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🎓 TAOM - Turkish Academy of Management Webinar Series-5

Naturalistic Stakeholder Theory: A New Paradigm for Strategic Management

📅 Date: November 11, 2025
🕗 Time: 8:00 PM (Istanbul Time)
⏳ Duration: 90 minutes (including Q&A)
🔗 Registration (Zoom): https://zoom.us/meeting/register/FFajaeh9SLihDF_1-Ryxsw

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Webinar Overview

This session will explore Naturalistic Stakeholder Theory, an innovative framework that redefines how organizations understand strategy, morality, and the evolution of stakeholder relationships.

Building on the seminal article by Bridoux & Stoelhorst (2022), "Stakeholder Theory, Strategy, and Organization: Past, Present, and Future,"the webinar will examine how evolutionary and behavioral perspectives can strengthen stakeholder theory and reconnect strategy with social welfare and legitimacy.

Participants will gain insights into how this naturalistic paradigm integrates descriptive realism with normative insights, offering a more holistic understanding of organizational dynamics within complex socio-ecological systems.

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🎙️ Guest Speaker

Prof. Jan-Willem Stoelhorst
Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam

Prof. Stoelhorst is one of Europe's leading scholars in strategic management and stakeholder theory. His research investigates how evolutionary and behavioral theories explain firm strategy, governance, and social value creation.
He has published in:

• Academy of Management Review

• Strategic Management Journal

• Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
  and serves on the Editorial Board of Academy of Management Review.

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📘 Reference Reading

Bridoux, F., & Stoelhorst, J. W. (2022). Stakeholder Theory, Strategy, and Organization: Past, Present, and Future.Strategic Organization, 20(4), 797–809.

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Cenk Sozen
Full Professor
Turkish Academy of Management
Ankara
+905394731711
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