
bibr1-23792981231203180
bibr5-23792981231203180
bibr13-23792981231203180
bibr10-23792981231203180
bibr3-23792981231203180
Freeman R. E. (bibr6-23792981231203180) 1984
bibr15-23792981231203180
bibr9-23792981231203180
bibr2-23792981231203180
bibr12-23792981231203180
bibr7-23792981231203180
Dayre E. (bibr4-23792981231203180) 2020
Gond J. P. (bibr8-23792981231203180) 2006; 2
bibr14-23792981231203180
References_xml – volume: 119
  start-page: 142
  year: 2020
  end-page: 150
  article-title: Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurial resilience and success: The moderating role of stakeholders’ engagement
  publication-title: Journal of Business Research
  contributor:
    fullname: Candelo
– year: 2020
  article-title: L’art de chercher; l’enseignement superieur face à la recherche creation
  publication-title: Hermann Éditeurs
  contributor:
    fullname: Gauthier
– volume: 2
  start-page: 165
  issue: 1
  year: 2011
  end-page: 171
  article-title: The development of leaders able to respond to climate change and sustainability challenges: The role of business schools
  publication-title: Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal
  contributor:
    fullname: Powell
– volume: 52
  start-page: 203
  issue: 2
  year: 2021
  end-page: 223
  article-title: Understanding the human in stakeholder theory: A phenomenological approach to affect-based learning
  publication-title: Management Learning
  contributor:
    fullname: Deslandes
– volume: 32
  start-page: 673
  year: 2022
  end-page: 685
  article-title: Stakeholder theory and actor-network theory: The stakeholder engagement in energy transitions
  publication-title: Business Strategy and the Environment
  contributor:
    fullname: Ayala
– volume: 22
  start-page: 27
  issue: 3
  year: 1992
  end-page: 45
  article-title: The role of narrative fiction in the development of imagination for action
  publication-title: International Studies of Management & Organization
  contributor:
    fullname: Merchán
– volume: 14
  start-page: 207
  issue: 3
  year: 1995
  end-page: 217
  article-title: Should trees have managerial standing? Toward stakeholder status for non-human nature
  publication-title: Journal of Business Ethics
  contributor:
    fullname: Starik
– volume: 2
  start-page: 917
  year: 2006
  end-page: 925
  article-title: La théorie des parties prenantes
  publication-title: Encyclopédie des Ressources Humaines
  contributor:
    fullname: Mercier
– volume: 47
  start-page: 1757
  issue: 7
  year: 2021
  end-page: 1770
  article-title: Stakeholder theory and the resource-based view of the firm
  publication-title: Journal of Management
  contributor:
    fullname: Phillips
– start-page: 40
  year: 2011
  end-page: 41
  article-title: Ceci n’est pas une fiction: Les fictions de la science ou la fabrique des faits
  publication-title: Vacarme
  contributor:
    fullname: Aït-Touati
– volume: 20
  start-page: 65
  issue: 1
  year: 1995
  end-page: 91
  article-title: The stakeholder theory of the corporation: Concepts, evidence, and implications
  publication-title: Academy of management Review
  contributor:
    fullname: Preston
– volume: 303
  start-page: 71
  year: 2022
  end-page: 83
  article-title: Peut-on appliquer les œuvres de fiction aux sciences de gestion?
  publication-title: Revue Française de Gestion
  contributor:
    fullname: Rouquet
– volume: 47
  start-page: 369
  year: 1996
  end-page: 381
  article-title: On actor-network theory: A few clarifications
  publication-title: Soziale Welt
  contributor:
    fullname: Latour
– ident: bibr3-23792981231203180
  doi: 10.1080/00208825.1992.11656584
– ident: bibr7-23792981231203180
  doi: 10.1177/0149206321993576
– ident: bibr9-23792981231203180
  doi: 10.3166/rfg303.69-84
– ident: bibr14-23792981231203180
  doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.11.052
– volume: 47
  start-page: 369
  year: 1996
  ident: bibr11-23792981231203180
  publication-title: Soziale Welt
  contributor:
    fullname: Latour B.
– year: 2020
  ident: bibr4-23792981231203180
  publication-title: Hermann Éditeurs
  contributor:
    fullname: Dayre E.
– ident: bibr12-23792981231203180
  doi: 10.1002/bse.3168
– volume-title: Strategic management, a stakeholder approach
  year: 1984
  ident: bibr6-23792981231203180
  contributor:
    fullname: Freeman R. E.
– volume: 2
  start-page: 917
  year: 2006
  ident: bibr8-23792981231203180
  publication-title: Encyclopédie des Ressources Humaines
  contributor:
    fullname: Gond J. P.
– ident: bibr5-23792981231203180
  doi: 10.2307/258887
– ident: bibr10-23792981231203180
– ident: bibr13-23792981231203180
  doi: 10.1177/1350507620978860
– ident: bibr1-23792981231203180
  doi: 10.1108/20408021111162191
– ident: bibr2-23792981231203180
  doi: 10.3917/vaca.054.0040
– ident: bibr15-23792981231203180
  doi: 10.1007/BF00881435
SSID ssj0001600381
Score 1.940954
Snippet Understanding the dynamic relationships of the entities that have the most impact on an organization—or that the organization impacts the most—is at the core...
SourceID crossref
sage
SourceType Aggregation Database
Publisher
StartPage 243
Title “Let the Water Speak” Using Fictional Writing to Revisit Stakeholder Theories and Give a Voice to Invisibilized Stakeholders
URI https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23792981231203180
Volume 9
hasFullText 1
inHoldings 1
isFullTextHit
isPrint
link http://utb.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwnV3NbhMxELZCKiEuqPyJQkE-ICERbZWsnV37GFWUgigC0dJyirz-aauibNVsLj3lNZDg5fokzHjtzYa0EuWyipzMSOv5Mh57vhkT8spmqq8Nl0khTJ5wPtTgBwVLcljtMoalnb6R9t6nbPeAfzgaHnU6P1uspVlVbOnLa-tK_seqMAZ2xSrZW1i2UQoD8BnsC0-wMDz_ycaRqbD90fqSxN6hwp6HX8-tOovfwRbPHwfsnOpw7HeIfYywSKr0mYHpaYUh55nFRBRI-2p92D_7tMI7JBap3rcS_AkKvJ-gABJqL-tINYpN21HuglPTqyJb82IpCTE6Lo9ndZI-VAy18_s_AIontmEDlJGNFE4nUt7Qr4ITS1kuk1TW17Js2WvGgheWLbCxtketuziFxTmt292u-n2feUbFqBdi1hSdVX-xyMXE_l9rX8NIHIS25ysq7pA17LHIu2Rt9P3zl73FAV7ms6z-8sLwPiFrjg29VvQsxT0t0qCPY_bXyf2wAaGjGk0PSMdOHpK7sf7hEZlfzX8BnCjAiXo4UQ-nq_lv6oFEGyDRACRalTQAibYQQSOQKACJIpCooh5IKLAEpLbY9DE52Hm7v72bhGs6Eg3hYpUUMnfCSiaYyFSRMgYRqxxKpwQ3TKpcqMJoqV3hJNe8YH2TO9jHmswoIwXT7AnpTsqJfUqoNEOYasGcc5r3QYPOnIG1PB2wAR9ouUHexEkcn9fdWMY3Wm6DvMZpHoc_7PTmXz67jdrn5N4C6JukW13M7AsITKviZYDIH0B0hmY
link.rule.ids 314,780,784,27924,27925
linkProvider SAGE Publications
openUrl ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=%E2%80%9CLet+the+Water+Speak%E2%80%9D+Using+Fictional+Writing+to+Revisit+Stakeholder+Theories+and+Give+a+Voice+to+Invisibilized+Stakeholders&rft.jtitle=Management+teaching+review&rft.au=Agogu%C3%A9%2C+Marine&rft.au=Blanche%2C+Charlotte&rft.date=2024-09-01&rft.issn=2379-2981&rft.eissn=2379-2981&rft.volume=9&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=243&rft.epage=252&rft_id=info:doi/10.1177%2F23792981231203180&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID=10_1177_23792981231203180
thumbnail_l http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/lc.gif&issn=2379-2981&client=summon
thumbnail_m http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/mc.gif&issn=2379-2981&client=summon
thumbnail_s http://covers-cdn.summon.serialssolutions.com/index.aspx?isbn=/sc.gif&issn=2379-2981&client=summon