PUBLICATIONS

Clark-Hamel, S. D., Bischoff, L., & Sun, Z. (Forthcoming). Bittersweet Symphony: A Music Theory Approach to Stakeholder Dissonance and Value Creation. Journal of Management.

  • Earlier version selected for Best Paper Proceedings of the 2025 Academy of Management

Freeman, R. E., Menghwar, P., & Clark-Hamel, S. D. (Forthcoming). A Stakeholder Perspective on Social Entrepreneurship: Toward Stakeholder Entrepreneurship. In Handbook of Social Entrepreneurship Research. De Gruyter.

UNDER REVISION OR REVIEW

Phillips, R. A., Clark-Hamel, S. D., & Freeman, R. E. [Moral Responsibility & Stakeholder Identification]. Under review at Business & Society.

WORKING PAPERS

Clark-Hamel, S. D. A Stakeholder-Centric Approach to Identifying Competitors. (Job Market Paper. Target: Academy of Management Review)

  • Existing approaches generally identify competitors through industries, strategic similarity, managerial cognition, or customer choice. This paper develops a stakeholder-centric approach in which competitors are identified through the alternative firms considered by employees, suppliers, communities, investors, and other stakeholders.

Clark-Hamel, S. D. Competing for Stakeholders: A Process Theory of Utility Function Transformation. (Dissertation Chapter. Target: Academy of Management Review)

  • This paper develops a process theory explaining how competition changes the criteria stakeholders use to evaluate firms. It theorizes how comparisons among firms can introduce new attributes, reweight existing preferences, and transform stakeholder utility functions over time.

Parmar, B. L. & Clark-Hamel, S. D. Stakeholder Relationships. (Target: Academy of Management Review)

  • This paper develops a process theory of stakeholder relationships, drawing on interdependence theory to explain how patterns of interaction, dependence, and mutual adjustment shape relationships over time.

Menghwar, P., Becker, J., Clark-Hamel, S. D., & Freeman, R. E. Global Stakeholder Capitalism. (Target: Corporate Governance: An International Review special issue on Stakeholder Governance)

  • This paper compares corporate law and business practice across G20 economies to examine how stakeholder capitalism emerges through both regulation and voluntary corporate action.

SELECTED WORKS IN PROGRESS

Clark-Hamel, S. D., Yu, T., & Hsu, G. Country Music Radio and Competition. (Data collection)

  • A longitudinal study examining why female artists have increasingly disappeared from country radio, with particular attention to how competition among radio stations shapes airplay decisions.

Clark-Hamel, S. D. An Ethnographic Study of Competing for Stakeholders. (Dissertation chapter; data collection)

  • An ethnographic study examining how competition for stakeholder relationships emerges and evolves outside firms' traditional product markets.

Clark-Hamel, S. D. An Experimental Study of Stakeholder Evaluations. (Dissertation Chapter. Target: Strategic Management Journal or Academy of Management Journal)

  • An experimental study examining how information about rival firms changes stakeholder evaluations and managerial decisions.

Clark-Hamel, S. D. The Ethics of Competing for Stakeholders. (Conceptual project in development)

  • A conceptual study of the ethical implications of firms competing to attract, retain, and influence stakeholders, including tensions between stakeholder choice, firm power, and value creation.