What is a Stakeholder? http://www.stakeholdermap.com

1. Johnson, G and Scholes, K.

1.1. Those individuals or groups who depend on the organization to fulfill their own goals and on whom, in turn, the organization depends

2. Business Dictionary

2.1. A person, group, or organization that has direct or indirect stake in an organization because it can affect or be affected by the organization's actions, objectives, and policies.

3. PRINCE 2

3.1. Parties with an interest in the execution and outcome of a project. They would include business streams affected by or dependent on the outcome.

4. PMI

4.1. Stakeholders are persons or organisations (e.g., customers, sponsors, the performing organization, or the public), who are actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by the performance or completion of the project.

5. Oxford

5.1. a person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business.

6. Mirriam-Webster

6.1. 1: a person entrusted with the stakes of bettors 2: one that has a stake in an enterprise 3: one who is involved in or affected by a course of action

7. MSP

7.1. Any individual, group or organization that can affect, be affected by, or perceives itself to be affected by, a programme

8. Cambridge

8.1. a person such as an employee, customer or citizen who is involved with an organization, society, etc. and therefore has responsibilities towards it and an interest in its success

9. Eden, C and Ackermann, F.

9.1. People or small groups with the power to respond to, negotiate with, and change the strategic future of the organization

10. KEY

10.1. Book (Academic)

10.2. Method or Best Practice

10.3. Dictionary

11. Nutt, P. and Backoff, R.

11.1. All parties who will be affected by or will affect [the organization's] strategy

12. Freeman, R. E.

12.1. any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization's objectives

13. Bryson, J.

13.1. Any person group or organization that can place a claim on the organization's attention, resources, or output, or is affected by that output

14. APMP

14.1. A person or group of people who have a vested interest in the success of an organization and the environment in which the organization operates.

15. Lewis, J.P.

15.1. Anyone who has a vested interest in the project.

16. Rational Unified Process

16.1. An individual who is materially affected by the outcome of the system.

17. Stakeholdermap.com

17.1. A stakeholder is anybody who can affect or is affected by an organisation, strategy or project. They can be internal or external and they can be at senior or junior levels.

18. Wideman, R.M.

18.1. One who has a stake or interest in the outcome of the project.

19. ITIL

19.1. A person who has an interest in an organization, project, IT service etc. Stakeholders may be interested in the activities, targets, resources or deliverables. Stakeholders may include customers, partners, employees, shareholders, owners etc.

20. Carroll, A & Buchholtz, A.

20.1. A stakeholder is an individual or a group that claims to have one or more stakes in an organization. Stakeholders may affect the organization and, in turn be affected by the organization's actions, policies, practices and decisions.