R. Edward Freeman is Olsson Professor of Business Administration and Co-Director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden School, University of Virginia. He is Adjunct Professor of Stakeholder Management at the Copenhagen Business School. Professor Freeman's new book, Managing for Stakeholders, co-authored with Jeffrey Harrison and Andrew Wicks, was published in 2007 by Yale University Press. In 1984 he published Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, where he traced the origins of the stakeholder idea and suggested that businesses build their strategy around their relationships with key stakeholders. He was awarded an honorary doctorate, Doctor Honoris Causa, by Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, and has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Washington University.
'R. Edward Freeman's book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, is THE seminal book in the field. It is the authoritative source that created the field and has had immeasurable impact on scholars, executives, and students. Ed Freeman is clearly the Father of Stakeholder Theory/Management/Approach.' Archie B. Carroll, Director, Nonprofit Program and Professor Emeritus, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia 'Freeman's Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach helped to define and shape our understanding of how good management practice really is based on relationships - relationships with the stakeholders who both comprise and affect or are affected by the business. This seminal book's message that these relationships are fundamental to success has become part of the DNA of progressive and socially sustainable companies, and has influenced new generations of scholars and managers.' Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy, Professor of Management, Boston College