Vulnerable Stakeholders’ Engagement: Advancing Stakeholder Theory with New Attribute and Salience Framework

Stakeholder engagement is a central tenet for understanding and solving sustainability challenges. Given the existing stakeholder knowledge base fact that practitioners mostly focus on of high-power salience stakeholders, interests low-power vulnerable stakeholders are often manipulated. Therefore, this research devoted to stakeholders. Grounded in theory results two illustrations, we demonstrate how physical proximity influences patterns multi-stakeholder context. The contribution study conceptualisation as attribute, addition power, legitimacy, urgency, help managers identify appropriately engage with Thus, extend typologies by incorporating into attribute model. proposed model addresses paradoxical nature theories furthers agenda.