Specifications that use this resource:

Teaching guide: stakeholder mapping

Categorises stakeholders in terms of their relative power and interest.

Model/theory

Key points

Highlights that not all stakeholders are equal – they vary in terms of power and influence. This might affect the way a business communicates with different groups and how much attention is paid to their views.

When you can use this

When discussing the power and influence of stakeholders, how stakeholders may affect decision making and how managers may treat different groups you might want to consider:

  • the factors that affect the power and influence of different stakeholder groups
  • how a business might treat different groups according to their power and interest (eg how much information they provide)
  • how stakeholders might increase their power (eg employees coming together in a trade union).

Where it's been used

  • Q 21, A-level paper 1, 2018
  • Q2, A-level paper 1, 2017
  • Q3, AS paper 1, 2017

Specifications that use this resource: