Good question, Spinkles.
The stakeholders that you speak of already have input into how a company conducts its business. As a citizen, we have the right to vote for representatives that will enact laws to regulate industries. That protection is (at least in theory) our opportunity to influence the direction of the companies in our country.
Employees also have input, but in a different way. As an employee, you have the power to impact how the company conducts itself. If you know that your company is straight piping its effluent into a nearby creek, then you really need to do whatever is necessary to stop that action.
As for the manner in which you phrased it, I think you were asking if the stakeholders should be able to vote in stockholder meetings. My answer to that would be a resounding "no".
This will change.
Perhaps you watch the evening news?
Decision made years ago...at the corporate level have brought our economy to the point where it is now.
Even the mighty Greenspan...in recent interviews...has confessed his naive te'....
having assumed the economic system was self-correcting, and that greed would not be such an influence, as it is proving to be.
Of course he waited until leaving office to make his confession.
Had he said so while in office, his complaint would have been 'politically sour'.
I say the economy belongs to the people....
It's their money and they need it now.
Of course, history clearly shows extreme difficulty as the shift of expenses takes hold. Some of that shift is already at hand, as errors in manufacturing are taken to the makers of faulty goods, as well as loss of business revenues due to environmental accidents, brought on by errors 'at the pump'.
Day by day, it becomes more and more self evident...
the 'bottom line' is not the most important target for a healthy economy.
And the old guard of ceo authority, cannot be trusted at the helm.
