“Stakeholders” and its conflicting meanings: a problem for cultural heritage studies?
<p>The word ‘stakeholders’ is a common term that museum and cultural heritage professionals use to describe all those that might be engaged to advance their understanding about a culture, artwork, object or site of cultural significance. This definition is somewhat at odds with earlier meanings. The word was first documented in 1708 when it was used in England to describe a person who holds wagers of a gamble[1]. This sole definition persisted for about 250 years: Webster’s unabridged dictionary from 1953 gives the definition for ‘stakeholder’ in today’s language: <em>noun</em>. <em>One who holds stakes when a wager is made by others and pays it to the winner</em>. According to the economist R. Edward Freeman, the author of Strategic Management: </p>
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