One of the most important distinctions when discussing business practices and business ethics is that between stakeholders and shareholders. While the two sound interchangeable, they are two differentiated concepts, with concern for stakeholders becoming an important point of consideration for increasingly socially conscious businesses and business models.

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SHAREHOLDER

The definition of a shareholder has remained mostly the same for the greater part of the last few centuries.

Shareholders are those who have invested in a business or company by purchasing shares of that business, and now presumably have a financial interest in that company’s success. Shareholders, then, are investors in a company, and can be anyone from active mega-investors who hope to influence the actions of the company they are investing in to passive investors who are throwing a few weeks salary into a company in preparation for retirement.

Shareholders, then, are very interested in the monetary valuation of a company or business, as that monetary valuation directly affects that shareholder’s investment. They would prefer the company take actions that will increase its share price, increase dividends, and generally take actions that improve their own financial positions.

Perhaps the most important aspect of shareholders is that their investment in the company is liquid, and often temporary. An investor can buy a share in a company today, and then that share off tomorrow in hopes of a quick profit. That investor can then invest their money in any other company, then becoming a shareholder in a perhaps completely unrelated and separate enterprise.